I am a very very pale Chinese who born in Hong Kong.  As I look at my baby pictures, my eye are dark brown and my hair is borwn with some blond/copper one popping throught.... Teacher used to ask me that if i got my hair dyed O_O.   As grew up, I found ou that my eyes are going lighter to light borwn/hazel!!!!!  When I was in Hong Kong people thought i wear colour contacts!!!! What on Earth is going on?\np.s. im only 16.5 years old.
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"Chinese" is not a genetic distinction, it's a geographical one.  The people in China are a mixture of countless smaller groups and tribes of people, with the expected large number of recessive genes.  Hair and eye color does change over time, as different genes are expressed differentially based on age-related regulation of transcription factors.  You are just at one end of a typical bell-shaped curve for these specific traits.
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My dad has brown eyes and he has classical Jewish features (black hair, hooked nose, etc.), but he is dark skinned. He must have had a Negroid ancestor. His twin sister, on the other hand, is blonde haired, blue eyed, and white as chalk. (Do you think grandma [white] slept with a Caucasian & negroid person at the same time? grandpa was mixed, though he was Jewish) It is our only explanation why one twin should be "white" and the other "black". Does this help?
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Darker color is dominant and lighter color is recessive as far as genetics are concerned.  More commonly, children turns out halfway between parents color.  In that sense, it is somewhat unusual that your children are completely white.\n\nBut...  I'm surprised that people near you are acting as this is such a surprising thing to happen.  It happens often enough....  One thing is for sure... if you are a mixed couple, the only thing you can do is get used to unusual and sometimes insulting comments from people.  Everybody has their own problems and prejudices.  If  you start getting upset over every comment, you'll be a wreck....\n\nI notice unusual facial expression (confused?) on people every now and then myself....
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I don't know but mine do the same thing. Mine are dark green most of the time with a brown ring around my iris. Sometimes a little more brown comes out(more hazel). I find that it depends alot on what color I wear or what kind of a mood I'm in. Strange really.
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No, not at all, a lot of people have lighter patches on their skin. My sister even has it in her hair, she's got dark brown hair within the middle a blond patch. It's called pigment-vlek in dutch, but I don't know in English.\n\nDo not take pills, as some people recommend you, it's totally normal!!!!
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nothing to worry about. there can be reasons like heredity, but not really due to stress and all that other bs. your hair loses the pigment and turns lighter. mine is turning really white and started when i was about your age!  i love color. highlighting masks it better.
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Green is an ambiguous color in eye genetics. There is a very good chance your child would have light colored eyes, but brown hair is dominant over red hair. Plus, it looks as if your boyfriend was lucky with his red hair color, seeing as black hair is dominant. His father must have been heterozygous otherwise that would never have occured.\n\nYou are also heterozygous, since your mother had blond hair. There is an approximate 25% chance that your child will inherit your boyfriend's red hair.
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I'm not really sure, but from what I understand it to could be some chemical changes in the body based on your feeling and what horomones your brain is releasing. My teacher told me that some teenagers have eyes that change color because of hormonal changes, and when they become adults, their eyes will probably remain one certain color. \n\nIf you are interested in eye genetics here is a link:\nwww.anthro.com/evo/inherit.html\n\nMy eyes are completely brown and my favorite eyes are blue.
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f***in right its good to be exotic. Im half korean and half white myself so I look different from the rest. Stand out and be proud.. theres nothing to be ashamed of. \n\n-Miff
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Melanin pigment found in human skin, iris, hair comes in many shades: \n\nyellow-gold-green-brown-dark brown-almost black is from weakest to strongest shades\n\nThus humans have HUGE variation in their skin shades, the eye colors and their hair colors (even without the use of artificial hair dyes, contact lenses or tanning tonics-tanning booths)\n\nThe darker races you mention USUALLY have the heaviest distribution of the darker shades of melanin than others, but once there is mixing of these gene pools with lighter skinned humans, all sorts of things can happen, including the various shades of green eyes and lighter skin.  Some scientists believe that skin shade is transmitted by polygenetic genetics, so numerous genes are involved. Most texts still explain eye color as simple complete dominance genetics, but I believe we are not to the bottom of this issue yet and that it is much more complex than this...i.e. that there are more factors involved than one gene. The hair color thing is at the very LEAST dihybrid genetics, esp when you start adding the red to the melanin.  Red pigment is different than the melanin and when mixed with all the different shades of melanin can give a whole slough of different color combinations in hair.  It is possible to find many people of those darker melanin "races" to have lighter eyes, hair or skin, but it is just rarer due to the gene pools.  As the percent of interracial mixing increases and the number of caucasians continues to decrease all over the planet, the percent of humans with the darker melanin will increase and the lighter blondes, blue-green eyes will decrease.  It is happening fast as we look at the spots on the earth where the population is exploding the most.....all the darker  pigmented humans \n\nRacism in humans has been around since the dawn of time.  All ethnic groups have their "time" on the earth when they are more or less accepted or more or less rejected and subjected to prejudice than during other eras.  Law of Karma keeps dishing out the "same ole, same ole"......same with prejudice against a cultural group......cultures come to the TOP and cultures drop to the bottom....just like businesses......there is a nature cyle in life....all things will have their hayday and all things will have their time of demise. Look at history.  Not much new really happens in history.  Fashion and hairstyles may change, but the human games and stories don't really change much! Duality-polarities of life exist as a part of natural law and is how karma operates! You know...."the dark and light sides of the force." Ignorance breeds ignorance, hate breeds hate, love breeds love, tolerance breeds tolerance, compassion breeds compassion. You're either ready, willing or able to be tolerant or you aren't! Tough lessons for many on this planet still even though human history is filled with horrific records (potential lessons! You'd think we could learn and make some progress!) of the human atrocities lower consciousness humans inflict upon other humans. Some have to learn thru pain, though.  Some can learn from watching the pain and suffering of others. Some love to inflict pain no matter what, are just more animal like in their "struggle for survival" in a "dog eat dog" world. It is amazing to me that even with all the genocide in human history on various sides of the earth that we humans would get a clue! "Father, forgiove them, for they know not what they do!"
