Can you tell the difference?

This is a fun website: www.alllooksame.com Take the test to see if you can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. I got 7 of 18 correct which is the average.

[jinks]

The links works now :faroah: I got 3 ?????? too many girls !!!

That was hard and I thought I could tell!

Inversely Amazing Not easy to get all that wrong. was my rating, 3, below average.

I got 10, but for several I thought, "Chinese, trying to look Japanese". One that was doing that, I got wrong.

This test is ridiculous.

Here in Thailand, I can find you Thais who look like stereotypical Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese. And in Japan, I can find you people who look like stereotypical Thais. Human physical characteristics are wonderfully diverse, even in populations that are relatively homogeneous.

Remember Josef Mengele trying to come up with a set of Aryan physical traits? It just doesn't work.

[Bob]

I got 4 right and was labelled "totally hopeless."

[elephantspike]

I got 10 right. It says my report card is "normal" :tard: and that I am "OK". :geek:

[Smiles]

I got 2 correct. A disaster!
I'm going back to live in Surrey.

Cheers ...

I was watching ABC Asia (or whatever the Ozzie channel is) and they stated that 'race' is a myth and doesn't exist except in people's minds. They went on to say that genetically we are closer to each other than some animals and insects are to each other. For instance, one fruit fly sat on a piece of fruit next to another fruit fly may well be genetically more different to each other than humans are to chimps.

The world and it's population have travelled since modern man first appeared (150,000 years ago approx') and we are all one great mix of genes, so no wonder we cannot tell Japanese from korean, Scot from Pole, Russian from American.

Scot from Pole

whit nonsense - the poles all live in Dalkeith!

Here in Thailand, I can find you Thais who look like stereotypical Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese. And in Japan, I can find you people who look like stereotypical Thais

Hardly, surprising given that the Thais are probably the most inter-married people in Asia. Then there was that "facilitation" in the early 1940s.

Getting back to the test, I think that city-types were over represented.

As to comparison with fruit flys. Of course they are more genetically more diverse. Their lifecycle is shorter than that of humans by a factor of thousands! That's why the are species of choice for longitudinal studies.