Can South Asians have blue eyes?

There are plenty of blue-eyed Asians. This probably happens when the traditional blue-eyed allele comes into a family from a (possibly very distant) European ancestor. Blue eyes then resurface in a child generations later if they inherit the allele from both parents.

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What is the common eye color in South Asia?

Dark brown eyes are dominant in humans. In many parts of the world, it is nearly the only iris color present. Brown eyes are common in Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas.

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What color eyes do South East Asians have?

Interestingly enough, dark brown eyes are most common in Southeast Asia, East Asia and Africa. Light brown shades are most often seen in West Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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What tribe in Asia has blue eyes?

The Buton tribe, inhabitants of the island of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi, developed characteristic blue eyes as a result of a rare genetic disorder called Waardenburg syndrome. It is said that not all Butonese have the condition, which may or may not be inherited, according to the National Library of Medicine.

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Can an Indian have blue eyes?

Some Indians can have light eyes naturally without being mixed with any European. This Indian girl with blue eyes did a DNA test and the results were that she is 99% Indian with no European blood. A lot of mixed Indian kids also get light eyes.

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What is the rarest eye color in India?

EYE COLORS: The most common eye color is Brown . The rare colors are Blue and Green. More rare still are Black, Amber and Violet. The rarest of the rare is Red.

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Can blacks have blue eyes?

Blue is the second most common eye color globally, with an estimated 8 to 10 % of people having blue eyes. A majority of these people are of European descent, however, Black people can be born with blue eyes even though it's pretty rare.

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Can Asians have amber eyes?

Amber. Amber eyes, which have slightly more melanin than hazel eyes but not as much as brown eyes, account for about 5% of the world's population. People of Asian, Spanish, South American, and South African descent are most likely to have amber eyes.

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Can Asians have blonde hair?

Blond hair has also developed in other populations, although it is usually not as common, and can be found among natives of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji, among the Berbers of North Africa, and among some Asians.

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Why do Southeast Asians have different eyes?

The main difference in eye shape is the way the upper eyelid meets the inner corner of the eye. In many ethnicities, including East Asians, Southeast Asians, Polynesians and Native Americans, there is commonly a slight fold at this point, called an 'epicanthic fold'.

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Can Filipinos have blue eyes?

Blue eyes are extremely rare for Filipino ethnic individuals as well as other East Asians. The average Filipino has dark brown eyes.

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Do Southeast Asians have almond eyes?

Asian eyes are commonly stereotyped to be slanty, almond shaped, and small. However, it's not uncommon for Asians to have big and round eyes, and yet they still unmistakably look Asian.

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What is the most common eye color in Australia?

"In Australians of European ancestry, the percentage of eye colours are 45 percent blue-grey, 30 percent green-hazel and 25 percent brown. If you're considering non-European ancestry it is the almost completely brown eye colour."

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Which eye colour is very attractive?

When broken down by gender, men ranked gray, blue, and green eyes as the most attractive, while women said they were most attracted to green, hazel, and gray eyes. Despite brown eyes ranking at the bottom of our perceived attraction scale, approximately 79% of the world's population sports melanin-rich brown eyes.

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What color are most Korean eyes?

While dark brown is definitely the most common eye color among Koreans, there are a few who deviate from the standard.

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Can Chinese girls have green eyes?

Green eyes naturally occur in all races of people. Liqian, China is a hot spot for green eyes. There is a village in China called Liqian, in which two-thirds of all inhabitants today have green eyes and blonde hair. Green eyes and blonde hair are a rare combination.

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Can mixed Asians have green eyes?

This means that no matter what colour eyes your parents have, yours can be pretty much any colour. All races, including Caucasian, African, Asian, Pacific Islanders, Arabic, Hispanic and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas can have green eyes.

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What is the rarest eyes in the world?

Green is the rarest eye color in the world, with only 2% of the world's population (and fewer than one out of ten Americans) sporting green peepers, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

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Can half Asians have blue eyes?

It's rare, but yes. Eye color isn't decided by just two genes, it's actually decided by over 10 different genetics factors, so if one parent is white and the other is Asian, the Asian parent can pass down any gene from their bloodline (even mixed genes) causing the child to have blue eyes.

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Which country has most blue eyes?

Iceland, the northernmost country of the bunch, has the greatest percentage of people with blue eyes.

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Can half Japanese have blue eyes?

However, for a half Japanese to have blue eyes, both parents have to have a foreign Caucasian ancestor in their family who had blue eyes. Eye color is not determined by one or two genes but by a mix of about 16 different genes. The skeletal structure of the iris is also said to select eye color to some extent.

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Did blue eyes originate in Africa?

“The mutations responsible for blue eye colour most likely originate from the north-west part of the Black Sea region, where the great agricultural migration of the northern part of Europe took place in the Neolithic periods about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago,” the researchers report in the journal Human Genetics….

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Is black hair blue eyes common?

Black hair and blue eyes is a much more rare combination than is blonde hair and blue eyes. The reason why these two traits are linked is that the genes responsible for hair and eye color happen to be close together on the same chromosomes.

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How common are blue eyes in Africa?

In northern Europe, nearly everyone has blue eyes, but that number drops dramatically everywhere else, to the point where blue eyes are practically nonexistent in South America, Asia, and Africa. The least common eye color is green.

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