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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
I have done this too but with white folks that have similar features (slender long nose and thin lips for example), not when one person has a slender long nose and the other has a wide bigger nose and thin lips vs. full lips. That's because I REALLY LOOK at people to distinguish between them.
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Yeah well most people aren't that observant and that lack of observation does not operate the same for every group of people.
But what's really important is that this topic isn't so much about distinguishing Chinese vs. Japanese (that was a great martial arts movie) because that requires a general knowledge of the physical differences between ethnicities and cultures that the average person across societies does not have. DUH. Instead, it's about being able to distinguish diasporas of people and knowing that THIS Chinese person is not the same person as THAT Chinese person (or THAT Japanese person if people want to go inter-ethnically).