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Do Irish people Scottish people and Welsh people look different too English people?

I have heard there is a difference in colouring like skin colour hair colour and eye colour but what about facial features is there such thing as typical Irish facial features typical Scottish facial features typical Welsh facial features and Typical English facial features all four countries have a different histories different cultures different languages and different ancestries so there must be difference in facial features in somewhere.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Not really. Genetically the Irish are a little bit more homogenous, they had liess incoming groups, but basically the real difference between the groups is more apparent on a cultural scale.Irish people, on average, are somewhat darker haired than the English but, conversely are somewhat more blue eyed.' If you have lived in these countries for years, you might be able to pick out a very 'Irish chin' or 'nose' but this of course ins only in a tiny amount of the population. Most times only the accent is the real giveaway.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I believe you have based your question on an idea that most people are familiar with: that the English are descended from Anglo-Saxons, who invaded eastern England after the Romans left, while most of the people in the rest of the British Isles derive from indigenous Celtic ancestors with a sprinkling of Viking blood around the fringes.

    However based on the overall genetic perspective of the people of the British Isles, it seems that Celts, Belgians, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings and Normans were all immigrant minorities compared with the Basque pioneers, who first ventured into the empty, chilly lands so recently vacated by the great ice sheets.

    http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/mythsof...

    They are all people from the British Isles and all look very much the same.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Through their DNA, the British Isles originated from Spain. In answer to your question, the differences you distinguish, may be due to certain characteristical changes that can take place-- due to different climatic changes in extremely diverse parts of the world.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    If by different you mean not different then yes.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No. They're called ACCENTS. That's how you tell.

  • 5 years ago

    Is there something that keeps you from using punctuation when you write? Are your punctuation keys broken or something?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I would say so yes.

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