Classify Alexis Bledel

[Wulf]

She is supposedly half-Argentine and half-Mexican. Most Argentines are white and there is a small white minority in Mexico, so what does that make her? Is she even white?

[Awar]

She does have a nose that would point me to say mestizo ( nose, sort of like Fez from 'That 70's show' has ), but she's by far predominantly Caucasoid.

I'd guess of mixed German ( Borreby/Alpinoid ) and Spanish ( Atlanto-Med ) ancestry mixed with some Mestizo.

[Agrippa]

Borreby-Mediterranid might be right although Alpine-Nordid is possible as well.

She doesnt look like a Mestizo at least in this pictures.

[Glenlivet]

I know she is not (at least not stated as such), but I always thought she is of Irish descent, or has a combination of traits that are found in Ireland (very pale complexion, dark blue eyes, dark chestnut brown hair (guess) and squarish face, but Gilmore Girls may have also influenced the impression I got).

French ancestry would not surprise me either.

Some might call her sub-Nordid.

The difficulty is to find out if such females are of Coon's Brünn type, or are western Alpinids. What do you think?

I would also not rule out Cro-Magnoid + North-Atlantid (rather than Mediterranid). She look totally Europid.

[Huzar]

To be sincere i opened a thread on Alexis Bledel a couple of months ago.........anyway, thank you, Glen , to open a new thread Alexis is too cute


Well, my opinion is this : she is mostly Alpinid (i don't know if of the western variant or not, but surley not of the eastern). Unfortunatley, i think that many observers, when see a beautifull and attractive face, instinctively associate it to some nordish influence. It's not necessary(at least, not in every case of course) . Indeed, i don't think she is sub-nordid, rather simply a very refined and cute Alpinid subject. A beautifull pair of blue eyes (like hers) isn't necessarly the result of some nordid influence : Alpinid race has his own good amount of light eyes afterall.

His phenotype is not rare in Central France, Southern Germany, Switzerland
or even Northern-Italy, i can say

[Rhydderch]

Partly Litorid individuals can be mistaken for Alpinids. I think Alexis' broadish face and certain other features suggest a Litorid influence.

[Todesritter]

Her IMDB Profile mentions her mother is Mexican, and her father Argentinean, and her first language is Spanish, she had to learn English while growing up in Texas.

However, as to what kind of Mexican and Argentinean...

"Her parents' nationalities are Mexican and Argentinean; her ethnic background includes German and Spanish." - from - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088127/bio

So, not that ethnic background in the case of New World hybrids of Old World European blood should have a 100% corollary, or causal relationship to classification, but without seeing the mother, I would guess if she is nearly pure Spanish, perhaps the mother's family line tended to the extreme pure end of the old Visigothic or Celtic (Galician) spectrum possible among Spanish genotype.

With regards to the father, in my own family, I have Chilean German family members, and know that even some of those who immigrated before 1700 stayed in insular 100%-95% purely German communities, still speaking an archaic form of High German, or often a peculiar sub-dialect of Platt or other regional speech long extinct in the Fatherland. That is to say, I would wager any other South American Germans, from studying about these people a bit and knowing a few, are likely little or no different by blood than a native German.

So, and I know it does not really work this way but, if we drew a circle about northern Spain, and northern Germany, and then drew a line connecting them, and looked at the mid-point on that line, it sounds like that mid-point would lie in the general vicinity of the majority of the regions already mentioned associated with phenotypes roughly matching Alexis Bledel.

[Glenlivet]

What about her is Armenoid (or maybe Dinarid)?

Partly Litorid individuals can be mistaken for Alpinids.

[Glenlivet]

To be sincere i opened a thread on Alexis Bledel a couple of months ago.........anyway, thank you, Glen , to open a new thread Alexis is too cute

Can you show me that thread? I want to see the other opinions there. I also think that she is cute (paedomorphism).

Unfortunatley, i think that many observers, when see a beautifull and attractive face, instinctively associate it to some nordish influence. It's not necessary(at least, not in every case of course).

People use Nordish in different ways, but like I said, she would probably not look out of place in Ireland (which is in NW Europe). I think most followers of the Nordish definition from SNPA would call her Peripheral Nordish.

I know what you mean, and it is unfortunate there is a bias that may cloud judgement. You have raised that point before. It is important. However, one can simply look at her physical characteristics. There are beautiful and ugly people among all sub-races and types. We all have our preferences though. One cannot hide that.

One should in fact state ones preferences. I like to see somewhat rounded or squarish faces among females (and do not mind much if they are reduced), and leptosomic (if it does not look effeminate, which it sometimes does in extreme form) or mesomorphic among men. It is just the traditional view of women being sweet and cute, men handsome. That is what is common. Blondism also look feminine, which may distract us from an otherwise masculine mophology in a female. Some types have a tendency towards females that are also hyper-leptosomes, but I find that too masculine for my taste. I wrote the above to explain that I do not dislike Alpinoid features among females, because it goes along with paedomorphism, and I (being a man), am attracted to neoteny and all that it is associated with on a deeply psychological level.

Alpinid race has his own good amount of light eyes afterall.

We are talking about tendencies. I am not dogmatic.

True, many Alpinids in Northern Italy are light brown-haired with the same shade of eyes or lighter. A Swiss friend told me that Alpinids across the border in Switzerland are darker though.

Her forehead bulge outwards, which is an Alpinid trait.

His phenotype is not rare in Central France, Southern Germany, Switzerland
or even Northern-Italy, i can say

I agree.

[Huzar]

One should in fact state ones preferences. I like to see somewhat rounded or squarish faces among females (and do not mind much if they are reduced), and leptosomic (if it does not look effeminate, which it sometimes does in extreme form) or mesomorphic among men. It is just the traditional view of women being sweet and cute, men handsome. That is what is common. Blondism also look feminine, which may distract us from an otherwise masculine mophology in a female. Some types have a tendency towards females that are also hyper-leptosomes, but I find that too masculine for my taste. I wrote the above to explain that I do not dislike Alpinoid features among females, because it goes along with paedomorphism, and I (being a man), am attracted to neoteny and all that it is associated with on a deeply psychological level.

I understand your instinctive preference : it's scientific. Instead, i'm attracted, personally by more leptosomic female subjects.............(but this is another story )

For the thread, now i'll give you the link, but unfortunately, the thread, hadn't a big fortune . Only two people answered to me..............