Europe is heavily blended, as the borders have switched around for centuries.
Even Brits are a mongrel race, having been invaded and completely overtaken in wave after wave - until 1066 of course.
There are certain "types" of course.
I can pictures archetypal Italians, Scots, Spaniards, Scandanavians. But then I bet you could too. I could even have a stab at a Dutch man - less so a Dutch woman.
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Because us Americans, we can't tell where anybody's from, we move around so much and we're such a new country and all.
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I think it's more because you're all interbred (niot meant as a slur - couldn't think of a better way to put it).
I know many Americans claim to be half this and half that, but they are talking about the ethnicity of their family when they entered the country. Of course it's hard to recognise the features from one Irish woman and one Polish man in the family in 1850 or whatever.
Even over here, once someone marries (procreates) with someone not born and bred in the same area it lessens the chance of a "type". My own family is mixed - Grandad's generation do look Irish to me, Mum much less so. And I don't think you can see it in any of my generation at all, although I inherited the easily burned skin, that could have come from Nanny who was thoroughly English.
So I guess my answer is no.
As with all of the above, it is my personal answer and opinion. I couldn't dare assume I spoke for any other European on the Cellar!