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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb] And in any case, there's a far clearer delimination of lines amoungst Far Eastern races. Chinese people look far more different from Japanese people than Americans do from Germans. Apart from the weight, obviously. [/qb][/QUOTE]The Japanese pride themselves on being able to discern fine differences in quality between various consumer items, types of rice, and quality of cloth etc.. This discernment also extends to races and the belief that Japanese can infallibly tell by face alone who is "really Japanese" and who is a Chinese, Singaporean, or Korean "passing" as Japanese. The fact is, populations in all these countries have a great deal of overlap in appearance, due to ancient and more recent immigration as well as having all descended from the Chinese. So, while we can probably agree what a "typical"Japanese (or Chinese or Korean) face looks like, many native Japanese look like Koreans and Chinese (and vice versa). Furthermore, the standards of beauty or handsomeness in each country change considerably over the years such that a person considered ideally Japanese from the 1920s would now be considered to look somewhat Chinese. I find that clothing, walking style, haircuts, and gestures are more reliable means of picking out non-Japanese tourists than is facial appearance alone. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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