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Ireland is a predominantly light-haired country! 36% have dark brown and darker hair, 31% have light brown hair, 10% have red hair, 23% have blonde hair mainly of golden shades. This translate that 64% have light hair (non-dark brown/black) is similar to that of Northern Germany. Furthermore more than 80% of Irish have blue or green eyes and 76% have very fair skin types (I/II). They are palest-skinned of all Europeans.
European countries
What about Belgium and Ireland? Don't they have a lot of blondes too? Where it says "countries such as England, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Russia, etc. generally having larger proportions of blond people than countries further south in Europe," shouldn't we add Belgium and Ireland? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.7.5 (talk) 19:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
France
Geographic distribution in Europe : "26% of French population has blond or light brown hair". The source is too old, today, only 4.5% of French population has blond or light brown hair.--31.35.104.232 (talk) 00:08, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
- This source states that 1/5 french females are blonde, half of which are fake. Still a lot more than 5%.
- It gets additionally complicated when including light brown hair. Where is the line drawn? What shade is blond, what shade is light brown? It is also in the eye of the beholder based on their reference frame (what people around you look like nowadays). Hair that is considered deep brown in Denmark may be considered blonde in southern Italy. --Tueday Dining In Room (talk) 20:29, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Please fix that! Blonde hair is most common in the Scandinavia, Baltic States, British Isles, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus and Russia. Countries lying along the Mediterranean are definitely less blonde. Mcdonnolly (talk) 12:54, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
26% of French people being blonde is not too high, light brown shades are included! This concerns only French people of European descent not those of non-European descent. It is actually very low, since in Ireland 54% have blonde/light brown hai, though the later is more common. Mcdonnolly (talk) 13:05, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
5%? That is more for Italy. Mcdonnolly (talk) 13:07, 28 March 2016 (UTC) What about Britain? what's the proportion of blond/light brown hair in Britain?
Italy and Sardinia
First of all where are the sources? I think those Italian datas are based on a research done by a military doctor called ridolfo livi on conscripted soldiers born in 1863, not by Biasutti, that wasn't a doctor or ananthropoligist, but a geographer. correct it! Sardinia's datas are wrong infact blondism in Sardinia range by 2.4% in the south, and from 2.4% to 4.9% in the north, according to livi's study brought back by biasutti in xxi century, in the book "le razze e i popoli della terra". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daygum (talk • contribs)
- Why are Veneto, Friuli, Valle d'Aosta and Bolzano given as the only examples of 'northern and central regions' of Italy? All four are in the far north of the country, and are not 'central' by any stretch of the imagination!213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:34, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Inaccurate information
I see a lot of misleading information, like in Asia and Africa. The page is constantly affected propaganda and biased information. Blondes date back to only 10,000-12,000 years and make up 2% of the world (I would like to add, besides natural blondes, blondes in general make up about 16% of the world), yet I see a lot of information about European history referring to people during war/control (that are currently not present in the region) or dating back to millenniums, if the history is even justifiable. Melanesian people are said to be the second largest population, besides Europeans. Also many of the information refers to children, sick or the elderly, that have blonde hair due to sunlight or lack of nutrition. There should also be information about the various forms of albinism and Marfan syndrome as well, which is more common in remote people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisxlowry (talk • contribs) 20:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
False. Less than 5% of the world is naturally blonde. You forget that most people in the world are non-Whites! Mcdonnolly (talk) 13:08, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Melanesian child
The picture in the article claims the child is a girl, but there is also another version that claims it's a boy.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Blonde_girl_Vanuatu.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Blond-haired_Vanuatu_boy.jpg
The boy version is larger, but it's also newer. To me, she looks like a girl. However, I just wanted to bring it to the attention of the article's editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.73.65 (talk) 01:06, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Copyright violations
This article has been reverted to eliminate edits by User:Lavezzicavani3, who by all indications appears to be returned serial copyright infringer User:Joeyc91. This reversion is not simply based on the history of the sockmaster, but on demonstrated copying within this article. For instance:
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| Ludwig Woltmann studied portrait paintings, busts and written descriptions, to ascertain the physical features of the great men of the Italian Renaissance. He revealed that many of the individuals possessed fair hair and blue eyes. The results of his investigations, were as follows: of the 125 men whose eye colour could be discerned, 102 had blue, blue-grey or blue-green eyes; 18 had brown or brown-grey eyes; and 5 had eyes of mixed pigmentation. Of the 108 men whose hair colour could be accurately determined, 68 had blond or red hair; 26 had brown hair; and 14 had black hair. | Woltmann studied portrait paintings, busts and written descriptions, to ascertain the physical features of the great men of the Italian Renaissance. He revealed that many of the individuals in question, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Tasso, Galileo, etc., were of Germanic descent, and that they possessed Nordic racial characteristics. The results of his investigations, were as follows: of the 125 men whose eye colour could be discerned, 102 had blue, blue-grey or blue-green eyes; 18 had brown or brown-grey eyes; and 5 had eyes of mixed pigmentation. Of the 108 men whose hair colour could be accurately determined, 68 had blond or red hair; 26 had brown hair; and 14 had black hair. |
| The German classicist Sieglin demonstrated that the family names of most Patrician clans, denoted fair features. He compiled a list of 329 individuals, whose names are indicative of their possessing fair hair | The German classicist Sieglin (1935)... demonstrated that the family names of most Patrician clans, denoted Nordic racial features.... He compiled the following list of individuals, whose names are indicative of their possessing fair hair |
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How about adding a symbolism and meanings behind different hair colours, please?
