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I am a mongolian living in Japan. The truth is , japans in Northern Japan are not original from there. Original inhabitants of Hokkaido and North Honshyu are Ainus from Tungusic origin who lost significant population after japanese *genocide* on them during Edo Period. The modern japan is a nation of mixed ethnic groups from China, Korea, and also Polynesians and very few ainus i think. You will never see blonde japanese in Japan.  But i bother that their language can be better compared to altaic languages than chinese.    

The blond, blue-eyed palefaces are a mutation of homo apiens that came out of A ice-time refugia less than 10.000 years ago.

During this refugia only a very small number of people had survived - living in isolation frm other people - on a limited area, for a VERY long time - to develop he characteristics of the arctic blondes. Since the end ofice-time they populated the northern hemisprere of Eurasia - in two major branches; one eastern and one western.

The eastern original are still present in some of the Uralc populations - such as Finns and Estonians, who are still domnantly blonde. The western branch turned into Goths and Celts, wereof some Scadinavian communities are still dominantly blonde. But only in the far north do we still find these "native blonds".

While the ancient caucasians populated and cultivated the northern parts of Eurasia they also connected to the old cultures uth of the Alps and Caucasian mountains. Thus we still find their traces in the Spanish, Italian, Greek, Anatolian, Persian a Indian populations- to various degrees.

Meanwhile the climate improved radically - and tropical or mixed (sub-tropic) populations started to migrate into the sub-arctic areas - north of the mountain-ranges from the Pyrenees to the Himalaya. Connection made these migrations started to reach further a further north - making more and more people in Uraine, Russia and northern Europe dark haired and brown-eyed.

Thus we find the arctical haplogroup R1 in various forms from Marocco to China, while the tropical E3 now have spread to Carelia as well as Norway, leading to a transformation of the northern populations back to their tropical origin - with pigmented skin, dark hair and brown eyes...






Edited by Boreasi - 16-Dec-2008 at 07:24

Originally posted by zukline According to many contemporaty historians including Rashid-Ad-Din and Abu Ghazi and to some degree Kazakh legends Ghenghis Khaan had Blonde or Yellowish Hair and Blue/Green Eyes, although he seems to have had a Mongoloid skull system. Modern Kazakhs even say that when pure Kazakh child is born with blue eyes they see it as a sign of being "Tore" Clan child which means descendent of Genghisid line.     Some historians including a famous Kazakh historian claim Ghenghis Khaan had even red beards like Tamerlane. Many Mongol chieftains and aristocrats had Yellow hair including Jebe, Zelme and many more. Genghis Khaans descendants also had yellow hair and blueish green eyes until it was lost on Khubilai.   The first Jungar chieftan Esen Taishi who united All Mongols and declared himself Khaan is depicted in his painting completely blue eyed?   And there are a lot of Mongols in modern Mongolian Western and Northern regions with yellowish blonde hair or sandy hair.   Jetisu region or Easter Kazakhstan also have very high occurence of yellow hair and green eye occurrences.   But why and how they became like that in very short time?   To read about the possible cause read here: http://www.geocities.com/eyecolourchange

Originally posted by mpower   This is all BS, who is Abu Ghazi, there is nobody with such a name. Besides "Novgorod chronicle" of XIII century clearly states the physical features of Mongols (they call Tatar), which is purely asiatic with black eyes and dark hair, stocky though built features.   Also as one of you said here, Rashid-ad-Din never saw Genghis khan himself. Esen taishi of Oirats cannot have had blue eye, this is again BS, if you are refering to a painting tell me which painting it was.

Originally posted by Sarmat Genghiz khan is depicted as a person with light eyes and red hair by Rashid ad Din, which is perhaps the most complete source on early Mongol history. Perhaps he didn't see Genghiz himself but he knew much more about the subject than anyone else.

That's not entirely accurate. Rashid ad-Din worked exclusively from secondary sources. He borrowed most of his information from Juvaini, who as an official at the Mongol court (and, eventually, the Mongol governor of Baghdad) was better placed to note any peculiarities about Genghis Khan's family (although he didn't meet Genghis either - he worked for Guyuk). Juvaini doesn't mention Genghis or any of his family members being blond.

It is, of course, impossible to verify what Genghis Khan's hair or eye colour was, since there aren't even any contemporary portraits of him to draw from. But I have to say that it would be very easy for a legend like this to spring up from nothing. People like to attribute meaning to anything unusual, which is why redheads or lefties are supposed to have particular personality traits. Light-haired children were sufficiently rare in Asia that they would have been considered somehow special, and what could be more special than being descendants of the great Khan?