Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger īut, O, what damned minutes tells he o’er The meat it feeds on that cuckold lives in bliss It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock While in Othello, the “green-eyed monster” alludes to the cat-like nature of jealousy in how it toys with our emotions. I feel too much thy blessing: make it less, In measure rein thy joy scant this excess. In The Merchant of Venice the green is suggestive of illness…Īs doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,Īnd shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love, Shakespeare coined the phrase “green-eyed” to convey jealousy. But your eye colour has no affect on your personality. People with green eyes are thought to share character traits. Two-thirds of the inhabitants today have green eyes and blonde hair. There is a village in north western China called Liqian, whose people are thought to be descended from Roman General Marcus Crassus’ mysteriously missing army. Green eyes can take between 6 months and 3 years to appear in children.

Because of this, green eyes do not appear immediately in babies…Īll babies are born with blue or brown eyes. This same scattering of light occurs in the sky which makes it appear blue. This helps determine eye colour as different light waves are captured in your eye pigment. Rayleigh Scattering is the dispersion of light as it bounces off of air molecules. The darkness of the iris depends on its concentration of melanin. In humans, the pigmentation of an iris ranges from very light amber yellow to a very dark brown, bordering on black. Green eyes are a curious blend of light brown pigmentation, a yellowish lipochrome pigment, and a splash of Rayleigh scattering. Green is actually not a pigmentation of the iris at all. This is because green eyes are heavily influenced by your environment… This means that no matter what colour eyes your parents have, yours can be pretty much any colour.Īll races, including Caucasian, African, Asian, Pacific Islanders, Arabic, Hispanic and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas can have green eyes. There have been 16 genes identified that contribute to eye colour. In Ireland and Scotland, 86% of people have either blue or green eyes. The largest concentration of green eyed people is in Ireland, Scotland and Northern Europe.

But in their rarity, there are lots of interesting green eye facts. Only 2% of people globally have green eyes. Green eye colour is the rarest in the world.

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