Comments by "A AG" (@aag3752) on "How Did Blond Hair u0026 Blue Eyes Spread to Europe?" video.

Fascinating! In Lebanon we have a minority occurrence of blonde hair and blue eyes. Not nearly as high as in northern Europe, but on par with the West Asia/Levant section of the map you showed at the beginning. The connection between West Asia, Siberia and Western Europe in terms of genetics is really mind blowing and good to know. Thanks for the info.
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@chrisnewbury3793 Lol no. We are mostly Phoenician by dna, yet we don't mostly look Nordic. Most of us look like proper Mediterranean people.
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@JohnVKaravitis Not at all actually. All the genetic tests show that the Crusaders barely left a mark. We get our light features from more ancient ancestors.
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Because the Yamnaya replaced this with their language and mythology. Even in the Levant and Caucuses they had some impact, and that's a long way away. Their influence was not only great but long lasting even to the present day.
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@SrdjanBasaric-w2s Umm...ever hear of Hinduism? Ever hear of Norse mythology? Those are its living descendants. Indeed its continuation in the present time.
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@kayeninetwo3585 I don't think it involves different genes. Every European country has a higher number of blonde hair children than adults, even in Germany.
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@RokasStulga From Lebanon, their first city was Tyre. They were Mediterranean of course, but not Greek, they spoke the Phoenician language.
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@Bozvikvin Yes. But the northern Levant (Lebanon and Syria) are more related to each other than the southern Levant.
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Is that true? I don't think so. My blonde hair turned brown also, but my grandmother's stayed blonde. Do we have different genes for the blonde hair? That's not how it works.
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@jdnw85 No. See my comment above.
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@StephenLondon-j6o Lebanon is far from N. Africa, and is not part of the Muslim world.
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@ابغ1212 LMAO. No. It is not a Muslim country, go there and you'll find that out very easily. And what does that have to do with my comment about looks? nothing.
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@mk-sq7yo The Greeks and Romans aren't whiter than Levantines. It's the same general area, with the same climate, and so we don't get it from them. Instead, what geneticists have discovered is that there has been mutual gene flow between west asia and europe for millennia. It's a continuum. This is why Europeans also have middle eastern dna (Anatolian Farmer, etc.).
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@frostflower5555 Incorrect. Blue eyes have been in the Levant since even before the Bronze Age. Nice try though.
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@RokasStulga Though there is some evidence that the Phoenicians recruited some ancient Greeks. They collaborated for some time (and probably intermarried a bit, but this would have been minimal).
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@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 The whitest Lebanese people are the Muslim ones actually.
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@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ Dis gusting, ridic ulous comment. And false.
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@careytitan9097 No it is absolutely not. This is Lebanon we're talking about, which has always had these features, just not as frequent as in northern Europe. But it's still popular enough, it's in every family...the slave trade wouldn't be a sufficient cause for that.
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@careytitan9097 Blue eyes is ultimately as foreign to Lebanon as it is to western Europe. What is your point? In the end, these features have existed in the region for thousands of years, so we don't consider them foreign, just like western Europeans don't.
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@careytitan9097 Irrelevant. Because we did the same. Lebanon has snow and cold weather in the winter. But the point is that western europeans got it from invading migrants from the east (perhaps eastern europe, perhaps the Caucauses in West Asia--geneticists haven't determined it beyond doubt yet). But if you're from western europe, your ancestors got it from the outside, that's 100% fact.
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@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ Sorry, but Greeks do in fact have some Phoenician and Canaanite dna. That's not Semitic, because Semitic is not a race, it's a language family. But it's in your blood, just like we also have some European DNA. Btw you guys are the least European-looking Europeans. Many of you are darker than us. So don't be arrogant.
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@neil3265 It's not less common in Lebanon than the European side of the Mediterranean, actually. Every Lebanese family has somebody with blonde hair. Blue eyes are probably less common, with brown, hazel and green being more popular.
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@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ Semitic is a language family, not a race. No we're not the same but we do share some common ancestry (Greeks also have some Phoenician DNA from the Levant). If that bothers you then it's your problem, doesn't make a difference.
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