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It’s just to your untrained eyes that they look “more similar”. No, all Asians do not look alike. Also, contrary to popular belief, they do age. And blacks do “

It’s just to your untrained eyes that they look “more similar”. No, all Asians do not look alike. Also, contrary to popular belief, they do age. And blacks do “crack”. They just have different patterns of progressions, and your brain is not trained to notice the nuances.

stormfather 3y ago
Go to Korea and look around on the subway. There is objectively less phenotypical variety there.
- LeoNatan25 3y ago
  That's a silly argument. Go to Norway (or elsewhere in Scandinavia)—there is "objectively less phenotypical variety there" too; would you extrapolate that all caucasians look alike?
xwdv 3y ago
I am almost certain Asians (not Indians etc) look more alike than other races. Sure, there may be differences that let you identify an individual, but at a distance of say 20 feet, can you resolve those differences and identify who you’re looking at? Clothes and hair styles might help, but if not available can you simply identify a face? You’d need a close look and a lot of practice. What about if they wear a mask? When an Asian wears a mask, they could almost be anybody. Asians are even more androgynous than other races too so it’s possible to not even know if they are male or female without further context, typically hair and body shape. I’m not even sure what a “typical” white or black person looks like, but the typical Asian always seems to be straight black hair and certain shapes of eyes and light skin tone. Am I crazy or is this accurate?
- LeoNatan25 3y ago
  There is great variety in "Asian" look. A Vietnamese does not look like a Japanese, who does not look anything like a Filipino, who in turn, does not look like an Eskimo. They are all "Asians"—they have the typical "Asian" features—but look very differently, just as a Scandinavian looks "similar" to a Bulgarian, but distinct enough.
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    I don't think Japanese look homogeneous personally.

stormfather 3y ago

Go to Korea and look around on the subway. There is objectively less phenotypical variety there.

LeoNatan25 3y ago
That's a silly argument. Go to Norway (or elsewhere in Scandinavia)—there is "objectively less phenotypical variety there" too; would you extrapolate that all caucasians look alike?

xwdv 3y ago

I am almost certain Asians (not Indians etc) look more alike than other races. Sure, there may be differences that let you identify an individual, but at a distance of say 20 feet, can you resolve those differences and identify who you’re looking at? Clothes and hair styles might help, but if not available can you simply identify a face? You’d need a close look and a lot of practice. What about if they wear a mask? When an Asian wears a mask, they could almost be anybody. Asians are even more androgynous than other races too so it’s possible to not even know if they are male or female without further context, typically hair and body shape. I’m not even sure what a “typical” white or black person looks like, but the typical Asian always seems to be straight black hair and certain shapes of eyes and light skin tone. Am I crazy or is this accurate?

LeoNatan25 3y ago
There is great variety in "Asian" look. A Vietnamese does not look like a Japanese, who does not look anything like a Filipino, who in turn, does not look like an Eskimo. They are all "Asians"—they have the typical "Asian" features—but look very differently, just as a Scandinavian looks "similar" to a Bulgarian, but distinct enough.
- Gibbon1 3y ago
  I don't think Japanese look homogeneous personally.