No diversity. In a group of that size in any Slavic Balkan country you would see a blond, pale skin guy, a Mediterranean-looking guy, a Germanic looking guy etc. In that picture they are all Mediterranean.
It depends on the country, for example in my high school class there wasn't a single blonde or a germanic looking person. Not all south slavic speaking countries are the same.
If you are in Prilep or Gevgelija, yes, they are darker as probably much mixed with greeks and ancient Macedonians throughout history. Go to north and north east of Macedonia. Several members in my direct family have blue eyes. DM me if you need proofs, we can gladly align.
This is really true. I couldn’t put my finger on it but you discribed it. Us Slavic Balkaners are usually more diverse, and to be honest, slightly paler on average.
Most of the guys on the photo look like the mediterranean end of the range for what’s usually seen in groups, both regarding the skin color and facial structure.
Exactly. They have this swarthy look, almost North African. But they have typical Greek faces, which made it obvious to me they were Greek. Handsome young men nevertheless.
I am literally blonde with blue eyes, and half of the people I know are. It is not better than any other types, it is maybe not even better looking for some, but thinking that is something special, and that "nordics" are somehow better that you would "dream on" just screams "inferiority complex" from your side.
They do, but not this one. He could never be from the Balkans bc his face is HIGHLY Middle Eastern.
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There is no such thing as Balkan Look. South Slavs Look very different than Greeks, Romanians or Albanians on average, there is some overlap but on group pictures like this you can easily tell them apart. On group pictures i can tell even Croats and Serbs apart.
What do you mean?
Northwestern Croats are genetically closer to Germans than to Serbs, of course you can tell them apart lol.
For southern ones it's harder
Its hard to explain but Serbs and Croats have different facial Features, not all of course and there is a big overlap but on group pictures of 5 or more persones i can usually tell who is who. Nikola Jokic for example looks very Serbian to me and i would never gas him as a Croat even if i wouldnt know him, on the other hand Ante Gotovina or Goran Visnjic look exclusively Croatian to me.
Remember the story from Albanian living and working illegaly in Greece in 90s. Somebody snitched to law enforcment that in that restaurant Albanians are working illegaly, police broke indide establishment one morning and jumped straight to Greek owner who looked like Albanian, asked him for ID while completely ignored real Albanian guy who worked illegaly and looked like Greek, which gave him time to evaporate into thin air in 3msec..
Well there are also Germans who Look Like Turks but that doesnt mean anything. As i already said If you Look at group pictures you can usually tell different nationalities apart at least i can.
I Just wrote South Slavs because its easier than to point every single Nation. In my last sentence i literally wrote that even Serbs and Croats dont look the Same.
Blacking out the badges as if we don't know where they're from. There's only one military force in the world where every single servicemember has the wrong size beret.
Yeah definetly. Try 2037. When I went to the army a couple years ago, people were still given button-up uniforms and Leather boots from the Vietnam era, back then they had already promised a new uniform since 2020. I was lucky to join the SF and get an actual uniform and boots, but I feel bad for the average recruit.
Regular Greeks or Cypriots you can tell by the faces and the uniforms.
Sort answer no they dont really look like Balkan locals but that depends of what mean by Balkan in general there are many different races in the Balkan peninsular.
If my google skills are any good this nice folks wear logo of US patriot defense operators on their necks. So I imagine Balkan blood (if there any) runs rather thin.
But my first thought was another Peninsula - Iberian one.
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Dont talk nonsense these guys are turkish.
The Greek people are a Mediterranean people with Balkan features, mainly in northern Greece.
What you see in the photo can also be found in Sicily and Cyprus.
There are no Slavic features in Greece from the center of the country and southward.
You’ll also find many fair-haired people with blue eyes in Crete. I don’t know how to explain that, though.
One of them really looks like pro CS2 player Makazze and he's from Kosovo so they could be from Balkans I guess. They could be from thousands of other places too tbh lol
This question doesn’t even make sense. You’re asking if these guys “look Balkan” as if those are measurable categories, when in reality neither of those labels means anything concrete. There is no single “Balkan phenotype,” no unified “Balkan look.” You’re just projecting stereotypes onto random faces and then pretending it’s genetics.
What’s even weirder is how the whole thread turns into people arguing about who’s “too dark” or “too turkish” to fit some imaginary standard. It’s embarrassing. The obsession with assigning looks to entire nations is wild even more so when you start using appearance as proof of identity.
Okay bro, what are you trying to prove? Someone asked what they look like, and I said they look Turkish because of their dark complexion. Why the huge reaction?
Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace are already more Balkan than the rest of Greece.
But for the most part, I would describe Greece as Mediterranean, especially the islands.
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