If there was a mailman involved, he looked an awful lot like my father.
That would be true if eye color were controlled by one gene (ie, two alleles) that could be represented B=brown and b=blue with B dominant. Then, simple high school genetics would produce the result you describe. Eye color is more complicated than that, being controlled by more than one gene, but it certainly is possible for your theoretical child to have blue eyes.
Also, the OP needs to be more specific about “Asian”. I assume be means East Asian, as noted by Johanna.
It’s possible for an “Asian” person to have blue eyes with an arbitrarily small amount of non-Asian ancestry. Let’s say that one of the fellows in Marco Polo’s retinue had a gene for blue eyes. He found a few willing lasses in China, and begat a few children, some of whom carried the blue-eyed gene. Even though these children have a blue-eyed gene, they will all have brown eyes, since their mothers are (presumably) full-blooded Chinese, without any blue-eyed genes, and the dominant brown eyes mask the recessive blue eyes.
Well, these children have children, and then grandchildren, and so on. At any given generation, a few of them will have the blue-eyed gene, but almost all of them will have one full-blooded Chinese parent, so almost all of these descendants will still have brown eyes.
Now, we come to the present, some 30 generations later, and let’s suppose that a few of these descendants are still around. Each one of them has a single Italian ancestor 30 generations back, and all of their other ancestors are pure Chinese. We’ve stipulated that these folks all still have that blue-eyed gene kicking around in their cells, but it hasn’t done anything for lo, these many years, since almost all of the genes in the local gene pool available to match with are dominant over them. But now suppose that two descendants of this long, long line meet, and have a child. That child will be less than one part in a billion Italian, by ancestry, with all the rest Chinese. But there’s a 1 in 4 chance that that child will have blue eyes.
Unlikely? Yes. But then, there’s an awful lot of people in the world, and of course, one needn’t go nearly that far back to otherwise appear “pure” Chinese.
Chronos: Are you sure eye colour is dominant like that? I think it is co-dominant (I can’t remember the real word for this) since most mixed-race people I know are a combination of their parents instead of simply having the same pigmentation as the darker parent. For instance, none of the 3 Chinese/English people (no, I don’t know why this seems to be such a popular combination) I know have black hair, but a dark brown. And since the hair colour and eye colour genes are closely related I don’t think any kid with blue eyes would have just that and nothing else.
Another anecdote,
I have two friends who are Chinese/Irish siblings. She ended up with muddy hazel eyes, he got the traditional dark brown. She ended up with long straight dark brown hair, he ended up with curly black hair.
Go genetics 
Read the wiki link I gave in post #20, in particular the “genetics” section. It’s not clear that all the genes have been found yet.
The Hmong people of Loas were believed to be originally Blond haired with Blue eyes. Either by being of a mutated albino gene or an actual link to caucasians. I have a cousin who is blond/brown eyes and his daughter has blond hair/blue eyes. I’ve also heard anecdotal stories from my mother about how it was more common in the old country than it is here in the states.
http://www.thaitourism.com/articles/05_05_1.asp
PDF’s.
http://www.ikap-mmsea.com/document%20new/Hmong%20Statement.pdf
http://hmongstudies.com/LeeCulturalIdentHSJv1n1.pdf
You sure Kid2 is yours? :dubious:
The earliest annals of ancient China that mention the original Turks from Siberia record that the Turks had red hair and blue eyes.
I once knew a history professor from Kyrgyzstan. His skin color was light yellow. His hair was red, and his Mongolian-featured eyes were blue or green. The Kyrgyz people had originated as one of the Turkic peoples of southern Siberia, as in the ancient Chinese annals. My Kyrgyz historian friend looked like a throwback to his earliest known ancestors. Southern Siberia being a taiga forest zone, it would not be surprising if its indigenous people had light complexions like in Europe, although not looking European, because the skulls are still Asian.
What I posted is an oversimplification; I apologize, that I should have made that more clear. Qualitatively, though, the effect is the same, though it’s probably a bit more difficult to end up with blue genes at all loci.
I think of him as Primary Color Man.
I couldn’t say. But they’re bright blue in the movie posters.
So, um, if your mum has auburn hair and blue eyes, and your dad has light brown hair and green eyes, and your two sisters are blonde-ish with blue eyes, and they all have very Scottish colouring (pale, freckly, very ruddy cheeks when drunk/angry), and you have dark hair, dark brown eyes, olive-y skin, and certain bust-hip-waist proportions that many think of as more common in hispanic women, AND your mail carrier was a very nice blonde lady…
what does that mean?
You look like a great-grandparent? My mother had her great-grandmother’s coloring (very fair skin, blue eyes, red hair) unlike either of her medium skinned, brown haired parents - though her father had blue eyes too. Red hair and fair skin won out again in my brother and I too, despite our dad also being medium skinned and having dark brown hair. It supports the fairly recent theory that the gene for red hair is in fact codominent rather than recessive, too.
china bambina was born with blue eyes that changed to a dark hazel after about a month. twins were bornbwith darker eyes that are still on the hazel side of brown.
mom is chinese, i’m mongrel caucasian with blue-ish hazel eyes and brown hair.
Just keep trying. I’m sure you can get one eventually where the blue eyes will hold. Don’t lose faith!!
I met a girl in my first year here who had red hair and greyish eyes. She also happened to be really pretty, aside from the exotic coloring. (Hmm, she should be legal by now. . .
)I asked her teacher whether the hair color was real and was told that, yes, it was real, both her parents and grandparents are full-blooded Japanese, and that unusual coloring like hers pops up every once in a while.
I’ve never been able to find much more information on it, but the speculation seems to be that it’s due to a combination of Ainu and Mongol genes from way, way back coming together in interesting ways. I don’t think any Caucasian blood is necessary, it’s just due to very infrequently expressed genetic material already present in the population.
Now that you mentioned it. My neighbor’s are Hmong born and raised in Laos, moved to the U.S. They’re youngest daughter was born with the albino genes. She has brown/blondish hair, pale skin and extremely light brown eyes.
Or it could be that the mail man is blonde and blue eyed! 