Why Do White People Have Such Amazing Eyes?

[Anonymous]

Their eyes come in a variety of colors: blue, green, hazel, gray, aquamarine.

And all sorts of patterns.


Why is that?

How come they're not amused by it? For instance, when I have a conversation with a WP on their eyes, they're not amused by the fact that their eyes are like that? They're so blase about it.


Did a genetic mutation occur thousands of years ago that caused them to have such variations in eye color/patterns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Did a genetic mutation occur thousands of years ago that caused them to have such variations in eye color/patterns?

Yes. And genetic mutations lightened their skin.

[Anonymous]

OP,

[Anonymous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Genetic_determination

There ya go.

[Anonymous]

Well, we're probably not amused by our eyes because we've had them our whole lives.

Secondly, hello sweeping generalizations! My eyes are grayish-blue (mostly grey) and not at all amazing (or amusing) in any way. They're very blah. So just like everything else, ... yeah. Stop generalizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, we're probably not amused by our eyes because we've had them our whole lives.

Secondly, hello sweeping generalizations! My eyes are grayish-blue (mostly grey) and not at all amazing (or amusing) in any way. They're very blah. So just like everything else, ... yeah. Stop generalizing.

That's really amazing.

[Anonymous]

Eyes have nothing on red hair!

Granted, some of it is not so attractive, but on someone with yellow undertones in their skin, natural red is such a beautiful mutation.

[Anonymous]

OP here:

I love looking inside their eyes.

But I do it in a clandestine manner so I won't weird them out.

[Anonymous]

A multi-culti person with light eyes is much more of an marked and dazzling contrast to me, (like Gary Dourdan from CSI.) than light eyes on an average Caucasian.

[Anonymous]

As I understand it lighter skin is on the same series of genes as hair and eye color. It came as a mutation that worked well in northern climates which don't get as much sun/Vitamin D. Melanin prevents Vitamin D (and UV rays) from penetrating the skin, thus people with light skin (who also happened to have lighter eyes and hair) were more successful in those climates than those with darker skin and eyes.

[Anonymous]

Op, you're an embarrassment to your mother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A multi-culti person with light eyes is much more of an marked and dazzling contrast to me, (like Gary Dourdan from CSI.) than light eyes on an average Caucasian.

A blue-eyed unicorn would be much more of a dazzling contrast to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A multi-culti person with light eyes is much more of an marked and dazzling contrast to me, (like Gary Dourdan from CSI.) than light eyes on an average Caucasian.

Yes, that indeed is lovely.

I'm thinking Vanessa Williams and Nicole Lyn.

[Anonymous]

Because we're mutants.

[Anonymous]

This is why my Asian father married my European mother.