EPTMost of those persons are completely mixed but its just stupid to classify a guy from Palestine with a clear arabian apperance as white and the brunette with blue eyes as black.
Whoever made this test should get another hobby/job.
Play the ethnicity guessing game and fail horribly - Page 5
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
Most of those persons are completely mixed but its just stupid to classify a guy from Palestine with a clear arabian apperance as white and the brunette with blue eyes as black. Whoever made this test should get another hobby/job. | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
One of the people I put in Black is supposed to be white, but then her info says she's mixed white and N. African. So... I wasn't wrong. It was the US Census that defaults her to white. I put the Filipino/Irish guy in white. Well... that was his Irish half I was putting him into, seeing as he was far more Euro than he was Asian. Kind of ridiculous that he's classified as Asian considering Filipinos are already Spanish/Negroid/Mongoloid mix, then further injection of Euro with the Irish heritage. His genetics aren't anywhere close to Asian dominant. The English/E. Indian girl I put in white. Obv, that's her English half I'm seeing. Yet, she goes in Asian? LOL The only two that I totally missed were the two black girls who have "some" euro ancestry. It sounds more to me like they have a ton of white ancestors in their background, they just weren't legitimate marriages so they call themselves African despite heavy euro genetics. | ||
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matjlav
Germany2435 Posts
On May 02 2011 11:48 Armathai wrote: Yea I got 15 right as well, but again only because I assumed they were going for something tricky. Way too low resolution for a proper test, however I like the idea, hammers a point across. The idea that we even have these tests and include these statistics in national surveys etc. is terrible though Well the fact is that most people do fall clearly within a White/Black/Latino/Native American/Asian category, enough so that it is still useful for statistical purposes. | ||
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rickybobby
United States405 Posts
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
No matter what some random "face test" or geneticist tries to convince me, I'm not quite ready to throw away my common sense just yet. The reason scientists have been unable to determine distinct races based upon individual genes is because races are not determined by individual genes. Anyone who looks at race as more of a statistical probability finds much more evidence that confirms what we've already long believed. But this is the course science often takes. We deny something based on faulty data, political correctness, and cultural sensitivity, and it's only a matter of time before it is all proven wrong. I remember back when the psychologists and sociologists tried to convince us that male and female brains are identical, and society makes up all the difference. Yeah, I loled at that one too.  | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
On May 02 2011 09:51 nennx wrote: DAMN~!Edit: Oh, you can click on them to see them bigger :D OP needs to edit his OP That said, I still got stuff wrong even when looking at the bigger pictures. I can understand there being contension, because there are different concentrations of certain race per person, and when it comes to american indian (stupid term) and latino, how do you distinguish between them? they are both natives of America(s), some are just more northern than others. What's stupid is how there's no Indian or middle-eastern category, which is probably what that black/latino (what most of you would have categorized him as instead of the white which he is classified as) guy was. It's also crazy/incomprehensible-to-me how that dude with the really short curly hair is considered latino and not black. I guess this is due to him maybe being ~50% latino origin. There were some other pretty incredible things too, more-so tricks in my opinion. | ||
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slicknav
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
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DrBoo
Canada1177 Posts
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
Self-identification seems like a stupid system in general. | ||
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
On May 02 2011 09:59 aimaimaim wrote: lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating!  Not gonna say it isn't fair, but it did throw me off. I know a bit about how facial features (Not simply color, eyes, hair, etc.) can tell you a person's ethnicity, and I only got like 8 right. A couple of people really threw me off. P.S. The Native American/Asian thing is what I mean when I say that I got confused. They're very similar, so with mix-raced people being up against eachother, it's very difficult to distinguish. I couldn't (I only got like 1 Native American correct). | ||
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vectorix108
United States4633 Posts
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RieuK
United Kingdom55 Posts
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PervOx
Sweden10 Posts
On May 02 2011 12:05 StorkHwaiting wrote: Native Americans are descended from Mongoloids. Spanish/Negroid/Mongoloid My English might be lacking, but isn't it supposed to be "Mongolian"? Or are you saying that most Asians have a chromosome to many? | ||
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Holcan
Canada2593 Posts
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Holcan
Canada2593 Posts
On May 03 2011 07:43 PervOx wrote: My English might be lacking, but isn't it supposed to be "Mongolian"? Or are you saying that most Asians have a chromosome to many? mongoloid, caucasian, negroid, etc, they are terms to describe racial attributes that develop among certain areas. | ||
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Impervious
Canada4199 Posts
I wasn't looking at skin tone, I was looking at facial structure and facial features instead. Some were pretty easy to figure out. I did have to guess a few though. | ||
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So no fek
United States3001 Posts
Got 3/4 on Asian, 2/4 on Hispanic/Latino and 1/4 on everything else. | ||
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Ryalnos
United States1946 Posts
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Thrill
2599 Posts
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