Would you say that it is much harder for many Irish and British people to pass in southern France?

[Septentrion]

Northern Italians are darker in large part because of mixing with Southern Italian migrants since the 60s. Actually a lot are even entirely of Southern Italian parentage and many have a South Italian parent or grandparent. I don't know if or when the large migration from South to North stopped, but there are millions of Northern Italians of partial or full South Italian origin. These are mainly in the cities and towns and the village population is supposedly unaffected by this. A former Northern Italian member with the username Peyrol said many years ago that Northern Italians from villages and very many in urban areas too are significantly lighter in skin, hair and eyes pigmentation because they are the real and unmixed Northern Italians, who are like ethnic French or at least Southern French in pigmentation.

You might have a point in this. As far as I know and have known Italians. They are as a rule a dark or swarthy European group. Very few European groups are that dark. Although there are record of towns and villages in the very northern parts of Italy which have scored from 15% to a 25% for fair hair (from darkest to lightest shades). These areas are similar to places in southern parts of France. There are also plenty of Alpinid phenotypes in the northwestern part of Italy, as well as quite a few Norid (Nordid+Dinarid mix). Most likely lighter-pigmented people are more numerous where there was less intermixing between North and South Italians.

[Septentrion]

Their features are nice but they are a bit too dark for my taste, I like the pale ones.

You know beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You'd rather go for someone who is pale, but has ugly features, right? I believe in the balance between the two.

[Oliver109]

You know beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You'd rather go for someone who is pale, but has ugly features, right? I believe in the balance between the two.

Lol I would choose the dark one over the plain pale girl but ideally I would prefer an attractive pale girl. Don't get me wrong I find dark women, even some Africans attractive but I simply prefer pale over everything.