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Hey girl. Ok, first let me say this. I am light skinned and have been called high yellow. And while you are being made fun of for being dark skinned (which I think is beautiful) I was and still do get made fun of for being light skinned.\nI am a lot older than you (add 13 years to your age) and I have a friend who I have been friends with since I was about 7. Do you know that this chick still makes remarks about light skinned people and my color.\nShe has told me on occassions that the only reason guys are into me is because I am light skinned with long hair and that guys are still hung up on that look. How do you think that makes me feel? No one can choose what color/race they are and if you weren't dark skinned, you would be getting made fun of for something else. \nSo as hard as it is, don't even worry about it cuz if people are making fun of you, then they aren't good enough to be your friends anyways. You can't stop it. Just try your best to ignore it and be the best YOU that you can be. Don't try to be someone you are not and don't let them see that it bothers you.\nKeep your beautiful head up.
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Science has shown that we look different based on where we live. Do you no get enough sun light you have pale skin. More sun the darker your skin based on how much vitamin D you need. If you have more sun your eyes would he darker to. Less sun light the lighter your eyes so that you would let more light in for better sight. Also the eyes would form differently based on light. and wind. If the area was bright and or windy then the eyes would not open that much and there fore they are what we now call slanted. \n\nThese are just a  few of our differences and why.
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This happens to me too, I have a brown eyed parent and a blue eyed parent. (My siblings all have dark brown eyes, though.)  Mine change from green to brown and have many shades in them, I think they are an orange color.  On my drivers license it says brown since inside they are brown. \n\n(Maybe you are falling in love..)
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I know it's a cultural thing, but you'd better embrace your dark skin, there's so many people who try to get your color.  I suppose that if you remain in cooler climates your skin will lighten up on its own.  Mine does without me trying.
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Sorry for the somewhat inappropriate answers you got. Well, what can we do? this world is ful of diverse mindsets you know.\n\nFirst of all, congratulations for getting your question featured on the Yahoo! Homepage. Keep on asking good questions!\n\nNow, to answer your question, some peoples' eye colors change without any apparent reason. As you might be knowing that traits like color of skin, eye (iris) color depend on your genes i.e. these are genetic traits, certain changes in genes might directly affect these outer morphological (=phenotypic) traits. The changes are so slight that they often go unnoticed. Apparently yours got noticed.\n\nBut, if your eyes are suddenly "loosing colors" i.e. are undergoing depigmentation, that "might" be a case of concern. Here is a link where you might get your question answered- http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971205.html
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It may be possible some time to change the genetic make-up of someone. However, i think it would be easier to do this for eye colour. In its simplest for, Blue or Brown eyes are determined by which alleles are transfered from parents to child. There are two types of alleles: dominant and recessive. Dominant always trumps recessive. Brown eyes are dominant. So if one parent gives one Brown allele, the child will definantly have brwon eyes. For someone to have blue eyes, the Blue allele would have to be given by both parents.\nIt may in the future be possible to select alleles from parents. In this case, it may be possibel to determine eye coulour.\nHowever, it is more complicated to change hair colour. But with modern scinece, complicated doesn't mean anything, so i think in future, one will be able to select their child's hair and eye colour.
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I am a natural redhead, my Grandmother on my Fathers side was a redhead, my Grandfather and uncle on my Mom's side were also redheads.  I am the only redhead left in the family and the only one born on both sides of the family since my Uncle Bobby.  I, like you, didn't like being a redhead when I was a kid, but once I hit puberty, it was all fun.  The guys liked it, I was easily spotted in a crowd, everyone knew who I was and am, I made friends easily, and I grew to like my star status.  I even grew to like the freckles too, my Granny always said each freckle was a kiss from God and I always said "why did He have to kiss me so much Granny?".  But now, you couldn't have any of them.  They set me apart from everyone else and I know a few facts about redheads.  Only 1 in 100 children born are natural redheads.  Redheads tend not to get gray, but they can go lighter and lighter and blond up or go white, but usually not gray.  Redheads tend to be very bright, inquisitive and easily amused.  Rarely lacking for friends or social engagements.  Is that cause we are lucky?  Or because you can't miss us?  We may be tormented as children, but as adults we get along just fine.  The talk of redheads being meaner, more viscious, is well, just plain talk from what I have seen, so whatever!  Hope you get a basketfull of redheads and enjoys every minute of them!  Good luck!