Oct 21
The Mysterious East
People are always saying that Orientals all look alike. This is true. They all look sort of . . . Oriental.
However, I find that there are significant differences between nationalities. Chinese generally have broad, flat faces. Japanese faces are narrower, more sharply-featured. Koreans are somewhere in-between.
To confirm my thesis, I took this test, which shows 18 pictures of people and asks you to class them as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
I got four right. I might have to fine-tune my thesis a bit.
2 Comments so far
I wouldn’t feel badly about a low score. I saw that test some time ago and I don’t think they picked very “typical” faces. My wife is Japanese and did no better than I did – 4.
I got 8 by sheer luck. Some of them looked verrry Amerasian.