Re: OT: Mood-reflective eye-colour (WAS: Re: The Melting)

On May/28/2003, Tony Hogard wrote:

> > Is it just me or do most people on this list have
> > green eyes? Maybe it's a conlanger trait? :)
> Plain blue here.  My wife's are green (outer ring) and hazel
        Plain brown here. In fact, it's the standard here in Spain. The
"typical spanish eyes" are, in fact, deep dark brown, almost black, as
my sister's. But that's only because the assumption of "spanish people"
for many foreigners is that we are all from the south (Andalucia,
specially, which was inhabited by moors for several centuries). You
know: "toreadores", sun, flamenco, and all that touristical stuff. Here
in north Spain we're a bit more of celtic and visigothic stock, so blue
and green eyes are not that uncommon (my mother's, for example); but
brown eyes and brown, wavy or curled hair is quite the standard anyway.

        And it's a pity, because I've always liked blue-eyed girls and
they're hard to find here :-) I'd move to Sweden or Germany only because
of that, but heck, I like to have 12+ sunny hours in summer ;-)

--
        Roberto Suarez Soto

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