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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 19:31:05 GMT
Can you tell Japanese from Korean from Chinese or do they all look the same? Here is your chance to see if you can distinguish the nationalities. alllooksame.com/register.php?tid=1(requires a very short, non invasive registration) I did awful: 7 I really thought I would do much better.
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Post by onlymark on Oct 4, 2010 20:34:21 GMT
I got 7 as well. I think that is the default number.
Did you try the buildings one? I got 10 for that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 21:08:22 GMT
I got only 3. I can't tell Japanese from Korean.
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Post by ilbonit0 on Oct 4, 2010 21:13:44 GMT
I actually interviewed the inventor of that test in my previous life as a freelance magazine journalist! I came across it when I lived in Japan and did it with my language students when I lived in Tokyo - they all did woefully.... Its a little harder because the fashions are so dated - and that is the best clue to Japanese vs Korean vs Chinese rather than facial features. The pictures are from, like, the 80s...
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Post by frenchmystiquetour on Oct 4, 2010 22:18:45 GMT
Consistent with the rest of my life, I am below average. Another 3 here. Guess my career as a racial profiler just went down the tubes. Either that, or they all look the same. I'll finish the other exams later and then post my likely substandard results.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 5, 2010 1:39:02 GMT
4.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2010 1:52:52 GMT
You all!!!!
I should have done the worst -- far worse than the rest of you, since I have never lived where there is any concentration of people of Asian descent.
I got 10!
What was interesting was that the ones I got wrong were the ones about which I was most unsure.
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Post by rikita on Oct 9, 2011 18:11:41 GMT
4... i really just randomly guessed... i wasn't sure about any of them (well maybe with a few i thought this or that was more likely)... but then, i only ever had to do with very few japanese, korean or chinese people in my life... when i see tourists i sometimes wonder where they are from, but i am never able to guess...
i kind of think i wouldn't do that much better though if it was say, germans, czechs and polish people or something like that...
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Post by nycgirl on Oct 20, 2011 1:13:13 GMT
I got 8. I should have done a lot better, seeing as how I have aunts, uncles, and cousins who are Chinese and Japanese.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 20, 2011 6:27:16 GMT
I got 8 as well just now. My colleagues, who go on and on about being able to distinguish by looks alone, got 7 or worse and were surprised!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2013 18:41:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 14:50:50 GMT
I remember in Vietnam taking the bus down from Hanoi to Da Nang, we stopped at a major rest stop and restaurant for all of the tourist buses, the woman in charge of our group asked me "Can you help me with the group? They all look the same to me." And just about exactly the same thing happened at a tourist stop around the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand.
Meanhwile, regarding that ridiculous Google app, I suppose that Westerners could find offensive all of those ultra round eyes they use in Japanese animation.
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Post by nutraxfornerves on Jan 11, 2013 15:37:12 GMT
How to tell the Japs (sic) from the ChineseThis was published in Life Magazine shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack. It's interesting to note the word choices for the descriptions--negative connotations for the "Japs" and more positive for the Chinese.. Chinese have parchment yellow complexions and are tall & slender; Japanese are earthy yellow and short & squat. When I traveled in China in the early 1980s, you had to go on a tour and you had to have a Chinese guide in addition to the one provided by the tour company. One one trip, we had a very gringo-looking tour company guide, who spoke Chinese. The American guide told me that the Chinese guide had confided that "You Americans all look alike. All pink and spotted."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2013 15:51:52 GMT
I remember reading back in the eighties that visitors to China were disconcerted because they were constantly being asked, "How old are you?" Apparently this was because the Chinese were trying to get some kind of handle on how non-Chinese were supposed to look.
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