Do Greeks looks like Persians?

TeldeIndus, sorry i'm curious, why do you put the word "Telde-" in your nickname?

Originally posted by Ikki TeldeIndus, sorry i'm curious, why do you put the word "Telde-" in your nickname?

Hi Ikki, It's two words in Pashto (language spoken in NWFP province in Pakistan). Tel (always) and de (from), sometimes it's translated as forever, so it doesnt make much sense and I didnt give it much thought to be honest  

It is impossible to say Greeks look like Persians and persians look like greeks.. In this day and age there has been soo much mixing of populations that the line between ethnicities is become blurred. I have seen many iranians that look -arabic/ greek/ mongolid/ turkic/ and ofcourse persian. . But in a way when i look at some greeks they look persian aswell.

Many people ask us iranians in Australia if we are greek or italian, and it is the same for all other meditereanean looking peoples, but i think us iranians can easily tell, also greeks aswell can tell the difference. Although the difference is not easy to tell as say between greeks and sweedes. But it is there non the less. . .

Same here too but it whas little bit foolish I whas stopped in Hungary for a break while i whas going to Turkey, so i went to a wall market out there and bought some thing etc. When ive try to enter my car someone called me in Turkish, the same "i asked how did you know i whas Turkish?" he replyed "dont act foolish you have a T-shirt with Turkish flag sticked on it..."

 

Originally posted by DayI Same here too but it whas little bit foolish I whas stopped in Hungary for a break while i whas going to Turkey, so i went to a wall market out there and bought some thing etc. When ive try to enter my car someone called me in Turkish, the same "i asked how did you know i whas Turkish?" he replyed "dont act foolish you have a T-shirt with Turkish flag sticked on it..."

Here: http://www.hackneys.com/alex_web/graphics/mosaic.jpg

u can see alexander chasing darius - they have same complexion.  this was drawn not long after the battle (13 years after Alexander's death apparently)

Italian are dinaric based, so their faces tend to look "harder" then that of Greeks. Its one of the most obvious things them trying to compare Italians and Greeks. Its not just lighter skin, Italians differ greatly and I have seen other Greeks that far exceed Italians. It is that main factor that I mentioned above.
The "hard" face is also apparent in Albs.
Not in my family though, one Greek grandmother completely left my family a race of soft and smooth skinned babyfaces.

greeks are on average taller than both northern and southern italians

Originally posted by hansel greeks are on average taller than both northern and southern italians

 I would not be too sure about that... I think they more pretty similar in height.

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Originally posted by Theodore Felix Some of those Italians who live in the Northern border regions (Alps) don't have any Mediterranean look what so ever. Because if we look at it classicaly. Northern italy was inhabited by the Gaul. I would agree that northern italians look far more like French then their southern counterparts.

Well, all original Italians came from Southern France in the Paleolithic, then in the Neolithic they suffered new waves of peoples from the Balcans and particularly the Aegean region, a trend that continued till historic times. Therefore any genetic table will tell you that Italians are a mix of Western Europeans with Aegean and also some Balcanic elements. The Aegean presence is obviously much stronger in the south while almost non-existent in the north.

The historical influx of Celts is probably not very relevant.

A exception is Sardinia, that with Corsica was settled mostly in Neolithic times being before virgin territory. They are one of the most anomalous groups in European genetics, together with Lapps.