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my hair is closer to blonde now and my beard comes in really dark so we should be okay. unless it all averages.

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Quoted from Sunny:

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I have the opposite. You can't really see it in that photo because the lighting is terrible, but while my hair is dark, my beard comes in slightly red (especially around what would form a goatee). I suspect it is the Irish/Norsemen genetics.

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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Same thing happens for me. It's hard to tell from afar because the black ones outshadow them, but when you look up close I have a lot of red and blonde beard hairs, especially in the chin area.

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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Same thing happens for me. It's hard to tell from afar because the black ones outshadow them, but when you look up close I have a lot of red and blonde beard hairs, especially in the chin area.

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Now that is kinda weird. Are you 100% Greek?

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Depends on what you mean. Contrary to Greek propaganda, Greece hasn't had a hermetically sealed gene-pool identical to that of ancient Athens in the golden era. My mom's region probably hasn't been majority Greek since the reign of Heraclius. It is now "100% Greek" because when Greece exported the entire Turkish population in the 1920's, Turkey did the same thing and Greece settled almost all the immigrants in this area. The huge majority of remaining native population were almost all Slavic speakers, but Greece was eager to keep it's newly gained provinces and insisted that these people never were Slavs, but Greeks (purely bred since ancient times) who had been forced into speaking Slavic and assimilated Slavic culture centuries ago by invading armies, and never went back. So to correct this, they were forced into speaking Greek by the new invading army and have since assimilated a Greek culture. Serbia used a nearly identical playbook north of the border. Villages on either side of an imaginary line settled by the friendly new nations of Serbia and Greece were now populated by people who were, are, and always will be Serbs. Or Greeks, depending on which side you're on.

That said, Greeks aren't all dark-haired. Strangely, I don't think any of my grandparents had black hair or dark eyes, even though I've got both.

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Hmm, I didn't think about all the Slavic peoples in that area. I think my main point was that as far as Europeans are concerned, red hair is believed to have originated in Northern Europeans, specifically Germanic and later Scandinavian tribes, so it must be exceedingly rare for a Greek person to have red hair. But then the Slavs come into the picture, and who knows, ancestors of the Varangian Guard from Constantinople too.

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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Same thing happens for me. It's hard to tell from afar because the black ones outshadow them, but when you look up close I have a lot of red and blonde beard hairs, especially in the chin area.

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Now that is kinda weird. Are you 100% Greek?

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Depends on what you mean. Contrary to Greek propaganda, Greece hasn't had a hermetically sealed gene-pool identical to that of ancient Athens in the golden era. My mom's region probably hasn't been majority Greek since the reign of Heraclius. It is now "100% Greek" because when Greece exported the entire Turkish population in the 1920's, Turkey did the same thing and Greece settled almost all the immigrants in this area. The huge majority of remaining native population were almost all Slavic speakers, but Greece was eager to keep it's newly gained provinces and insisted that these people never were Slavs, but Greeks (purely bred since ancient times) who had been forced into speaking Slavic and assimilated Slavic culture centuries ago by invading armies, and never went back. So to correct this, they were forced into speaking Greek by the new invading army and have since assimilated a Greek culture. Serbia used a nearly identical playbook north of the border. Villages on either side of an imaginary line settled by the friendly new nations of Serbia and Greece were now populated by people who were, are, and always will be Serbs. Or Greeks, depending on which side you're on.

That said, Greeks aren't all dark-haired. Strangely, I don't think any of my grandparents had black hair or dark eyes, even though I've got both.

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Quoted from Stegosaurus_D:

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I don't have an opinion to speak of. Seems intuitive that the best way to get an idea would be to look at the surviving sculptures and descriptions in surviving literature? I think there is plenty of info to get an idea if you care to.

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