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Yeah but (and correct me if I'm wrong) that appears to be albinism which is genetic disorder that comes with a long list of health problems. The blond black kids were from the South Pacific where blond hair emerged as a natural variation.
It is interesting to see clearly how race is so much more than the color of your hair or skin. No one would mistake those people for caucasians.
A few of them look like they have Vitiligo (e.g. the top right woman and the bottom middle woman) since they have a few pigmented blotches in their face.
Yes, there are Africans and Asians who completely lack pigment due to some serious disorder like albinism or Vitiligo but fortunately this is not very common.
Black people with blonde hair is extremely rare. Usually when a darker skinned person has blonde/brown hair or blue/green eyes, they have some white ancestry. For biracial people, it's actually not that uncommon to look 'white' and have blonde hair and blue eyes, I've seen that many times. I even saw a little biracial boy with freckles and a red afro once on the train, lol.
A few of them look like they have Vitiligo (e.g. the top right woman and the bottom middle woman) since they have a few pigmented blotches in their face.
Yes, there are Africans and Asians who completely lack pigment due to some serious disorder like albinism or Vitiligo but fortunately this is not very common.
Black people with blonde hair is extremely rare. Usually when a darker skinned person has blonde/brown hair or blue/green eyes, they have some white ancestry. For biracial people, it's actually not that uncommon to look 'white' and have blonde hair and blue eyes, I've seen that many times. I even saw a little biracial boy with freckles and a red afro once on the train, lol.
Not that rare. And according to this article, the blond hair of Oceania evolved completely separately from Europeans blonds. It wasn't a blond traveler spreading their genes, just a natural variation.
However, it seems most of these folks lose their blond hair in adulthood. I just recently found out about these blond-haired, dark-skinned people and find them exceedingly interesting. I'll have to do some more googling and find out if the people who retain their blond hair are more coveted in their society than those who turn dark. It would be a really interesting comparison to the role caucasian blonds play in society.
It is quite unusual, I've never seen the yellow ring in combination with dark blue eyes. Usually it's with brighter blue eyes and the ring is more brownish, like this:
I still wish I had light blue, green or brown eyes though. Green eyes are amazing!
Your eyes are amazing Mine are green with "bubbles" of other colors. They aren't like emeralds but they are very green.
This could have been a standard of beauty many decades ago, it appears some presently want to hold on to this perception.
Blonde hair, blue eyes have become somewhat stale or bland , like a blank sheet of paper. I generally overlook those with blue eyes as many appear dark(er) without the sunlight. I would be a fool to state women with Blonde hair and Blues are unattractive however I prefer the total opposite.
Nothing like a sunkissed skin tone, have any of you come across fair skin legs....not aesthetically pleasing.
have any of you come across fair skin legs....not aesthetically pleasing.
I am very fair-skinned and I agree! I have very pale legs. But I care more about skin cancer than I do about having tanend legs I guess. And I can't justify the self-indulgent expense of getting my legs spray-tanned. So even if some people think blonde is "superior" many of us blondes has that balanced out by having pasty white skin!
Before WWII, blond, blue-eyed men were the tall dark and handsome males of the 60s (I believe the original Sam Spade from the Maltese Falcon was a blond). Adolf helped to change them into the villains of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Also it could have likely been based that at that time, people worked outside more, accenting dark and light complexions where lighter colored characteristics were not the norm (the offshoot today seems to be the dark haired blue-eyed person).
Not that rare. And according to this article, the blond hair of Oceania evolved completely separately from Europeans blonds. It wasn't a blond traveler spreading their genes, just a natural variation.
However, it seems most of these folks lose their blond hair in adulthood. I just recently found out about these blond-haired, dark-skinned people and find them exceedingly interesting. I'll have to do some more googling and find out if the people who retain their blond hair are more coveted in their society than those who turn dark. It would be a really interesting comparison to the role caucasian blonds play in society.
That Wiki article confirms what I said. It is extremely rare to find indigenous black people (i.e. without any white ancestry) with blonde hair or blue eyes, just like it's extremely rare to find Chinese people with blonde hair and blue eyes. This is hardly controversial I would think. There may be some Aboriginal children in specific parts of Australia that have blonde hair but this hardly disproves my general argument.
Black people with blonde hair is extremely rare. Usually when a darker skinned person has blonde/brown hair or blue/green eyes, they have some white ancestry. For biracial people, it's actually not that uncommon to look 'white' and have blonde hair and blue eyes, I've seen that many times. I even saw a little biracial boy with freckles and a red afro once on the train, lol.
We actually quite a few red heads a few generations back in my family. My sisters natural hair color is a reddish brown, but mine is super black.
But as a kid I had freckles. And I am at the dark edge of the spectrum. So you really just don't know how people will turn out!
That Wiki article confirms what I said. It is extremely rare to find indigenous black people (i.e. without any white ancestry) with blonde hair or blue eyes, just like it's extremely rare to find Chinese people with blonde hair and blue eyes. This is hardly controversial I would think. There may be some Aboriginal children in specific parts of Australia that have blonde hair but this hardly disproves my general argument.
Maybe I'm just objecting to your use of "extremely", since the wiki page says "Aboriginal Australians, especially in the west-central parts of the continent, have a high frequency of natural blond-to-brown hair,[37] with as many as 90–100% of children having blond hair in some areas." and the other article says of the South Pacific Solomon islands "Up to 10 per cent of the population is fair haired, the highest proportion outside of Europe". It also clearly states that these kids are not blond because of white ancestry, that their blond hair is caused by a different gene than the one that causes blond hair in caucasians.
We actually quite a few red heads a few generations back in my family. My sisters natural hair color is a reddish brown, but mine is super black.
But as a kid I had freckles. And I am at the dark edge of the spectrum. So you really just don't know how people will turn out!
That's because you probably have some white ancestry like most African-Americans (assuming you are AA).
It's true, you never know how people will turn out. It's possible that my children will have black curly hair like my father even though my hair used to be white-blonde and very straight. Or maybe the black curly hair will skip a few generations and then they'll wonder where it comes from
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Maybe I'm just objecting to your use of "extremely", since the wiki page says "Aboriginal Australians, especially in the west-central parts of the continent, have a high frequency of natural blond-to-brown hair,[37] with as many as 90–100% of children having blond hair in some areas." and the other article says of the South Pacific Solomon islands "Up to 10 per cent of the population is fair haired, the highest proportion outside of Europe". It also clearly states that these kids are not blond because of white ancestry, that their blond hair is caused by a different gene than the one that causes blond hair in caucasians.
I'm sorry, what was your general argument?
My point is that generally speaking, blonde hair and blue/green eyes are very rare for non-Caucasian people. Just because there's a tribe in a specific part of Australia that happens to be an exception doesn't disprove the overall point. Nobody said that all blondes are necessarily Caucasian, when I mentioned white ancestry I was referring to e.g. African Americans. As you say yourself, "Up to 10 per cent of the population is fair haired, the highest proportion outside of Europe". I'd say 10% is already quite rare but it's even less in the rest of the world. When over 90% of the population does not have blonde hair, yes blonde hair is extremely rare.
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