Talk:High cheekbones
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Racial and ethnic groups with high cheekbones edit
After making some anthropological research I claim that high cheekbones should be mostly associated with people and ethnicities who have their deepest ethnic origin in Asia, that is: Asians (especially East Asians), Slavs (Eastern European and Eurasian Slavic peoples), and finally Native Americans (and therefore also some Hispanics). The one non-Asiatic exception are people of Black African origin, especially those from East Africa who also often have considerably high cheekbones. The only two things I can't understand are: how come Scandinavians were listed as having high cheekbones, and how come Italians and Spanish people are listed there too, while not so many people from these ethnic gropus have high cheekbones. Could someone present me some scientific, genetic or anthropological data about them having high cheekbones? I think someone is confusing strong jaws or PROMINENT cheekbones with HIGH cheekbones. "Prominent" does not mean "high". Nearly all high cheekbones are prominent, but not all prominent cheekbones are high. The same is with the nose. The aquiline nose - which is common among Native Americans, Semites (Arabs and Jews), Persians, Armenians, Indians, or people from Southern Europe and the Horn of Africa - is usually prominent, and not all prominent noses are aquiline or "hooked", but nearly all aquiline noses are prominent. 78.8.237.145 (talk) 19:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Yes, there isn't any ref for Italian, Spanish and Scandinavians. Also, I'm surprised that who would think that those people have high cheekbones? Anyway, since there isn't any ref, I'm removing those 3 but I'm not gonna remove EE people. If anyone adds ref to them feel free to change my edit. BöriShad (talk) 11:21, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
The images of an ancestral species and a native american chief side by side seems unnecessary and likely to offend. 216.165.95.64 (talk) 23:18, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
What are High Cheekbones Anyway? edit
I read the article and the definition seems to be obfuscated by random pictures and verbiage dealing mostly (in my understanding) with prominent, mongoloid cheekbones, protruding brow ridges and large orbits.
In my mind high cheekbones means small orbits. 67.206.184.216 (talk) 21:43, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
High cheekbones edit
But what if "High cheekbones" does refer to seem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.55.56.235 (talk) 04:27, 19 August 2016 (UTC)