To think dark brown eyes aren’t common in white British people

[Runaway3444]

Ds1 has dark brown eyes and due to his skin tone people just assume he’s white British rather than having a Middle Eastern father. My other children have a darker skin tone so people believe them. Aibu to think most people with dark brown eyes are usually from minority ethics background.

My family is white British going back as many generations as I know of, and I'm the only member of the family without brown eyes.

Are you upset that people assume your pale skinned DC doesn't have ethnic heritage or that they assume the darker skinned DC do? Are they being strange or weird or challenging about it? My best friend's father is black and yet she is porcelain pale with light brown hair and blue eyes, noone would assume she was mixed race but they don't argue with her about it?

The 'British Rose' look is based on pale skin, brown hair and brown eyes". YABU

Mine are dark brown but ds are blue, which surprised me. They are beautiful though, like a clean winter sky.

I think brown is the most common eye colour, brown being the dominant gene.

In order to have blue eyes, you need two blue genes but only one for brown. Two blue-eyed parents can only have blue-eyed children. If one parent has brown and the other has blue, the children could be either brown or blue-eyed, but are more likely to have brown.

Blue eyes are caused by a recessive gene! Brown eyes are dominant.

I have dark brown eyes and I’m white british, though people have said I look Italian, so must be descended from a conquering Roman 🤣

My older two have dark brown eyes like their father. I have blue eyes. One is pale like him and one has my darker (but white) skin tone.
Their father is Irish/British and has done the ancestry DNA test thing - not much else in the mix!

I don't know the statistics, but most people of white British origin have brown eyes. Blue, green, hazel or grey are all minority.

I should add that two brown-eyed parents can also have a blue-eyed child.

My eyes are essentially black and my ethnicity is Irish/Swedish!

YABU, the Cornish (most of my family) all have dark brown eyes and often dark hair. Children’s fathers family also all very dark and no known overseas links.

YABU to judge us on our eye colour.

My sister has lovely dark brown eyes. Mine are a boring greyish blue colour. We are both white British.

Now blue eyes with black hair, I find is rare

My DH and one of my friends (both Irish) both have this combination - I agree it’s very rare though. Apparently it’s mostly seen in N Europe

How dark is dark? I think mid-brown eyes are very common among White British people, but actually dark brown are much less common.

@SometimesRavenSometimesParrot

My eyes are essentially black and my ethnicity is Irish/Swedish!

That’s what my DP is too, and his eyes are near black (our two children both have bright blue eyes, mine are green).

I'm green eyed, DH is blue eyed and our son has brown eyes and light blonde hair.

My dad has brown eyes too. His brother does too, seem quite common. We're all white, really pale too.

@thebakeoffwasntasgoodthisyear

Now blue eyes with black hair, I find is rare

My DH and one of my friends (both Irish) both have this combination - I agree it’s very rare though. Apparently it’s mostly seen in N Europe

Is it really? My father, uncle and aunt all have that combination.

Until I googled a second ago I thought brown was the most common eye colour in the UK

I'm as white as an aspirin with very dark brown eyes. I did my 23 and me and ancestry dna and I'm so boringly British. They can even narrow it down to the south east. I was hoping for some interesting connection to somewhere far flung but nope. The most interesting bit was 1% Sweden

I've done my family tree back to the 1770's too and it's all Kent/London/Hampshire

Anyway my point is it really can't be that rare surely if someone made almost entirely of the DNA of other English folk is my colouring

"people shouldn’t judge ethnicity solely by a persons skin tone."

the word 'judge' is doing some mystery heavy lifting in that sentence. Did OP mean "decide" ,"suspect" or "condemn with previous prejudices"?

If one parent has brown and the other has blue, the children could be either brown or blue-eyed, but are more likely to have brown.

I know parents like this, they have two fair haired blue eyed children and one dark haired dark brown eyed child.

I don't think eye colour can really give much indication of heritage. On my mum's side of the family everyone has light blue eyes apart from me and my cousin who have green eyes. They also have dark hair. On my dad's side everyone has hazel/ brown eyes. My husbands eyes are so dark they looked black and as a child his hair was white blonde! At work an Indian maintenance man was convinced I was Indian because of my eyes! I thought it was strange because surely green eyes would quite rare in India? I do look foreign though apparently there's Hungarian gypsy heritage on my dad's side?!
Basically I don't think I would assume anyone's heritage from their appearance .

people shouldn’t judge ethnicity solely by a persons skin tone

You ^want^ people to judge others based on their eye colour???

YABU
I don't know about white skinned, what % of white skinned people have blue eyes.
but 80% population has brown eyes. 10% blue. So that's small.

Brown eyes are more common than blue or gray.