‘There were brown-skinned people in medeival and early modern Europe, why don’t they appear in your work?'”
Brown-skinned people? They are referring to Italians and Greek I assume?
That is an odd complain to have. I doubt the Greeks or Italians complained about the lack of representations in a Japanese game.
neither of which is very brown. Actually, during winter and when they live in northern climates, both Greeks and Italians (and even turks and Syrians) are very very white. The thing that makes them dark is tanning due to stronger sunlight exposure. Even northern europeans can get quite dark with lots of sunlight.
Source: Greek family. I live in Poland--the construction workers here get Really dark during the summer.
Bonus fact: The maximum turkic DNA that a turk can have is about 24%. Unless the turk in question has a parent directly from turkmenistan, most turks are actually majority descended from native Anatolian and Greek ancestry. It turns out that the Seljuk invasion was numerically smaller the native Anatolian populace who have been present in Asia Minor for thousands and thousands of years. In fact, while the maximum descent for turks is about 24%, most of them have significantly less, the average is a little under 10%. There is a really interesting haplogroup study about this floating around somewhere that's worth looking into.
Edit: That still doesn't justify letting them into Europe. Fuck the turks.
To cover one point in that, "wine colored eyes" could be a reference to hazel or possibly brown. There's evidence that language of colors progresses along certain paths in every language, and some colors get named later. Hence Virgil's "wine dark sea".
Brown-skinned people? They are referring to Italians and Greek I assume? That is an odd complain to have. I doubt the Greeks or Italians complained about the lack of representations in a Japanese game.
neither of which is very brown. Actually, during winter and when they live in northern climates, both Greeks and Italians (and even turks and Syrians) are very very white. The thing that makes them dark is tanning due to stronger sunlight exposure. Even northern europeans can get quite dark with lots of sunlight.
Source: Greek family. I live in Poland--the construction workers here get Really dark during the summer.
Bonus fact: The maximum turkic DNA that a turk can have is about 24%. Unless the turk in question has a parent directly from turkmenistan, most turks are actually majority descended from native Anatolian and Greek ancestry. It turns out that the Seljuk invasion was numerically smaller the native Anatolian populace who have been present in Asia Minor for thousands and thousands of years. In fact, while the maximum descent for turks is about 24%, most of them have significantly less, the average is a little under 10%. There is a really interesting haplogroup study about this floating around somewhere that's worth looking into.
Edit: That still doesn't justify letting them into Europe. Fuck the turks.
For added bonus points, let's talk about the hair color of various roman emperors...
To cover one point in that, "wine colored eyes" could be a reference to hazel or possibly brown. There's evidence that language of colors progresses along certain paths in every language, and some colors get named later. Hence Virgil's "wine dark sea".
awesome source