Can you distinquish other nationality's?

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I have this Chinese female friend who grew up here (not china) and she went to china for a few months.
The people there could all see she wasn't a Chinese Chinese (does that make sense :P) However, I woulnd be able to tell u the difference.

Now in europe, u can distinquish spanish people, italian people, scandinavians and balkan people just by looks. But whenever i see a coloured person (be it turkish/syrian/iraki/marrocan, vietnamese/chinese/japanese/etc/etc, Nigerian/central african/zambian, u get the point) i can not distinquish them. Since i can distinquish coccasion, im curious whether it's just because i don't no how to distinquish the other people, or if it's somehow colour related.

So, as a black person, can you see the difference between different african nationality's?
As a asian person, can you see the difference between different asian nationality's?
As an Arab person, can u see the diferrence between different arab nationality's?

[Catta]

Where the fuck in Europe can you distinguish people by looks? The only significant difference is the one between north and south. Plenty of foreigners at my dorm and I have no chance at telling where they are from until i hear them speak.

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Where the fuck in Europe can you distinguish people by looks? The only significant difference is the one between north and south. Plenty of foreigners at my dorm and I have no chance at telling where they are from until i hear them speak.

Well, it's hard to describe :P I think the hardest to keep apart are: Belgian, French, Dutch, German (although their men are often very metro, so u can distinquish it by that), danish. (but there's also alot of migration troughout the ages so theres a bit of that to complicate it aswell)

Spanish people are slightly coloured, although it's not a brownish tan (compared to the portugeze) but rather a bêge one. Black hair, they kinda look like italians. But italians have a different nose, different eyes, etc.

Balkan people are known to have a square jawline and a pretty big physique, etc etc. It's the small things.

[Evil Inside]

I can spot Balkan people from a mile away, being from the Balkans myself they just stand out in a crowd.

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I love listening to people talk in different languages and working out where they are from, i'm quite good at it too I believe.

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Where the fuck in Europe can you distinguish people by looks? The only significant difference is the one between north and south. Plenty of foreigners at my dorm and I have no chance at telling where they are from until i hear them speak.

You do once you start building an eye for it

[Thirteen]

Balkan people are known to have a square jawline and a pretty big physique, etc etc. It's the small things.

Being from the balkans with a not-so square jawline and small physique, I now feel like a chameleon.

[Dezerte]

Not really, no.

[Evil Inside]

Being from the balkans with a not-so square jawline and small physique, I now feel like a chameleon.

Right there with you my friend hahaha.

[Themius]

Where the fuck in Europe can you distinguish people by looks? The only significant difference is the one between north and south. Plenty of foreigners at my dorm and I have no chance at telling where they are from until i hear them speak.

It's not that difficult.

Any way I can see the differences between whites Asians and blacks idk why you have this broken down into only people being able to answer about their own color.

[Catta]

You do once you start building an eye for it

Yea - i dont think so...

Tell me how you distinguish a Hungarian from a Latvian from a Russian.

[Stir]

Nationalities are tied to cultures. Composure and posture are often very culturally specific. Add to that that the facial muscles are used in a way to accommodate the native language, and you've got a lot of different little features, unique to each nation.
Race really doesn't have anything to do with it.

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Nationalities are tied to cultures. Composure and posture are often very culturally specific. Add to that that the facial muscles are used in a way to accommodate the native language, and you've got a lot of different little features, unique to each nation.
Race really doesn't have anything to do with it.

No, but the question is basicly, can a japanese pick another japanese out of a crowd full of chinese?
Can a nigerian pick a kenian out of a crowd?

[Catta]

Nationalities are tied to cultures. Composure and posture are often very culturally specific. Add to that that the facial muscles are used in a way to accommodate the native language, and you've got a lot of different little features, unique to each nation.
Race really doesn't have anything to do with it.

So you are a saying not only should a japanese be able to pick out a japanese in a crowd of chinese - but that he should be able to pick out a japanese who grew up in china out of a crowd of japanese...

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Yea - i dont think so...

Tell me how you distinguish a Hungarian from a Latvian from a Russian.

Hard to explain, but living in a multiethnic city and being in contact with many nationalities daily helps. That's all.

[Catta]

Hard to explain, but living in a multiethnic city and being in contact with many nationalities daily helps. That's all.

So do I. And I live with foreigners as well - that doesnt mean i can tell where they are from. When new people move in i can barely tell who is and isnt native.

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So do I. And I live with foreigners as well - that doesnt mean i can tell where they are from. When new people move in i can barely tell who is and isnt native.

Eeeeh ok then I can't recognise nationalities

[Stir]

So you are a saying not only should a japanese be able to pick out a japanese in a crowd of chinese - but that he should be able to pick out a japanese who grew up in china out of a crowd of japanese...

I can generally pick out Flemish and Germans if I try. Likewise, there are a lot of different cultures and dialect groups in the Netherlands, and it is generally pretty easy to pick out people from different regions on looks alone.

[Nikkosyia]

Oddly, I'm not sure how, I can tell the difference between asian peoples. South eastern, chinese, taiwanese, vietnamese, japanese, korean, mongolian, etc...

On the other hand, Black and Middle Eastern, I can't.

Finding an Indian is fairly easy to pick out in a group, they're unique and different from middle eastern and asian.

And with EU vs EastEU, I'm not sure.

... So, at this time and moment, I will indeed say loosely that all middle eastern, black and white people look the same. =P

[Deleted]

Yeah, no. You might be able to distinguish the major archetypes. But telling the nationality of a random stranger just by looks?
Let's do an experiment, shall we. Look at the following pictures and tell me their nationality — there's a French, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Dane, and a Brit.