I wrote in an earlier entry how a lot of people think China/Korea/Japan are the same country. So recent Guest Blogger DJ sent along a link to a site to test if you can tell the difference between the three races or if they all look the same. I was pretty crap at it I'm afraid. My score was the same as the average - 7. I'm not sure what that says about me, but apart from couple of 'dead-cert' Japanese and Chinese faces, I was guessing as much from the clothing as anything else, and with that criteria these days they would all have passed as 'western'!
Posted by Joe at February 15, 2004 12:03 AMI only got 6 right. I guess living in Japan doesn't help.
Tom
Just to note that completely random guessing should yield a six. The average was seven; I got an eight. Does this tell us more about Asians or Occidentals, though?
Posted by: DJ at February 15, 2004 12:16 PMWhat fun! I got a 5, but it was only dumb luck that I didn't get a zero.
It's not so easy guessing a person's ethnicity in the US either. Until this weekend, I would have said that Tiger Woods was black, but he's not. He's Cablinasian, a term that he invented to expresses his white, black, Thai, Chinese, and American Indian heritage. A potent mix to be sure, but he's not alone. There were 10,672 other Americans who marked the same combination on the year 2000 US census.
I found this interesting tidbit, and a lot of other fascinating info about the dramatic changes taking place in US demographics, at http://www.prb.org/.
8 for me Joe. What an interesting test! Will pass it onto others.
Posted by: John at February 23, 2004 07:10 PM