There are even believed to be some people who are not of Irish descent who have used this term to refer to themselves in order to conceal their true ancestry.

Can someone have black hair and blue eyes. Generally however contrary to the opinion of many people having blue eyes is not the exclusive preserve of Asians or Europeans. As it goes through the stroma the presence of proteins causes blue light to scatter which makes the eye look blue. First one can have blue eyes as a result of a genetic mutation.

That means knowing your ancestry can. Generally darker colors are dominant over lighter colors. In English various types of black hair are sometimes described as soft-black raven black or.

For example if you have one blue-eyed allele and one brown-eyed allele you will have brown eyes. Dark brown hair and blue eyes isnt rare. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is more dense than other hair colors.

In some places at times immigrants from Ireland have been called this term often in a derogatory manner. Traits like straight black hair occur most often in Indigenous American and East Asian people 4. Black Africans can also have blue eyes and there are many.

Brown hair black hair brown eyes are examples of dominant genes while red hair blonde blue and green eyes are recessive traits. Traits like blonde hair and blue eyes occur most often in European countries -- especially Northern Europe 23. That is because the brown-eyed allele is dominant over the blue-eyed allele.

Not only are Europeans far more likely to have blue eyes 95 per cent in some Scandinavian countries they also have a far greater range of skin tones and hair colour than any other ethnic. I havent seen a lot of people with truly black hair and blue eyes my kryptonite. I do know red hair and blue eyes is the rarest combination though because theyre both recessive genes.