Why do white people have different colored eyes?
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Here's a better question for you. Why does white people have different colored eyes than Asians, Blacks, or Mexicans? You never seen a mexican with deep blue eyes or green eyes unless they marry a white guy. You always see asian and other race than white, have brown eyes or darker shades of brown. And they have different hair colors than the rest of the other races, blond, brunnette, red etc. And yet some of white people are very racist, why?
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Answer:
Melanin pigment found in human skin, iris, hair comes in many shades: yellow-gold-green-brown-dark brown-almost black is from weakest to strongest shades Thus humans have HUGE variation in their skin shades, the eye colors and their hair colors (even without the use of artificial hair dyes, contact lenses or tanning tonics-tanning booths) The darker races you mention USUALLY have the heaviest distribution of the darker shades of melanin than others, but once there is mixing of these gene pools with lighter skinned humans, all sorts of things can happen, including the various shades of green eyes and lighter skin. Some scientists believe that skin shade is transmitted by polygenetic genetics, so numerous genes are involved. Most texts still explain eye color as simple complete dominance genetics, but I believe we are not to the bottom of this issue yet and that it is much more complex than this...i.e. that there are more factors involved than one gene. The hair color thing is at the very LEAST dihybrid genetics, esp when you start adding the red to the melanin. Red pigment is different than the melanin and when mixed with all the different shades of melanin can give a whole slough of different color combinations in hair. It is possible to find many people of those darker melanin "races" to have lighter eyes, hair or skin, but it is just rarer due to the gene pools. As the percent of interracial mixing increases and the number of caucasians continues to decrease all over the planet, the percent of humans with the darker melanin will increase and the lighter blondes, blue-green eyes will decrease. It is happening fast as we look at the spots on the earth where the population is exploding the most.....all the darker pigmented humans Racism in humans has been around since the dawn of time. All ethnic groups have their "time" on the earth when they are more or less accepted or more or less rejected and subjected to prejudice than during other eras. Law of Karma keeps dishing out the "same ole, same ole"......same with prejudice against a cultural group......cultures come to the TOP and cultures drop to the bottom....just like businesses......there is a nature cyle in life....all things will have their hayday and all things will have their time of demise. Look at history. Not much new really happens in history. Fashion and hairstyles may change, but the human games and stories don't really change much! Duality-polarities of life exist as a part of natural law and is how karma operates! You know...."the dark and light sides of the force." Ignorance breeds ignorance, hate breeds hate, love breeds love, tolerance breeds tolerance, compassion breeds compassion. You're either ready, willing or able to be tolerant or you aren't! Tough lessons for many on this planet still even though human history is filled with horrific records (potential lessons! You'd think we could learn and make some progress!) of the human atrocities lower consciousness humans inflict upon other humans. Some have to learn thru pain, though. Some can learn from watching the pain and suffering of others. Some love to inflict pain no matter what, are just more animal like in their "struggle for survival" in a "dog eat dog" world. It is amazing to me that even with all the genocide in human history on various sides of the earth that we humans would get a clue! "Father, forgiove them, for they know not what they do!"
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Darthritus
genetics, DNA
jivesucka
Its all about genetics. All people have different colored eyes. Your Iris is like a finger print every ones is unique
RYAN B
Uh..i have brown hair and brown eyes..also not racist.
Southpaw
Congratulations, you noticed. My ex boyfriend is Indian. My has hazel eyes. My sister's boyfriend is also Indian. He has green eyes. Many other Asians I know have either hazel or green eyes. And you are being racist in saying that white people are racist. Good luck to you, sir.
funkymonkey
My daughters are mixed with black and white. My youngest daughter has blonde hair and hazel eyes. It depends on the genes of the family.
mamacas00
Im not really sure, but im guessing genetics play a big part in this..
Fabe
its just in our genes. THe same could go for why a blacks have dark hair. they just do.
iarewill
What you are asking about is the greater diversity found in those of European descent. The answer lies in the fact that Europe was populated by the greatest diversity. It's been invaded by everyone from Genghis Khan to the Huns. When so many different sets of DNA gets mixed together, your chances for mutation is that much greater. A more homogeneous DNA pool, as found in China per say, leads to a more homogeneous population. IE, china has dark hair, dark eyes, etc. But in Europe we see the DNA from many many groups mixed together. Diversity breeds diversity. EDIT: Regarding the second part to your question. Racism is considered instinctive in humans. Along our evolutionary development, humans live in isolated tribes, foraging in the local area for their needs. Another tribe coming over the hill meant increased competition for those resources. Humans are instinctive suspicious of people who are ‘different’, i.e. Not of their ‘tribe’. This tendency toward racism is an evolutionary legacy. However, even during my life time, I’ve seen a very positive trend away from racism within our species. With our world society developing an every more specialized population, humans are increasingly thinking of themselves as individuals. This trend towards individualism, is also a trend away from ‘tribe’ thinking, and hence a trend away from racist thinking. Each generation loses a little of that instinctive racisms. Each generation gains a little more incite to the commonality of all humans.
TechnoRat60
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