What Old European men thought of the Worlds women

[Gara Man]

Just thought id share what came across to fit to what seems like the reoccuring theme across the board.
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- Native from North America, generalized : "wide shoulders, long arms and massive hips in harmony with a capacious pelvis"

- Arawak from Guiana : "fine bodily proportions, round muscular limbs and an almost classical cast of features" ; large black eyes ; "extremely graceful and feminine" ; profiles described as "purely Greek"

- Patagonians : "very shapely and muscular"

- Tlingit : known for small hands and feet

- East Greenlanders : "taller, slenderer women [compared to West Greenlanders] of much pleasanter physique and appearance"

- Greenlanders in the main : "her brown skin is clear and wholesome, her cheeks round and smooth" ; "her physical features are enhanced by her cheerful spontaneous gaiety and by a considerable amount of coquetry"

- Mexicans from the urban areas : "lustrous black eyes and raven hair" ; "dazzling teeth" ; "they move with extreme grace"

- Natives from Australia (i.e. Aboriginals) : "such a graceful carriage of the head, such elegance of movement - whether of body or limbs - that they might have been brought up in the highest circles of our European Society" ; from Southern Australia, "finest symmetry, with firm, round limbs, her skin like dusky velvet and her full lips visibly red and parting to show the best set of ivory-white teeth, gleaming like pearls"

- Easter Islanders : "faces very round in youth" ; "curiously lax and tired-looking features"

- Gilbert Islanders : "slender limbs" ; "pleasant faces" ; "long black curls, regular features of animation and intelligence, well-developed foreheads and bright, dark eyes"

- Natives from New Zealand (i.e. 'Maori') : "very muscular and agile" ; "some handsome and stately figures"

- Samoans : "prettiness and good looks abound" ; "fine structure and outline of the thorax, whose ribs have never been distorted and compressed by stays" ; "the long, classic, slightly convergent lines sweep from arm-pits to waist and then boldly outwards to the hips" ; "faces very regular and attractive"

- Marquesas Islanders : "softly rounded faces, large sparkling eyes, lovely teeth and skins glowing with health"

- Tahitians : "warm pink cheeks which slow blushes" ; "great laughing, lustrous eyes and sweet smiles" ; usually tall when from the aristocracy

- Hawaiians : "pretty" ; "comely" ; "very shapely" ; aristocratic women being "very powerfully built"

- Egyptians : "uncommonly graceful" ; "shoulders and arms very shapely"

- Arabians : "skins warmly golden" ; "their hair a dense blackness with a tinge of metallic blue" ; "their eyes the deepest wells of darkness with silken lashes" ; "their figures slender with delicate bones and rounded curves" ; "half rose, half gold" in describing the color of their cheeks

- Somalis : "sometimes pleasant faces" ; "their necks are finely shaped, the hips narrow, but pelvis wide with marked gluteal development - they move with ease and agility" ; "full, well-formed breasts"

- Oromo : "so vivacious" ; "full rounded arms" ; "much shorter in stature than the men"

- Berta from the Upper Nile : "the perfect proportions of antique statues"

- Habab : "handsome in youth"

- Beja : "not unattractive in youth" ; "dainty slender bodies and noticeably firm, well-developed breasts"

- Danakil & Saho : "tall, noble-looking and finely-made women"

- 'Abyssinia' proper : "often charming and most engaging in their manners" ; rounder, rather than oval, faces ; "their foreheads prominent but not high, their muths large and their chins often double

- Saurta & Terroa from the Mt. Gedem region : "pleasant faces" ; shorter statured compared to the men ; "exceptionally small" hands

- Bahima from Tanganyika : "decidedly well-built"

- Natives from 'Gaboon' : "their hands and feet are shapely, their eyes full of expression and their noses comparatively high bridged" ; "their mouths are not too large and their teeth are flawless"

- Natives from interior Madagascar : "all have slender, muscular, well-proportioned shapes, unconfined by corsets"

- Basuto : "superb figures" ; "some of the younger girls have beautiful figures"

- Zulu : "some exquisite figures with faces full of character and intelligence" ; Angoni women in particular being "often quite beautiful and apt to inspire enthusiastic passion in their partners"

