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Play the ethnicity guessing game and fail horribly

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Nothingtosay United States875 Posts May 02 2011 00:49 GMT #1 http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_01-sort.htm This game has you sort people into ethnic groups based upon their picture. I admit that the pictures are most likely intentionally small but for the most part it should help demonstrate to you how "race" is social construct that varies between cultures and individuals. EDIT: lol you can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

nennx United States310 Posts May 02 2011 00:51 GMT #2 I think it just shows you how hard it is to tell people apart from really far away. Terrible test. Edit: Oh, you can click on them to see them bigger :D

Chesner Iceland817 Posts May 02 2011 00:51 GMT #3 Pretty lame to have the pictures this small :/

MutatedMiracle Canada80 Posts May 02 2011 00:53 GMT #4 Guys it says click on the photo to enlarge it right there in the instructions. <_<

iamho United States3347 Posts May 02 2011 00:54 GMT #5 There's no way four of these people are black..

ShadowDrgn United States2497 Posts May 02 2011 00:56 GMT #6 Got 5 right, no better than random guessing. Pretty hard when the pictures are tiny and most of them are intentionally misleading.

sc4k United Kingdom5454 Posts May 02 2011 00:57 GMT #7 Haha, well, I don't know. It seems they picked some of the most 'in between' and deliberately confusing faces they could find. I remember walking down the street in Atlanta and I could very easily tell who was black, mexican or white lol.

micronesia United States24676 Posts May 02 2011 00:59 GMT #8 On May 02 2011 09:54 iamho wrote: There's no way four of these people are black.. Why? Black doesn't mean they look like they are 500th generation central Africa... Tiger Woods is half Asian.

aimaimaim Philippines2167 Posts May 02 2011 00:59 GMT #9 lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating!

Rtran10 Canada78 Posts May 02 2011 01:01 GMT #10 its hard because they are all mixed. Got 7 out of the total.

Nothingtosay United States875 Posts May 02 2011 01:02 GMT #11 The problem with a hispanic latino category is the fact that all the other "races" there fit into. Latinos are conglomerate of european native american and african descendents. Also seeing as native americans are the closest group to asians genetically some of them look very similar. Still I think most of the people on TL would call some filipino people mexican if they saw them walking down the street.

Whiplash United States2928 Posts May 02 2011 01:04 GMT #12 That was actually pretty cool, I like the point they wanted to get across with the little minigame.

Indrium United States2236 Posts May 02 2011 01:05 GMT #13 The whole thing is just using intentionally ambiguous-looking people to make a point about ethnicity. I feel like I'm missing the point somehow.

Dystisis Norway713 Posts May 02 2011 01:05 GMT #14 On May 02 2011 09:59 aimaimaim wrote: lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating! Pretty much everyone have "racial mixing" though. The point is that the concept of "pure races" is extremely unhelpful; humans are a single race.

Irave United States9965 Posts May 02 2011 01:07 GMT #15 Managed to get 9 out of 20 correct, this is just setup to have you fail

ampson United States2355 Posts May 02 2011 01:10 GMT #16 I got 7 right, but most of them are mixed races. It's really difficult.

Steel Japan2283 Posts May 02 2011 01:10 GMT #17 I got black people right... Rest I just couldn't see well =/ bad test

EZjijy United States1039 Posts May 02 2011 01:10 GMT #18 Pictures are way to small and the people they chose have very ambiguous looks.

Angra United States2652 Posts May 02 2011 01:11 GMT #19 It's kind of a silly test. There were so many of them where I was like "well this guy/girl looks mixed but I guess I have to pick a category" then at the end it's like "LOL YOU GOT IT WRONG HE WAS MIXED!" -_-

prOxi.Beater Denmark626 Posts May 02 2011 01:12 GMT #20 I couldn't for the life of me find more than one black person. Turns out the one guy I was sure was black actually wasn't and two of the left-over people I had randomly put in the black box were actually black. Only guessed one right person in each category, except for black. Nice way to get a point across

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