Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
Let's remember blonde hair is not owned by any one demographic or race. In fact, natural blonde hair can be found within Black communities. For instance, in Melanesia, a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, blonde hair and dark skin is indigenous.
It is true that blonde hair is more common among Europeans than it is among Asians and Africans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. And, usually when people of mostly African, East Asian, or indigenous American heritage have blond hair it is due to some European ancestry.
Blonde and blond essentially mean the same thing. It's just that in French, blond is the masculine form, both as a noun and adjective; adding the E makes it feminine. So, a woman with blond hair is une blonde, a man, un blond.
In mythology, blondes' first appearance was 11,000 years ago with two of the Norse, or Scandinavian, goddesses, Sif and Freyja. Freyja was the goddess of beauty, love, and fertility. With blonde hair and blue eyes, she was one of the most admired goddesses for her beauty.
Finland. Finland has the highest blond hair population by percentage of the total population. Nearly 80% of the population has blond hair, and an astounding 89% of the population has blue eyes. Blond hair and blue eyes are one of the rarest combinations in the world.
There are many Asians with blonde hair. Yes. It is common for West Asians, which are part of the Middle East to have blond/light brown hair. Lebanese, Palestinians, Persians, and people from Jordan are asians that can have blond hair and colored eyes.
As a result of the relatively low levels of sunlight for most of the year, humans in Scandinavia began to develop symptoms of vitamin D deficiency: namely lighter skin and hair colour. No fellas around? With the sun rarely making an appearance through the Danish winter, it's easy to see how this theory makes sense.
In clear terms, “blond” is an adjective used for masculine nouns (i.e. the blond boy) while “blonde” is only attributed to female nouns (i.e. the girl is blonde.)
Blonds get white hair just like brunets, but some blondes only appear to get a lighter blond while others experience their blonde hairs getting darker and duller as the white hairs begin to appear. Still, blondes can, over time, have a full head of white hair.
Some Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians have naturally blonde hair without admixture with whites.
“We didn't know genetically what they actually looked like until now,” Willerslev added. He said the new research “debunks” the traditional image of blond Vikings, as “many had brown hair and were influenced by genetic influx from the outside of Scandinavia.”
The reason has roots in evolutionary psychology. Both blonde hair and blue eyes are recessive traits, so both parents must carry the gene for blonde hair to pass it on to their kids. Some scientists think men with light hair and eyes are instinctively drawn to women with the same coloring.
In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that the coloring could be a result of excess sun exposure, or a diet rich in fish.
Being naturally blonde is pretty rare – True!
Only 2 percent of people in the world are natural blondes. Interestingly, only about one in 20 Americans is naturally blonde. But that doesn't mean it's not popular. One in three women dyes her locks light enough to be considered blonde.
Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are blond. Female university presidents are more likely to be blond, too.
Take this 2011 study from dating app Badoo, for example. A couple of thousand UK men were polled and 33.1% of them revealed they found brunettes more attractive than blondes. Though 29.5% found blondes more attractive, brown-haired beauties still edged ahead of the pack.
The study found that the average IQ of blondes was actually slightly higher than those with other hair colors, but that finding isn't statistically significant, said Zagorsky, who works in the university's Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR).
We have listed all the opposite words for blonde alphabetically. brunet. brunette. dusky. olive-skinned.
Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
The genes for blue eyes and blonde hair are recessive, meaning both parents must have the genes for them to be expressed in their offspring.
Blond hair and blue eyes are characteristics associated with people from northern European countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark, etc. These people are said to look "Teutonic" which is a term the ancient Romans gave to a northern European tribe known as the Teutons.
There are plenty of blue-eyed Asians. This probably happens when the traditional blue-eyed allele comes into a family from a (possibly very distant) European ancestor. Blue eyes then resurface in a child generations later if they inherit the allele from both parents.
There have been 16 genes identified that contribute to eye colour. This means that no matter what colour eyes your parents have, yours can be pretty much any colour. All races, including Caucasian, African, Asian, Pacific Islanders, Arabic, Hispanic and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas can have green eyes.
Many Asians have naturally straight hair, but there is a significant group of us who do have naturally curly or wavy hair! However, because it's the norm to see straight and sleek hair, curly haired boys and girls tend to think that their hair is some kind of unruly straight hair that isn't behaving.