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> Jesus and Muhammad trailing Britney Spears by a factor of 4 or so is my favorite so far To play devil's advocate (edit: pun entirely not intended!), I'd bet
by saghm 4y ago
> Jesus and Muhammad trailing Britney Spears by a factor of 4 or so is my favorite so far
To play devil's advocate (edit: pun entirely not intended!), I'd bet that way more people today could correctly identify a photo of Britney Spears than an accurate rendition of either Jesus's or Muhammed's faces. Obviously this map isn't supposed to be most "recognizable" people, but I think there's something to be said about whether the person itself is different from the mythos around them (which may or may accurately describe their life).
- merlincorey 4y ago> an accurate rendition of... Muhammed's faces. Accurate depictions of Muhammed[0] are difficult to come by. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad
- saghm 4y agoAh, right, I actually had known about that before, but I must have forgotten! It would be interesting to see if there weren't as much controversy around depicting Muhammed whether the common versions today would be accurate; depicting Jesus isn't discouraged at all in Christianity, but centuries of Europeans depicting him looking like them have established a common trope of a white, fair-haired Jesus, which would not have been at all what he actually looked like given where and when he was from. Given that Islam has been much more continuously practiced in the region where Muhammed lived, I imagine that depictions of him probably wouldn't have been as egregiously inaccurate in terms of race, although it's possible other sorts of cultural expectations might have been adopted over the years.