Why do alot of Italians have black hair?

Question

is it because they are related to other ethnic groups?

Answer 1

All my cousins in Italy are blonde and blue eyed.  Yet all my cousins here are black (or brown) haired.  Go figure.  I think because northern Italy borders with the Swiss (who are mostly blonde/blue eyed) and there's more change of their marrying and crossing over is why.  Oddly the more south you go the darker haired and skinned people get.  I don't even understand the southernmost Italians when they speak.

My daughter turned out blonde/blue eyed and one of my son has black hair and the other light brown.  So there you go...we have covered the gammut.

Answer 2

Fact: almost everyone in the entire world has black hair; a very tiny percentage have

blond(e) /redhair. Mostly these are Nordlanders (people living in the North Lands, i.e., Sweden, et al). Another small minority have brown hair (interbreeding of blackhairs with

blond(e)/redhairs).

So, Italians are just part of the majority: blacks, browns, reds, and yellows ALL have nothing but black hair (unless through interbreeding); the majority of whites have black hair.

See the National Geographics Genotype Program, which traces human migration patterns.

Answer 3

It could be from the infiltration of the Moors (from northern Africa) across Europe.  

"During the second Punic war [The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC between Carthage and Rome], two Moorish Numidian kings took different sides, Syphax with Carthage, Masinissa with the Romans, decisively so at Zama. Thereafter, the Moors entered into treaties with Rome. Under King Jugurtha collateral violence against merchants brought war. Juba, a later king, was a friend of Rome. Eventually, the region was incorporated into the Roman Empire as the provinces of Mauretania Caesariensis and Mauretania Tingitana; the area around Carthage already being the province of Africa."

Answer 4

It's a region thing. I'm myself a third generation of itliana, and I have blond hair and blues eyes. If your in the northern region of Italy then your more then likely to be dark headed, and that is because of Spain.