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Why is Jesus always painted as a light skin light brown haired guy ?

Asked by Scarlett (915points) November 23rd, 2010

Just wondering how come Jesus is always portrayed as having fair skin, with light brown hair if he lived in the middle east ? Shouldn’t he have middle eastern features ? Also Jesus is always pictures as having a really small American nose – if he was in the middle east wouldn’t he have a nose that is more prominent ?

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