Valisz
8 Oct 2013
Genealogy / Are Bavarians by any chance, related to the Polish people? [30]
There is no location in Poland as dark as Bavaria, even in the South of Poland they're lighter than Bavarians. Bavarians are even darker than your average Brit. Only the East of Germany are "slavicized Germans" Bavarians have nothing to do with Slavics and ultimately tend to look North Italian.
Its because Germany has been influenced by many.....Romans, Celts etc. Poland didn't have influence from a majority of these people.
Only the Northern region next to the Danish border are Germans really "Germanic", genetically they're as mixed as the British are. And in some cases some Germans even cluster close to the French like so.
@ Lyzko very true.
R1a is present in Bavaria at a mere 9.5%. It reaches as far as 25% in the East of Germany. Bavarians are mostly Y-dna R1b as the bulk of Germans are. Southern Germany actually has one of the highest counts of R1b in Germany. Which is a minority in most Slavic populations. Its best not to listen to people who don't know a thing about genetics and just rely on cultural stereotypes to define a people lol.
Also chuckled at the height and bone structure thing. Oh there's that subtle racism again, and again noone protested it as expected. Ancient Slavs were described as being tall by the way. Germanics were not the only tall people in Europe. And someone being tall doesn't mean they're Germanic. Secondly i didn't get the robust comment, because your typical Russian is far more robust than a German or Scandinavian. Scandinavians are mostly Batlid/Nordids they have much more slender faces than your average Russian.
There is no location in Poland as dark as Bavaria, even in the South of Poland they're lighter than Bavarians. Bavarians are even darker than your average Brit. Only the East of Germany are "slavicized Germans" Bavarians have nothing to do with Slavics and ultimately tend to look North Italian.
Its because Germany has been influenced by many.....Romans, Celts etc. Poland didn't have influence from a majority of these people.
Only the Northern region next to the Danish border are Germans really "Germanic", genetically they're as mixed as the British are. And in some cases some Germans even cluster close to the French like so.
@ Lyzko very true.
R1a is present in Bavaria at a mere 9.5%. It reaches as far as 25% in the East of Germany. Bavarians are mostly Y-dna R1b as the bulk of Germans are. Southern Germany actually has one of the highest counts of R1b in Germany. Which is a minority in most Slavic populations. Its best not to listen to people who don't know a thing about genetics and just rely on cultural stereotypes to define a people lol.
Also chuckled at the height and bone structure thing. Oh there's that subtle racism again, and again noone protested it as expected. Ancient Slavs were described as being tall by the way. Germanics were not the only tall people in Europe. And someone being tall doesn't mean they're Germanic. Secondly i didn't get the robust comment, because your typical Russian is far more robust than a German or Scandinavian. Scandinavians are mostly Batlid/Nordids they have much more slender faces than your average Russian.
