Is it true that British people are relatively pale (when compared to North Americans and Australians)?

Question

Is it true that British people are relatively pale (when compared to North Americans and Australians)?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Not neccessarily. However, on the whole we might be slightly paler because it is not very sunny that often in england and in some areas of austrailia and the usa there is alot more sun than there is here. However, it is all down to genetics as well but not all english people are pale.

Answer 3

yes i am, and i love my pale skin, at least i won't get skin cancer.

Answer 4

It depends how much sun they get! I am pretty tanned right now, probably not as tanned as the average Australian but perhaps more tanned than many North Americans... I'm English, by the way. I shouldn't imagine there is much of a genetic difference between Americans and English people and there certainly isn't between Australians and us since they are mostly descendants of English emigrants.

Answer 5

Yeah, because they wouldn't get as much and such strong UV rays from the sun!

Answer 6

Yeah...the sun doesn't come out much in England and they are way north of the equator.

Answer 7

Probably to a certain extent because it isn't year round sun in UK(actually some places in the US don't have year round sun either.) However, when it gets hot here in the summer, we go brown like anyone else and loads of folks go away for holidays in the sun too.

however, you will find the Brits tend to have much lower rates of skin cancer and also they look younger that people from sunny climes because the sun is the number 1 cause of wrinkles before age or genes.

Answer 8

australians will be more tanned than me- im english. Its sunny sometimes but never long enough to get a tan, also, depends where in USA ur from, its a big place, people in NY and north of that on atlantic side are less tanned