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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
In YOUR opinion...as "someone of color". See thread title.
My $0.02 as the white person here...I tend to identify caucasians by hair color. I think other whites do as well. Example: When I started dying my hair red, people in my church started mistaking me for another redhead in our church. Even people who had known us for years couldn't tell us apart from behind, and she's got a good 4 inches on me.
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I see your point but almost anyone could make that mistake even with the height difference, but what does that say when confronted by a group of 2 or more individuals being viewed from the front?
This is the same kind of thing that is considered with criminal cases that comes to a question of getting a reliable witness description of a suspect.
Racist tendancies aside, when people go to describe a suspect of color, one who is Asian or hispanic, how accurate is their description if they don't know the difference of features that sets us apart?