Talk:Human skin color/Archives/2008/April

Eyes color

Non-white people are only brown-eyed, it's impossible for a non-white person to naturally have non-brown eyes, the only way is to have one white parent, & one non-white, then he/she may earn his white parent's eye-color, which may be blue, green or hazel, but multiracial people are very rarely non-brown-eyed.

Thats far from the truth, their are a lot of dark-skinned people on both sides that Have light eyes. Not that light eyes are anything to admire. --65.188.253.47 01:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

The fact that you mention anything about 'admiration' of light eyes makes it sound as though you bear some racial or ethnic prejudices. Even if it is only your aesthetic opinion, it could easily be interpretted as derisory to people with light eyes in general. --72.39.204.249 16:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

When I was in India there were people there (that were darker than most blacks) that had blue eyes.Cameron Nedland 16:36, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Forget it, I'm full Chinese and my right eye is already look hazel while left eye is golden brown.

Person who put that about it being impossible for a non-white to naturally have non-brown eyes, you were greatly misinformed.

Not necessarily. See Indo-Aryan migration, Tocharians and Seres for information on why some "dark-skinned" groups, especially in India and China, may have white admixture. --Jugbo 21:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Mmm. I just noticed this: "not that light eyes are anything to admire." Well, yes, they are. They're a reproductive, or sexual, adaptation, meaning that they confer no environmental advantage, like camouflage or speed, on their carriers, who are rather supposed to look better to the opposite sex because of them. They're similar to art. Whether or not you personally like Michelangelo's David, it was meant to be admired. --Jugbo 15:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

i dont think like you in my country (before haliwood movies )many years before cultural attacks of chalcy people (very white)people admired black eyes

if we are talking about a correlation between eye pigmentation and the concentration of melanin in the skin. I do not believe you have a scientific basis for making that conclusion. The Wikipedia article "Eye color" lists references 12,13, and 14 as material related to this. You may wish to examine those references before making a generalization. While the altering of code in gene OCA2 has impact on skin, hair and eye colour, it is not sufficient to conclude that a high concentration of melanin in the skin is incompatible with a low concentration in the eyes, and in fact, there are living, human examples to refute your hypothesis. A quick GIS turned up http://www.africancolours.net/media/10929_2_03,%20Miss%20Richard%20Wachira.jpg 72.53.30.175 (talk) 16:44, 20 April 2008 (UTC)