I disagree, Jadg. That may be so for a character who is under a year old... but bear in mind the faction.
I think older characters SHOULD have events to fill their lives on occasion. Granted, many will simply have lived their lives like everyone else - but are there not people who HAVE led very interesting and/or eventful lives?
As for skintone... caucasian tells me so little. ^_^ European, yeah. There's so many different distinctive skintones within Europe. Slavic peoples, for example, have a tendency towards a slight sallow yellow hint to their skin, while British, Spanish, French, Portugese, are often among the most pale.
I'll stop now before I go into the same rant I gave Wes a week ago... -_-