Can European Caucasians (whites who aren't Middle Eastern or Latino) have black hair?

Question

Can European Caucasians (whites who aren't Middle Eastern or Latino) have black hair?

Answer 1

Where are you from that you need to ask this?

Yes Europeans can have all hair colors ranging form albino to jet black.

UV exposure can bleach some dark haired Europeans' hair to lighter shades which is why you get some people having darker hair when they're adults and spend more time indoors and likewise some people with naturally two toned hair thats dark at the roots but blonde on top.

In my family on both sides we have had every hair color, dark red, orangey red, blonde-brown, blonde, sepiabrown, and  jet black.

Answer 2

Many Irish have fair skin and black hair.

Answer 3

I accept that your classification is not biologically viable as has already pointed out but the question is still interesting as it relates to distinct heritages.

Yes they can and it probably was the original colour but then with the strong sexual selection that is thought to have occured on the European plateau when the male population was greatly decreased due to the risk associated with hunting the only food source - large herbivores - over long distances, hair and eye colour variants in women would have increased.

Answer 4

Sky flying gorgon witch...

HE WAS MAKING A JOKE! You obviously haven't heard of sarcasm...

Answer 5

No, they have very dark hair that is close to black.  That is, unless they have some mix with the others like in Spain and Italy.

I do want to point out that the person who brought up the scientific basis argument is both right and wrong.  We are actually more alike than we are different.  However, our bodies adapt to our environments.  We form certain common features over thousand+ years when staying in one place. This is all that race is really.  Race is a grouping of individuals based on these common features that developed.  They can and do intermix because they are very cosmetic in nature.  (Anyone who reconstructs facial images based on skulls will tell you that there are distinct differences here.  It is how they can tell what color the skin would have been and thickness and texture of hair and muscle tone.)  

You may already know this, but I wanted to point it out because it applies to your question.  There are darker haired individuals in the British Isles because of the Roman occupation.  Italy had more intermixing with groups that have darker hair (Monguls and other groups as well as arabic and African groups).  It is not so common to find the really dark hair in other places of Northern Europe, and certainly not Black hair.  Black hair seems to come from Mongoloid groups and African groups.  

However, this is before we really started to travel and move around like we do today.  Eventually, it will be more difficult to discern such differences in people---especially in America.

Answer 6

YES! WHITE PEOPLE DO HAVE BLACK HAIR.

TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO JUST ANSWERED THIS QUESTION, NO YOU DON'T HAVE TO CUT OR SHAVE AND PERMANENTLY REMOVE BLACK HAIR!

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BLACK HAIR!

NOT EVERYONE HAS BLOND, RED, OR BROWN HAIR.

LIGHT HAIR ISN'T THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE TYPE OF HAIR EITHER!

Answer 7

Yes. But you should realize there is not really any scientific basis for the Caucasian race as a separate group of people from other races. For one thing, the variation within such a group is greater than the differences between this group and other groups. For another, there is quite a gradation in genotype and phenotype (DNA and how people look) between your typical Swede and your typical Persian, Australian Aborigine, African, Pacific Islander, etc.

There is even less of a scientific basis for a discrete population that could be called European Caucasians who are not Middle Eastern or Latino.

Answer 8

Yes, they can. It is quite common in 'celtic' areas,as mentioned. My own grandmother had black hair and was Irish. Thisprobably comesfrom one of two/three aboriginal peoples who settled in Ireland prior to 4000BC, one large group from the near east, a smaller group originally from around Italy and a very large group from the Basque region of Spain.

There is no such thing as a 'Latino' in Europe, except as a language designation. Spanish & Italians are caucasian, whilst latino in the US is what they call Mexicans etc of mixed Spanish/native ancestry.

   actually dna testings has shown there is NOT a huge difference between most european populations dna-wise. The amount of 'African' dna in the native populations of Italy and Spain is less than 2percent and even less in the British Isles/Ireland.

   The guy who said dark hair came from the Romans in Britain made me laugh! The Romans who came there weren't neccessarily Italian-you were considered a Roman if you were part of the Empire,which stretched across most of the known world! You could be any race at all and still be Roman. On top of it the Romans didn't come with family groups to settle, they sent garrisons to  conquer and reap the rewards for the might of Rome. obviously the men would have had some 'lady friends' along the way,some may have even married local women, but this would be a 'drop in the ocean' genetically. When we speak of the Romano British, we are talking about people of british ancestry under Roman rule, not immigrant italians!

Answer 9

YEAH

Answer 10

No, they are forbidden.  Anyone with black hair is ordered to color it or shave it.

Answer 11

They may have dark hair, but only Asians  have truly black hair.

Answer 12

Yes. Black hair is common among Europeans. My mums family are Welsh and the all have black hair, it's quite common among the Celts.