Indonesian Tribe With Piercing Blue Eyes

[Fiqh]

When you think of the native people of Southeast Asia, you know, the ones who actually call the region's lush rainforests home, it's rather difficult to imagine what would set them apart from the general urban population.

Aside from their way of life, customs, and traditions, there isn't much to physically distinguish them from regular folk.

But there's an Indonesian tribe on the island of Buton, whose people have one distinct feature that sets them apart – blue eyes.
Meet the Buton Tribe. After recent photos of the tribe, taken by geologist and photographer Korchnoi Pasaribu, went viral on social media, many have been wondering how it's even possible for this one group of people to have natural blue eyes, especially considering the fact that most Asians have brown eyes.

It turns out that the tribe developed these piercing blue eyes as a result of a rare genetic disorder called Waardenburg syndrome.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Waardenburg syndrome is a group of genetic conditions that can cause hearing loss, and changes in pigmentation of the hair, skin, and eyes.

But before you start thinking that every single person in the Buton tribe has blue eyes, think again. According to a Facebook post by Discover ASEAN, the Butonese people mostly have normal brown eyes, but a small sub-group have developed blue eyes.

Here are some more blue-eyed Butonese people for you to admire in awe.

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[Fiqh]

@andy9432 @shabby890

 

[hiwasuwor]

looks fake

 

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ts is AI JFL

 

[Fiqh]

looks fake

They have Waardenburg syndrome, a genetic condition (specifically autosomal dominant) which cause them to have hearing loss and blueish eye colour, which can be in one or both eyes.

ts is AI JFL

kys

 

[hiwasuwor]

They have Waardenburg syndrome, a genetic condition (specifically autosomal dominant) which cause them to have hearing loss and blueish eye colour, which can be in one or both eyes.

kys

Can they pass it onto their offspring?

 

[Makeyousit]

Looks like this one syndrome

Forgot the name


But looks exactly like it

 

[Fiqh]

Can they pass it onto their offspring?

yes

 

[KDD5]

We wuz Aryans

 

[hiwasuwor]

yes

a genetic mutation in indo europeans and thousand years later majority of europeans had blue eyes. Maybe in a thousand Years Asians will also be blue eyed.

 

[lilith]

that kid has heterochromia like me

 

[6ft6inches]

How big of a halo is blue eyes on ethnics

 

[Fiqh]

How big of a halo is blue eyes on ethnics

Quite a big halo.

 

[StuntmanMike]

a genetic mutation in indo europeans and thousand years later majority of europeans had blue eyes. Maybe in a thousand Years Asians will also be blue eyed.

Asians will never be blue eyed because they don't have genes for that.Blue eye is a trait of Hunter Gatherer males.Also European Hunter Gatherers had mostly blue and hazel eyes While Indo europeans had brown so blue eyes comes from European HGs to Modern Europeans.

 

[hiwasuwor]

Asians will never be blue eyed because they don't have genes for that.Blue eye is a trait of Hunter Gatherer males.Also European Hunter Gatherers had mostly blue and hazel eyes While Indo europeans had brown so blue eyes comes from European HGs to Modern Europeans.

it had to come from somewhere. One indoeuropean had blue eyes and then it spread which lead to europeans having the gene even if they have brown eyes. asians dont have blue eyed genes because they dont have any blue eyed ancestor.

 

[StuntmanMike]

it had to come from somewhere. One indoeuropean had blue eyes and then it spread which lead to europeans having the gene even if they have brown eyes. asians dont have blue eyed genes because they dont have any blue eyed ancestor.

WHG(Native European Hunter Gatherer) is the source of blue eyes
ANE+WHG=EHG
EHG+CHG=Yamnaya(Proto IE)

ANF+WHG=Globular Amphora(These people had mostly blue eyes and paleskin)

Yamnaya +Globular Amphora=Sintashta(Modern White).Sintashta males also raped iranian and indian females.That is why we sometimes see brown indo males with blue eyes

 

[Baban]

How big of a halo is blue eyes on ethnics

bigger than yt ppl

 

[sportsmogger]

Looks like shit

 

[Veganist]

they got stroma surgery