Hartmann was the son of a doctor and had an adventurous mother who was a glider pilot. [66], The ethnic Miao people of Guizhou province from China are a subgroup of Hmong people and were described with blue eyes and blonde hair. [111] In the older versions of the story of Tristan and Iseult, Tristan falls in love with Iseult after seeing only a single lock of her long, blond hair. [106] In medieval artwork, female saints are often shown with long, shimmering blond hair, which emphasizes their holiness and virginity. [115] In the 1920s, the eugenicist Eugen Fischer invented a hair palette called the Fischer scale that he said could categorize racial typology—these typologies were abandoned after World War II. Eric V. Alvarez (2002). In contemporary popular culture, blonde women are stereotyped as being more sexually attractive to men than women with other hair colors. [91] Blonde jokes are a class of jokes based on the stereotype of blonde women as unintelligent. [91][118] In Brazil, this extends to blonde women being looked down upon, as reflected in sexist jokes, as also sexually licentious. not proper mummies) dating to Roman times have been found in the Fagg El Gamous cemetery in Egypt. [38][39] In Italy, a study of Italian men conducted by Ridolfo Livi between 1859 and 1863 on the records of the National Conscription Service showed that 8.2% of Italian men exhibited blond hair; blondism frequency displayed a wide degree of regional variation, ranging from around 12.6% in Veneto to 1.7% among the Sardinians. Most authorities, especially French, attest to the Frankish origin. Emperor Lucius Verus (r. 161–169 AD) was said to sprinkle gold-dust on his already "golden" blond hair to make it even blonder and brighter. [91] For example, Anita Loos popularized this idea in her 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The earliest known individual with the derived allele is the ANE Afontova Gora 3 individual, dated to 14,700 years ago. [33] A significant majority of Caucasian women (perhaps as high as three in four)[clarification needed] dye their hair blond, a significantly higher percentage than for any other hair color. However, linguists who favor a Latin origin for the word say that Medieval Latin blunduscode: lat promoted to code: la was a vulgar pronunciation of Latin flavuscode: lat promoted to code: la , also meaning "yellow". [45] This mutation is at a frequency of 26% in the Solomon Islands and is absent outside of Oceania. "[7] Another hair color word of French origin, brunette (from the same Germanic root that gave "brown"), functions in the same way in orthodox English. [83] The Greeks thought of the Thracians who lived to the north as having reddish-blond hair. In western Europe during the Middle Ages, long, blond hair was idealized as the paragon of female beauty. (1994). The word "blond" is first documented in English in 1481[1] and derives from Old French blund, blont, meaning "a colour midway between golden and light chestnut". The OED quotes Grant Allen, "The nation which resulted... being sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette. [91], In the 1950s, American actress Marilyn Monroe's screen persona centered on her blond hair and the stereotypes associated with it, especially dumbness, naïveté, sexual availability and artificiality. |  Official Sites, Ranked #40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll with her sister, Ranked #57 on VH1's Greatest Hard Rock Artists with her sister. Some linguists[who?] [78] Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was often described as golden-haired and portrayed with this color hair in art. Publicity Listings The derived allele of KITLG associated with blond hair in modern Europeans is present in several individuals of the Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) lineage, and is recorded in Mesolithic Eastern Europe as associated with the Eastern European Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) lineage derived from ANE. Various subcategories of blond hair have been defined to describe the different shades and sources of the hair color more accurately. She was the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, and has since founded two record labels and composed and produced hit songs for several other artists.They include: "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera; "What You Waiting For?" Common examples include the following: A typical explanation found in the scientific literature for the evolution of light hair is related to the evolution of light skin, and in turn the requirement for vitamin D synthesis and northern Europe's seasonal less solar radiation.