[sneakypete]

Hungarians are a mixed people.

They share a language root with only two other groups of people,the Finns,and a tribe of original Russian "Indians" (for lack of a better word)called the Mari. Since the Mari look and lived exactly like American Indians,and the Finns also had a similiar appearance,I'm thinking the Picts originated in what is now called Hungary,and they are the "missing link" in this stew pot. They were a traveling people,and I strongly suspect they were the original "Vikings",too. This would help explain why this group of white people had a language built on the same base as the Asiatic-looking Mari and Finns.

[rmlew]

Hungarians look "white" because they conquered the Danube valley's slavic inhabitants and intermarried over time. There were enough Magyars to keep cultural cohesion and they defined the new synthetic people.
On the other hand, the Balkan Bulgars were Bulghars who conquered part of the Balkans but lacked the numbers to dominate the culture. To a large degree they were assimilated by the local slavs and heavily influenced by the Byzantines. The Volga Bulghars kept their culture and language, chuvash.

The Picts have nothing to do with this.
If you want more information on steppe peoples check out http://www.geocities.com/kaganate/ .

[mamelukesabre]

Finns are not asiatic looking, at least not the ones that I've seen. THe ones I've seen look very european but they are noticably darker than their swedish neighbors, which isn't saying much since your average white american would be noticeably darker than a swede.