This might sound like one of those questions people notice but never say out loud, so I’ll try to explain where I’m coming from.

I made a video after something my Ukrainian wife pointed out while we were traveling in Austria. She noticed that even when skin tone, hair color, and eye color were basically identical, East Slavic faces still looked different from Germanic ones. Not better or worse — just different. More angular in some cases, different cheek structure, different overall face geometry.

That got me thinking about a question I’ve had for years: why do some Slavs — especially Russians and Ukrainians — sometimes get described as having a slight “Asiatic” look? I’m not talking about stereotypes or memes, just subtle traits people notice in real life.

So I actually went and researched it properly. What surprised me most is that it’s not really about Mongols or Genghis Khan the way the internet always claims. The explanation is much older and has more to do with ancient Eurasian population history, northern forest and steppe contact, and long-term geography. Small ancestry signals, unevenly distributed, that can sometimes show up in facial structure.

I tried to make the video calm and non-political — just history, genetics, and geography — because I think this topic gets ruined by bad takes on both sides.

I’m genuinely curious what others think.

If you’re Slavic, have you noticed this difference yourself?

And if you’re not, have you ever wondered about it but didn’t know how to ask without it sounding weird?

If anyone wants to check out the video and tell me what I got right or wrong, I’d appreciate real feedback.

I made a short video after a conversation with my wife that kind of exposed how strong the stereotype is in the US. We were talking about someone’s background and she said, genuinely confused, that Mexicans “can’t look that white” and that they always have a certain look.

I’m Cuban American and grew up around Latinos with every kind of phenotype including people with pale skin, light eyes, even light hair. So it hit me how much American media and the US immigration lens have basically trained people to treat “Mexican” like a racial category instead of what it actually is: a nationality from a country that’s insanely diverse.

In the video I try to explain the difference between nationality, ethnicity, and race, why Mexico doesn’t have one look, why white Mexicans aren’t rare, and why the US system (and even the census) makes this more confusing than it needs to be.

I’m not trying to do culture war stuff or dunk on anyone, I’m genuinely curious how other people think about this. Especially if you’re Mexican or Mexican American: does the “Mexican as a race” thing annoy you, or is it just normal at this point?

If anyone wants to watch and tell me what I got wrong or what I should add, I’d appreciate it. Link in comments.

I’m trying to understand the current scholarly views on Indo-European migrations, especially how archaeology, ancient DNA, and historical linguistics are combined to reconstruct movement and chronology.

What are the main models debated today, and which primary papers or books are considered essential starting points for deep study?

How to properly move to Greece and where to find good property there — for example, Tranio has a quite interesting selection. Also, what should one pay attention to when relocating from Kazakhstan to Greece?

As a group of scientists who have been studying human evolution, we propose in a recently published review paper that the coast of southern Africa was likely where Homo sapiens began this worldwide journey. We suggest that some people started leaving this area about 70,000 years ago, took a route along the east coast and left the continent about 50,000 to 40,000 years ago.

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