Don't be silly. Obviously we're talking about generalizations. Since I am ethnic German from the southwest, and thereby look roughly French, except for my nose, I am aware that there are very broad exceptions.
Are you actually going to deny that physical appearance in Europe closely correlates with physical area in which one's ancestors lived? The people around me tend to have big wide faces and eyes and are obviously Slavs with a heavy Asian component. Not all of them, but most. My roommate doesn't, I woner why that is -- hey, her grandfather was French. People in Scandinavia tend to be taller and blond. People in Italy tend to be shorter and darker, unless you are in the northern, German-speaking part of Italy. French people tend to be short too. I wonder if this is because the Romans were short. Hmmm.
BTW, people in sub-Saharan Africa tend to have dark skin. People in Japan tend to have epithelial folds. It's true. I'm not making this up.
--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:27 AM
> Unbelievable, would that be the Dolph
> Lundgren Germans or the Ernest Mandel
> Germans you're able to suss out just by looking at
> them? Would that be the
> Munich Germans, the Berlin Germans, the Cologne Germans or
> the Hamburg
> Germans your talking about... seein' as how the first are
> Swiss, the second
> Polish, the third French and the fourth Danish and all
> those groups look the
> same being completely undifferentiated (seein' as how
> they're German after
> all).
>
> Um, and what exactly do you mean by folks from MI and folks
> from the South
> being settled by folks from different European stock?
> 'Cuz, certainly, the
> Virginia British settlers were totally different looking
> relative to the
> Massachusetts British settlers and neither group ever
> "mixed" outside of
> their totally homogenous group, much less with the
> Scots-Irish, and all
> those upstate NYers who settled in MI didn't include a
> mixture of Dutch,
> British, German, French, Polish and Italian ancestry at all
> and they'd be
> TOTALLY distinguishable from the English, Scots-Irish,
> French, German and
> Italian immigrants who moved across the South and the north
> to settle the
> Plains states... especially since all of these completely
> kept to themselves
> in the process of immigration and settlement.
>