CHAT: What do I look like

> Date:         Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:22:50 +0200
> From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
> As for races: people around the Baltic are in general racially homogenous,
> regardless if they speak Baltic, Finno-Ugric, Slavic or Germanic languages,
> and likewise the folks around the North Sea are of one single type,
> regardless of North Germanic, West Germanic, Romance or Celtic
> language.  Needless to say there is also a gigantic transitional area,
> almost as big as each of the two more homogenous ones, to which all of
> south Sweden, South Norway, Jutland, Friesland and the "Danelaw" parts of
> England belong.  Not much room for racial purity in real life!
Does this mean that you include the Danish islands in the Baltic
phenotype area (to use a less encumbered word than race)? I never
considered that there might be a difference between Zealand and
Jutland in that sense --- and I certainly remember people from when I
lived in mid Zealand as very non-homogenous.

Anyway, when you say Baltic type, my immediate image is someone like
Max von Sydow. He could be a Prussian Knight Templar any day.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)