- Chinese : "the shape and setting of their eyes often gives a certain piquancy"

- Japanese : "grace of movement and manner" ; "her round childish face is full of expression" ; "her slightly oblique, black eyes have an extremely mischievous expression"

- Tibetans : "tolerably good-looking faces" ; "lighter skins and more evenly set teeth than their men"

- Aru Islanders : "quite graceful and pretty" ; "fine womanly figures and grace of movement"

- 'Singhalese' from 'Ceylon' (i.e. Sri Lanka) : "examples of face and form - apart from the skin-colour (an additional attraction to some) - would be considered quite beautiful, or at least very comely in Europe" ; "beautiful, erect carriage, soft skin, firm breasts, rounded buttocks and well-formed feet"

- Dyak from Borneo : figures "extemely graceful" ; "their faces pleasant"

- Malayan types in Java (i.e. pureblooded) : "beautifully shaped" ; "there is something very graceful and agreeable in their [faces'] appearance"

- Javanese in the main : "many pretty figures with well-shaped breasts" ; "graceful, rhythmically swaying gait" ; "their black hair has sometimes a faint reddish tinge in certain lights" ; "their lower limbs are proportionately short and slender"

- Filipinas from the Igorrote : "features as delicately cut, and skins as white as any pretty European girls"

- Nayar from southern India : "extremely dainty, strictly clean in their habits and persons, of very graceful and seductive appearance, and, in spite of the intense heat of the climate in which they live, their skin is much whiter than that of most Indians"

- Hindu : "tenderly emotional and passionate nature" ; "great dark, luminous eyes, thick brows and lashes, the shoulders, arms and bosom of a Greek statue, and little feet, free from the deformity of tight shoes and displayed to advantage by anklets"

- Circassian : "attractive and handsome" ; "very white skins and good figures" ; "high foreheads, black pencilled eyebrows, lustrous eyes, finely shaped nose and rosy, laughing mouth showing beautiful teeth : the chin well rounding off the perfect oval of the face"

- Mingrelian : "lovely and majestic women" ; "splendid figures and classical faces" ; "eyes that captivate all whom they behold"

- Georgian : "height, grace and perfect proportions" ; "their walk being particularly easy and agile"

- Armenian : "a robust, full-blown vigorous beauty" ; "full and fine proportions, corpulence, white skins, aquiline profiles and large long-lashed eyes" ; "fine figures among them" ; "regular features, oval faces, bright black eyes and dense black hair"

- Persian : "medium height and neither thin nor stout" ; "large, well-opened, almond-shaped eyes, languorous and sensuous, and finely arched eyebrows meeting over the root of the nose" ; round rather than oval faces were the ideal (i.e. "the lady with face like the moon") ; "exquisitely shaped feet and hands, broad lips and bosom" ; "a skin more olive than fair" ; very thick, dark chestnut-tinted hair ; they paint the face and blacken the eyebrows ; "in carriage and movement elegant, easy and agile"

- Yarkand Daria area : "generally pretty with fresh, pleasant faces and small, shapely feet"

- 'Goklen' : "very pretty with warm, nut-brown and ruddy tones in their complexions, regular features, pleasant and intelligent expressions and piercing black eyes"

- 'Turkomen' : "blonde and often pretty"

- Siberian Tatars : "the women's faces are notably regular and sometimes pleasant" ; "their skin is much whiter than the men's, their hair long and very dark" ; "softly rounded bodies" ; "well-made hands and feet" ; "they carry their shoulders well"

- Yakuts : "very well built with regular features, black sparkling eyes and much animation"

- 'Kalmuck' (i.e. Kalmyk) : a beauty was described among them by Kollmann as being tall yet endowed of strength and slimness, attended by small hands and delicacy of skeletal form ; her slightly convex nose stood out in contrast from the relative "flatness" of her face ; her long-lashed, thin-lidded eyes almost completely lacked the epicanthic fold, which was considered by Kollmann as being wholly different from other 'Kalmuck' and Samoyed peoples, and even went as far as to say that her overall look could fit in southern Hungary

- 'Chukchees' (i.e. Chukchi) : "rather pleasant looking"

