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How do Nordic people feel about other people commonly mimicking their hair and now apparently their eye coloration too? I think the historical taboo of nordici
by pfannkuchen 2y ago
How do Nordic people feel about other people commonly mimicking their hair and now apparently their eye coloration too?
I think the historical taboo of nordicism not being consciously connected to this sort of practice is… interesting.
- xenospn 2y agoI know a lot of Nordic people who dye their hair black. So it goes both ways.
- david38 2y agoExcept black hair isn’t associated with any culture or people. Dark brown and black are just “hair”. Blonde hair, blue eyes, etc are specifically associated with Nordics, even if some other small populations have those traits. That said, cultural appropriation is bullshit. It’s a made-up word because they couldn’t say “stole”.
- aaronrobinson 2y agoBlack hair is associated with Italian women.
- asyx 2y agoWhere exactly is that specifically Nordic? There are a good chunk of blue eyed blond people all over Europe (quite rare in the south maybe).
- red-iron-pine 2y ago> black hair isn’t associated with any culture or people like half of asia
- coffeebeqn 2y agoAs a official representative of the Nordics, I truly don’t care
- Arnt 2y agoAgree entirely. Weird question.
- hitekker 2y agoIt feels like ethnic anxieties have spiked since the election. Particularly among the prosperous with luxury time & beliefs. However, that might just be my perception.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoApologies for the esoteric view, it may warrant further explanation. My point is that holding Nordic ethnicities as being superior to others was a controversial take that was popular among a set of early to mid 20th century people who are today regarded as basically the definition of evil in common western culture. People who are in this camp, that nordicism is wrong and evil and a direct source of many past horrors, unthinkingly mimic unique physical traits of Nordic people, without making the connection that they are engaging in a (very mild) flavor of that same nordicism themselves. As a person of mixed heritage at this granularity, with some Nordic and some not, some blond haired blue eyed relatives and others not, I am not for it or against it, I just find it to be a rather curious juxtaposition.
- Arnt 2y agoWell, most people in the world see us as those nice well-behaved countries on the upper edge of the map, and ask about the midnight sun or something. Any other viewpoint is surprising to us. A viewpoint that confuses our reality with a nazi fetish is very surprising to us.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoYou don’t seem to understand what I am saying at all. No one has confused your reality with a nazi fetish.
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- conradev 2y agoNordic, and Baltic, and 27% of the US population My blue eyes come by way of Poland
- sandworm101 2y agoBlonde hair and blue eyes are a sign of youth (aka beauty) in many areas far outside the north. Eyes and hair darken with age in many mammals. All kittens have blue eyes but virtually no cats retain them. Interestingly, the only mammal that regularly changes its eye color is the reindeer, a responce to the dark northern winters, although the mechanism is different than iris color.
- grumple 2y agoLight eyes of various sorts are seen throughout much of the world, including North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, and south-central Asia like in Afghanistan. Blue eyes originated in Africa 50,000 years ago. There's no "cultural appropriation" here, it's just color. People are free to do whatever cosmetic nonsense they want and take on the health risks associated with it.
- tokai 2y agoAs nordic person I fail to see how this relate to me or my ethnicity. If someone get green eyes done how would I even know if they are "mimicking" me and not Iranians or Afghans?