Originally posted by asmeone2
My dad, me, and both of my siblings have green eyes, but very dark brown hair.
I think the green eyes/red hair combination is a specific trait most common to Irish people...at least that's what the sterotype is... and that side
of my family is from Wales so I'd imagine there could easily be a genetic concentration there.
THough I think that eye color and hair color are two separate traits entirely.
Funny you should say that. My mother had green eyes and very dark hair while my daughter has green eyes and red hair. Our family history (both my
mother's side and my father's side) going back 7 generations (it's tough to get back much further than that) is from south Ireland.
One of my nephews is blond with the bluest eyes I've ever seen. Obviously, he's Irish as well, but his mother is a Scot (which is essentially the
same thing because the word scot originally meant "inhabitant of Ireland". When the Irish invaded north England and settled there, the English
began to call it "land of the scots"). Other than that most of our family have brown eyes, which I think is more typical for Irish. But we all
have green hats.
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