i did horrible. pics are too small and people seem to be racially mixed. seems to force errors.

still i guess there is a somewhat of a point. in the future, race may be harder to distinguish exactly.
for example i've heard from a friend that there's not really any Japanese-Americans in the sense that of Japanese in America. Most of those Japanese-Americans have married with Americans so their kids are racially mixed.

btw here is another quiz, to guess whether the person is korean, japanese or chinese. the pics are larger so the quiz should be better.
http://alllooksame.com/

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after taking the alllooksame quiz, i have to say a lot of race has to definitely to do with culture. sometimes i cant tell what kind of asian someone is at 1st glance but once they say something or do something, i can usually tell, or at least have a better guess. btw im asian

Kaoriyu

Canada276 Posts

May 02 2011 01:16 GMT

#23

I got 15/20.

I swear to god all of them are mixed seeing how I have many mixed friends.

Altar

United States577 Posts

May 02 2011 01:16 GMT

#24

Small horrible quality pictures, of course I can't sort them.

trias_e

United States520 Posts

May 02 2011 01:19 GMT

#25

Pretty hilarious test. Talk about reaching as far as possible to get the result you want.

boon2537

United States905 Posts

May 02 2011 01:22 GMT

#26

What's the point of this test? To show us that today racial mixture is common, making it hard to guess a person's racial background ?

TheGreatWhiteHope_

United States335 Posts

May 02 2011 01:23 GMT

#27

I know what this test is trying to prove, too bad it is methodologically flawed.

Kenderson

Canada280 Posts

May 02 2011 01:23 GMT

#28

13/20. They should all be mugshots and not random pics.

staplestf2

United States147 Posts

May 02 2011 01:24 GMT

#29

most of them are intentionally misleading.
this is more of a trick than a test

KimJongChill

United States6429 Posts

May 02 2011 01:25 GMT

#30

wow the pictures are so small, this is such a bad test.

zappa372

Chile365 Posts

May 02 2011 01:28 GMT

#31

There's no point on having a "race" anymore, they got all messed up.

ixi.genocide

United States981 Posts

May 02 2011 01:28 GMT

#32

The german/black lady that identifies as black when she is pale is interesting....

While I don't really agree with categorizing people based off of what they look like, self identification is something I could see a 1st grade teacher do to avoid conflict >.>

I got 2/4 native, 2/4 hispanic, 3/4 black (would have never guessed the white girl was black....) 3/4 asian and 3/4 White (the irish/asian guy got me).

Skilledblob

Germany3392 Posts

May 02 2011 01:29 GMT

#33

so they ask about specific race but in the end all of the people that belonged into that category are at best half of that race.

When I walk through Berlin you bet I can tell who is no European

Yergidy

United States2107 Posts

May 02 2011 01:29 GMT

#34

On May 02 2011 10:11 Angra wrote:
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!" -_-

Ya they set you up to fail. It was a pretty dumb test.

Varpulis

United States2517 Posts

May 02 2011 01:31 GMT

#35

My teacher had my class do this and fill out a worksheet about racial perceptions or something like that. They picked people who looked ambiguous or used other factors like lighting to trick you into misplacing people, and then say "ooh look how wrong and prejudiced you are." Another section of the website has statistics that are almost certainly biased. It's not a very good test or website, imo.

matjlav

Germany2435 Posts

May 02 2011 01:33 GMT

#36

Pretty much this. It's like a multiple choice test where none of the choices are actually right...

I suppose they're criticizing the current US government's system, but I can't help but feel that this "test" is attempting to aim criticism at the test taker.

intoyourrainbOW

United States168 Posts

May 02 2011 01:34 GMT

#37

don't mean to derail, but there's a better test specifically looking at asian races.

http://alllooksame.com/

Have fun.

nemY

United States3119 Posts

May 02 2011 01:35 GMT

#38

I didn't get a single Hispanic/Latino right

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That white girl is not predominately black

XothermeK

United Arab Emirates245 Posts

May 02 2011 01:35 GMT

#39

the title is misleading, a more appropriate title would be "Play the MIXED ETHNICITY game"

reincremate

China2213 Posts

May 02 2011 01:36 GMT

#40

It's generally harder to tell what race/ethnicity a mixed person is. But we all already know that we shouldn't make assumptions about people (i.e. prejudice) which is the obvious message of this poorly designed test.