Quote: (02-02-2015 04:07 PM)Icarus Wrote:
Quote: (02-02-2015 03:57 PM)Travesty444 Wrote:
^ Don't they have a great deal of mixing from the Viking conquests?
There was probably some mixing with Celts. Yet, after 1,000 years of mixing and re-mixing in such a small island, a new tribe is born.
I disagree with you. Mixing does not create beautiful people. Mixing plus selection might, however. Generating genetic diversity is half the process. The other half is to aggressively select phenotypes. Constant war and a permanent shortage of men should ensure that only the prettiest women procreate.
Russia has lots of mixing and lots of selection, which is why their women are hot. Portugal has lots of mixing but not much selection, due to the fact that Portugal never had devastating wars and was never conquered by anyone (other than Napoleon), and the result is that the women in Portugal aren't very impressive.
I disagree a little bit on this. In the 20th century Portugal had devastating losses in WWI according to wikipedia we lost 1,49% of our population, the russian empire lost 1,79%...We also had more recently in the 60s and 70s a colonial conflict in wich some of our best boys lost their lives or become crippled. If we go to 19th century, we had a devestating Civil war, and the three Napoleon Invasions where major catastrofes. Before that, our history is mainly made of continental wars with Spain and at the sea in all continents.
All of this just to quote a brazilian saying "there is no such thing as a ugly woman, it only exists a woman that does not look after herself" (and we all know or heard about the charms of brazilian ladies...).
Comparing to Portuguese to Russian we should also notice that genetics plays a big part on this. Russians are more athletic, so they have naturally more gifted bodies. Also their sport education counts on this, they are a sports superpower, and we count by the fingers of one hand our Olympic gold medals.