Reply To: ashkenaz

Actually guys and gals I’m writing from an ashkenaz perspective so NO, I am not being one sided or saying sephardim are better. Just want to know if there is truth to what the other side boasts about.
And regardless of all the pretty answers given here, the bottom line is that originally the skin tone of Yidden was darker and not pale white as someone here quoted the Talmud. And I can understand that it changed but when you look at Latinos, blacks, Chinese/asian, indian, Arabs, Africans, and so on, you see that they have had the same skin tone and features from day one.
Why is it that only Yidden changed and they haven’t. Have they not had intermarriage?
Besides I was wondering if ashkenaz jews skin tone became lighter over the years naturally or was a result of intermarriage which is disappointing. Is 1500 years enough to totally change ones skin tone and features naturally? When I say features I also mean hair, as in lightly haired or heavily vehamaivin yavin.
I’m just asking these questions because I once heard a dispute where sephardim were discussing amongst themselves how that sephardi is the original nusach of yisrael since the origins of yidden are of sephardi/mizrachi countries.
So I guess the real question is how did ashkenaz nusach come about and was the sephardi mizrachi nusach really the original and does it trace back to those times?
Didn’t the shevatim each have there own nusach so how would that work?