Thread:Cod1/@comment-26570972-20180319181236/@comment-1200923-20180321151544

KGBSpetsnaz wrote: Cod1 wrote: “The Rus' (Slavic: Русь, Greek: Ῥῶς) were an early medieval group, who lived in modern Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other countries, and are the ancestors of modern Russians and other Eastern European ethnicities. The Rus came from what is today Roslagen of modern day Sweden.”

Russians, and other east slavs are actually closer related to Scandinavian people!

I don’t know how common Slav + mediterranean or slav + german or northern european relationships are thought.

I think that's debatable considering Slavs in general tend to have dark hair, dark eyes, and more dramatic features whereas Germanic (including Scandinavian) people tend to have lighter hair and eyes and softer features.

Also, my parents and grandparents always told me that the Slavs are more alike the Mediterranean and Latin people as far as cultural or physical resemblance goes.

Based on what I’ve seen and heard, some of the things you wrote are actually not completely true. I think what you wrote is more true for South Slavs (I.E. Slovenians, Serbians, Montenegrins), but less true for West, and East Slavs (I.E. Russians, Poles, Belarusians, Slovakians). Germanic (including Scandinavian) people due tend to have lighter hair and eyes than South Slavs, but the percentage of people with lighter hair and eyes among West and East Slavs isn’t very different from Germanics. Germanics are also know for having stronger, and more chiseled facial features than West and East Slavs. That’s actually why a lot of people I know prefer Russian and Polish women over German women, because German women usually have more stronger, more “manly looking faces”, while Polish and Russian women usually have cute softer faces.