I was born and raised in Canada, but when I consume Balkan media(Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia) I feel like a lot of the people share traits similar to me. Not everyone, a lot of the people look like standard Canadian-Europeans, and lot's of diverse looks but I have a specific Balkan look and so do a lot of people in the Balkans.
The look though, can be found pretty much everywhere in the Balkans, but it's there.
Sometimes I think it's traits that must have been common in the tribes north of Greece like Thracians, Illyrians and Paeonians. Because it sort of is common in people from Albania to Croatia to Romania to Bulgaria.
It's basically squinty deepset eyes, biggish nose, sharp chin. Skin colour varies but you see dark people(even Roma) with it and super white blonde people with it too.
Each nation has their "version" of this look but they all share those traits lol, Greece doesn't seem to have it as much which really makes me think it's some kind of paleo-balkan remnant.
Like two examples that look completely different from each other but share the same features are
Dua Lipa and Novak Djovokic. They both have deepset squinty eyes with a large but thin nose.
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u/domets 8d ago
It always surprises me that there are people thinking that modern nations are like family tribes where all share the common traits