- Southern Germans : Upper Bavaria - "slightly tanned" ; "often black-haired" ; "slender muscular figure" ; "deep brown laughing eyes, full of spirit and vivacity" ; Bavarian highlands - basically the same as the above, but blonde in exchange for black, blue in lieu of brown

- Swedish from Dalecarlia : "apple blossoms floating in milk" regarding complexion ; "delicacy of coloring and skin texture"

- Central Russian : light-eyed, "the glance direct and friendly, full of gaiety" but not intense ; ashen or flaxen hair is typical

- Ukrainian : "much warmer and livelier temperament" than northerners ; "her eyes are dark and full of expression, her black hair is bound round with a becoming snood or fillet" with a "resemblance to the Polish type in her slenderness and grace of build"

- Polish : "amongst the most admired racial types of Europe and the world" ; "their features are almost classical in their regularity" ; "graceful" ; good "taste in dress and general appearance" ; "more delicate and their skin color seems transparent and finer" ; "their dark eyes are full of vivacity" ; "has a grace which is only approached by women of Mediterranean lands"

- Turkish from Istanbul : "very white skins" ; "short stature" ; "black eyes, soft red / rather full lips, oval faces, small noses, round chins" ; "their necks are long and supple and their feet dainty and small"

- Turkish (Osmanli) : "luxuriant hair and fine eyes, more often dark than blue"

- Montenegro : generally shorter-statured than the men and "graceful in their girlhood"

- 'Serbian' (i.e. Croatian) from between the borders of 'Old Serbia and Austria' : "powerful, thick-set figures. with greater development of breast, hips and calves, and denser hair, particularly thicker eyebrows than the dwellers in the vast plains" ; "something of the Greek type" in their faces

- Serbian : "very fine looking women" ; "features of classic regularity and often of really surprising beauty" ; "their dark eyes and hair and pale but lustrous skins set off their beauty of line and ensemble"

- Bulgarians : "high-coloured, fresh-complexioned"

- 'Roumanians' : "very pretty with graceful, rounded supple figures, brown skins, black eyes and hair"

- Maltese : "not Italians, nor do they resemble Greeks" ; "there is something Arabian about their oval faces, sharply cut aquiline noses, and glowing eyes under thick lashes" ; "tall and slender and their complexions dark"

- Portuguese : "differs from the Spanish in many respects" ; "she is quieter, more serene and reserved, less addicted to dance and all public festivities" ; "a precious but faded work of art, with an aura about her of centuries of memories" ; "the sensual vitality of the Spaniard is lacking in her"

- Spanish : "their appearance expresses their temperament" ; "beautifully moulded figures, their grace and dignity of movement, their resonant voices, the dark brilliance of their eyes and the vivacity of their gestures" ; "an Andalusian is the most likely of all women in the world to suggest and tempt men to abduct her by her mere appearance and manner"

- 'Italian' : their "dark eyes" are seen favorably by a plurality of observers ; "the magnificently proportioned figures and majestic carriage of the Roman women par excellence" ; additionally :

[Yoousef]

Very smart man looked at all the important the physical traits.

Serbian and swedish have the best descriptions just as I expected

[Advo]

Gotdammm that white man tapped all of em? Honkey has been pimpn since pimpin since pimpin!

[BadrSomal]

Nonsense saxib, this is not what old european men thought of world women, but one man wrote about different women, it seems he was forced to just write positives, as thats all he says. And I had to laugh at the Oromos

"so vivacious" ; "full rounded arms" ; "much shorter in stature than the men"

what does that even mean

[Gara Man]

^^Actually it was what 2 men wrote about women and you are right there is a focus on positves descriptions not the negatives but friend why not have the same laugh about what was written about soamlis?

...pelvis wide with marked gluteal development - they move with ease and agility...

[BadrSomal]

^^Actually it was what 2 men wrote about women and you are right there is a focus on positves descriptions not the negatives but friend why not have the same laugh about what was written about soamlis?

...pelvis wide with marked gluteal development - they move with ease and agility...

nice try this is the whole thing:

- Somalis : "sometimes pleasant faces" ; "their necks are finely shaped, the hips narrow, but pelvis wide with marked gluteal development - they move with ease and agility" ; "full, well-formed breasts"