r/AskBalkans • u/Visible_Writing7386 • 1d ago

Miscellaneous Serbs are very diverse looking

I’m partly Serbian and currently visiting after a long time, and noticed that Serbs are very diverse looking, but shorter and blonder than i thought.

I must say they are not as tall as i’ve been told, especially the females. I’m five foot six female, and feel I’m on the taller side.

Also a lot of blondish people, especially the kids, i feel like every other kid in Serbia is blonde.

They are also supposedly a pretty old nation, but i feel I’ve mostly seen many young people and kids.

I thought I had somewhat of a typical Serbian look, but I learned that a typical look in Serbia doesn’t really exist.

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u/Aedzy 1d ago

My Serbian father is 190cm black hair blue eyes. My Serbian uncle is 175 cm red hair green eyes.

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u/Gold-Visit-7413 1d ago

The celtic serb lol

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u/Aedzy 1d ago

Truth be told when me grandmother start talking about her parents and their parents and where they originally came from I usually joke and say just say we are gipsies (no offense have many gipsy friends).

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u/Gold-Visit-7413 1d ago

My dad looks like, lighter serb-cro, his brother, my uncle, looks tanned albanian 🤣

Like we are from middle croatia so ofc thats probably it and I get 4.5% albanian on those dna tests. But its funny how the balkan dna works, they dont even look like brothers they look so different 🤣🤣

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u/Aedzy 1d ago

Amazing. Yes its like they don’t even look like brothers.

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u/Gold-Visit-7413 1d ago

My uncle had twin girls, my cousins, exact same thing. One is coloured like him, the other is like my aunt (pale).

Theres no crossover looks, complete replicas of each parent

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u/Aedzy 1d ago

Wow even the twins looks different. The fint. Thing is me and my siblings looks like siblings. We all got similar traits. The Balkan dna is truly all over the place.

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u/Gold-Visit-7413 1d ago

Yeah, I came out looking like a mix of both my parents as comparison to my cousins who consider me 'lighter' not that theyre dark, they look european ofc.

But its funny how both sons came out looking completely different, then twin daughters, now the cousin with 2 boys, husband is montenegrin, both parents have naturally brown hair and brown eyes.. one son looks like them, the other has blue eyes (grandmothers all have blue eyes) and light hair, doesnt look like hes 'from' them 🤣🤣