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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, the women in my family often have that Slavic combo, but he's in the USA.
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 well, some places have a lot of poles and serbs and such, but yes, not very widespread
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Even among them, it's a minority.
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 in yugoslavia it's probably about 30% and there is a lot of blondes there as well, and a small population of reds
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, it's not even accurate to call it a minority... 

in the balkans there isn't a majority of anything as far as ethnotypes go, it's the most mixed ethnicities in a single countrty anywhere, this is part of the reason why they have a very different view of government there, because such diversity combined with "representative democracy is a failure

in bulgaria, about 10% are turks, 15% are cigani, about 20% are russian type, if not recent immigrants as you find in the east, about 30% are the classic dark hair dark skin, and about 25% are the dark/blue and redheads... there is even a tiny number, maybe 1-2%, of people with literal afro hair, and a lot of them have blue eyes (one of my best mates was like this)
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's a hybrid thing I guess... There is smaller odds of inbreeding when the gene pools are distant, and mixes of widely different genes tends to produce greater vigor and resilience.