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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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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I do too, at least at first. That said, I think I do identify by differences in skin tone as well.
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I identify caucasians by hair color and eye color.
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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
It's funny, I have a hard time telling just about anybody apart for the first few times I meet them. I am terrible with faces no matter what the race and it usually takes a couple interactions before I can pick you out of a crowd. On the other hand, I can remember people's first and last names much easier than any of my friends. I will say that I am better at remembering and differentiating faces of my own race than I am with other races, but I'm pretty hopeless either way.
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If I run into someone in a different setting than where I usually see them, I often don't recognize them at first. I'm really really horrible with names. It's embarrassing. Sometimes I introduce myself to someone who I've already met. It's awful.
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
So the nonwhite GCers have shared stories.
Do the GC white folks want to share a "we all look alike" story in which they were confused for another white person? Perhaps a white person who they look like and/or a white person who they look NOTHING alike.
This is white folks' opportunity to be the "what do whites (your people) think about this" representatives.  That's a rarity. |
My sister-daughter and I were mistaken for each other all the time, even by our sorority sisters. We hung out together a lot and lived together, we had similar body types and hair color but my hair was long, hers was short, she has green eyes, I have brown. I have a big Italian nose, she has the tiniest nose of anybody I've ever seen. I don't think we look that much alike, just body type and hair color but that was obviously enough for people to confuse us.
There are pics of us somewhere here, probably in the retro thread.
I have two co-workers, young, female epidemiolgists who started the same week. They both have long dark hair but one has very dark brown eyes and is really stunning. The other has hazel eyes and is, well, not stunning at all. Some people didn't even realize they were two different people. When they were sitting next to each other at a meeting one day, three different people said to them "There are two of you?"
And, the oddest one.. there is another epidemiologist who seems to change her hair color every other week. Sometimes she wears glasses, sometimes contacts. Sometimes she wears her hair up, sometimes down. Each of those changes makes her look TOTALLY different. I don't recognize her sometimes and she's been in our department for 4 or 5 years now. It is really bizarre how completely different she can make herself look.
ETA: Found the pic with my sister-daughter that people confused me with. Wow, we did have the same hair length at one time. You can't tell in the picture that her eyes are super green either.
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...39#post1756939 We look more alike that I thought.
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