Iamnofool6 (talk) 05:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Buddhacarita
@Editguy111: point out which specific text in Buddhacharita claims Brahmins were blonde and blue eyed.
@Joshua Jonathan: can you address this issue? you have more knowledge about Buddhist texts. His source is from rather controversial figure Gendün Chöphel, who is not a historian.
Source Problems for the The Southern Europe section of the Folklore & Mythology section.
(Novoneiro (talk) 17:25, 24 September 2016 (UTC)) I just checked the Internet Archive for any mention of Pindar describing Athena as "fair-haired", and could not find it, and there is no source cited. However, the Muses of Apollo are described as "fair-haired" in the First Pythian Ode. Bacchus is also called fair-haired in the Seventh Isthmian Ode. But it is possible that I may have missed something.
Also, the source: Myers, John Linton. Who Were the Greeks? University of California Press, 1967, is cited for the other Greek gods, but I just checked the University of Cal website, and nothing came up for this book in their archives. However, it does appear on Amazon under a different publisher. Therefore, the page numbers cited may not be accurate either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Novoneiro (talk • contribs) 17:25, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
Britain
What's the percentage of light brown/blond hair in Britain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nero011 (talk • contribs) 10:58, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
- For the east coast of Britain it's 60%, there are a lot of sources but most revert back to same source which is the 'Blonde Map of Europe'. , , . Zarcadia (talk) 19:29, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Relation to age - Recent change to show up to 16% natural blond is based on a citation in an article that has not been proven.
As blond hair tends to turn brunette with age, natural blond hair is rare. Natural blond hair is rare in adulthood, with claims of the world's population ranging from 2% naturally blond to 16 percent.
I have searched and searched and cannot find a single source other than the article cited on this entry that shows up to 16% of the world being naturally blond in adulthood. Sixxgirl77 (talk) 17:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Blond, not light brown
Since this article is about blond, I think the map should be removed; light brown counts as brown. Melaneas (talk) 18:06, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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Too many pictures of classical representations
I never thought I would be saying this, but this article clearly has way to many pictures of classical sculptures and paintings depicting blonds. There are thirteen rows of pictures. Over half the article is a photo gallery. I will be clearing out some of the less notable depictions and depictions where the blond hair is not clearly visible or easily discernable to the naked eye. --Katolophyromai (talk) 22:13, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
- I went in and cleared out a whole bunch of images where the blond hair could not easily be seen without clicking on the image to enlarge it. I may remove a few more images in the future because there are still a lot of them, but now the number of images is not too terribly outrageous. --Katolophyromai (talk) 22:49, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
- Katolophyromai, thanks for this and this. Yes, some editors need to familiarize themselves with WP:Gallery. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:20, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
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platinum blond currently redirects here. This needs a hatnote. Please add:
"platinum blond" redirects here. Not to be confused with Platinum Blonde.{{redirect-distinguish|platinum blond|Platinum Blonde}}
-- 65.94.42.131 (talk) 11:23, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
Done 
Swedish Blonde
It's One Of My Favorite Natural Hair Colors. LaShondaFelton01 (talk) 00:34, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
- It is unclear what changes you wish to be made to the article. --Katolophyromai (talk) 17:06, 30 July 2017 (UTC)