in yugoslavia it's probably about 30% and there is a lot of blondes there as well, and a small population of reds
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yeah, it's not even accurate to call it a minority...
in the balkans there isn't a majority of anything as far as ethnotypes go, it's the most mixed ethnicities in a single countrty anywhere, this is part of the reason why they have a very different view of government there, because such diversity combined with "representative democracy is a failure
in bulgaria, about 10% are turks, 15% are cigani, about 20% are russian type, if not recent immigrants as you find in the east, about 30% are the classic dark hair dark skin, and about 25% are the dark/blue and redheads... there is even a tiny number, maybe 1-2%, of people with literal afro hair, and a lot of them have blue eyes (one of my best mates was like this)
It's the combination of dark hair and light eyes that is so interesting, tho, and that's harder to achieve.
It's a hybrid thing I guess... There is smaller odds of inbreeding when the gene pools are distant, and mixes of widely different genes tends to produce greater vigor and resilience.