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Edited by zukline - 17-Jan-2009 at 13:00

I don't know of other depictions of Genghis khan. And yes, blondness and light eyes do present among Mongoloid Kazakhs. I witnessed it myself many times.

I don't think we need to explain any blondism present among the Mongols with Yuezhi influx. Most likely it occurs naturally within their ethnic group at a certain frequency, as with most other peoples that exhibit these traits.

Mongolian blondes (according to google):

http://static.flickr.com/92/233012392_eca64c39ab_b.jpg

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/126/0,1886,2334718,00.jpg

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/3793/30419794e885d04edd6fs.jpg

http://i4.tinypic.com/zyhfmx.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/347700772_001cf79f3a.jpg

I am only able to find children. As with most people they probably darken as they grow older, into a shade of brown more commonly seen.


Edited by Reginmund - 12-Nov-2008 at 15:22

I don't know about blondism, but some Japanese exhibit the redhaired gene at least. I'd be surprised if not at least a tiny minority exhibit blondism as well.

Yes, I have noticed. You find the same phenomenon among the Samic peoples in northern Scandinavia/northwest Russia, who were originally Mongoloid but have become almost identical with north Europeans through interbreeding. A minority of them however retain some Mongoloid features, especially the slanted eyes. I used to know one such girl myself, with heavily Mongoloid facial features; slanted eyes and very prominent cheekbones, but light blonde hair and blue eyes.

Maybe you heard about the school shooting in Finland not long ago. The perpetrator, one of the pupils, was a typical example (the silly url is due to him being a social darwinist of sorts):

http://oddculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/natural_selector7.png

Central Asians contrary to what some people in the west believe do not all look the same and don't all have black hair and look like Bruce Lee. There are blonde haired people, green and blue eyes people etc

I see you guys giving too much accent to "gene", genes do mutate and modify and evolve, otherwise we would be still monkeys (if we were monkeys).

But how would you explain that Japanese or some Siberian Chukchas or Alaskan Inuit don't have these "nordic features" ?

I read Japan is divided climatically, with a borderline arctic climate in the far north and more of a humid almost tropical climate in far south.

Scandinavian climate is either similar to Alaska and northern Siberia i.e. subarctic or to Northern Japan and Korea i.e. continental humid climate, and there are no blonds or people with notable "nordic" freatures there.