Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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They were described as such
They got assimilated into Europeans
The only description of ancient Slavic peoples describes them the same way as Goths
Untrue
being pale in skin, and of ginger hair
Sec
Procopius - the earliest account of Slavic peoples
He described their looks, their pantheon and their fighting habits
He said they were "ruddy"
i have never seen a swarthy person to be "ruddy" as well
being "ruddy" is a phenomenon of white skin
"Slavic" as a term is too wide to be useful for narrowing down things, and has remained in widespread use due to persistence of Slavic tongues everywhere, especially in toponyms
For example, many Slavic people were assimilated into Germans, and probably didn't differ much from them
In the East on the other hand, we had different events
Russians and Croatians are for example, very different in appearance, yet, in linguistics, very similar
From Germany to Siberai and from Baltic to the Aegean sea, you can see one and the same Slavic names for certain things, especially geographical objects
Are these people the same ? Hardly
How are "Slavic" peoples Sorbs and Macedonians related? almost in no respect
Also important
Recession of blonde appearance is an important phenomenon that has rapidly been going on in last 200 years
Look at rennaisance paintings from Medieval northern Italy
Florence, Pisa, etc
Like half or more women were painted as blondes
you can now walk around Italy whole day without finding a single blonde lady
that's the inevitable result of nationalism btw, french revolution style
"we are of same nation"
levelling of diferent stratums of society into one rainbow nation
google "rennaisance italy paintings" and see how many blonde women are represented
it's so obvious southern europe used to be nordic
define southern
but northern italy was
Thrace and Macedonia were ginger to blonde
There existed pale people in North Africa
Italy was once a completely diverse subcontinent, but today is almost exclusivelly identified with Sicilian type
And I don't mean to label Sicillians as necessarily inferior
However, the perception transformation is evident
racial mafiamen
You had Romans and Etruscans who were ginger, quite mixed
Northern Italy which was very "Gaul"
and deep south, which was more close to Greeks