# Do you think North Africans look similar to any of these European populations? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-north-africans-look-similar-to-any-of-these-european-populations/625603 "2012-06-19T02:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-north-africans-look-similar-to-any-of-these-european-populations/625603/21 "2014-08-20T14:21:07Z")
The answer is… it varies. I can usually tell ethnicity fairly well, but I’ve been wrong many, many times. I can’t always tell an Ecuadorian or Peruvian from, say, a Filippino or a Vietnamese. I can’t always tell an Iranian or a Pakistani from a Mexican. I can’t always tell an Arab from a Puerto Rican or a Hungarian. Even within “North Africa,” there are a LOT of different looks. Did Omar Sharif look anything like his fellow Egyptian Anwar Sadat? ---
**Author:** ![the\_apples\_fell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@the\_apples\_fell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_apples_fell)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-north-africans-look-similar-to-any-of-these-european-populations/625603/22 "2014-08-20T16:27:37Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Even within “North Africa,” there are a LOT of different looks. Did Omar Sharif look anything like his fellow Egyptian Anwar Sadat? This is true. There are some looks that are common throughout North Africa and I mainly refer to those. I actually have mixed up Puerto Ricans and Egyptians or seem some resemblance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-north-africans-look-similar-to-any-of-these-european-populations/625603.md?page=1)