I read a thread by mangeorge a while back there where he asked about the two different types of Englishmen, and asked a few questions about what types were prevalent in England.
But I find that there are defenitley features that are common among different people in different countried. Obviously racial features (however you want to define the word “race” which is pretty amorphous if you ask me) vary from place to place and in different places, people look different.
By the way, all the generalizations that follow are completely based on my casual observation, but I wanna know if anyone else here notices these things too.
But what I notice, are some simlarities. Lets look at the English, first. There is the Phil Collins type, as Mangeorge mentioned. I think of particular features that normally make me think that someone is English. Lets look at tony blair. He seems to have a typical set of English features. Look at his eyes. If you look at his upper eyelids, he has the thing where you can’t see the upper lids when his eyes are open looking straight ahead. This is a typical thing, I think with a lot of english folk. Look at Grahame Norton. He has this sort of look too with the arched eyebrows. They seem to have more round or squared off looking heads.
The Germans, on the other hand tend to have another set of features. Think Oliver Kahn . He’s defenitely my vote for the typical German look. He’s got the big brow and also deeply set eyes.
Its a little harder to distinguish between Germans and English, because I think they have similar features, but it seems that Germans have a more robust look to their faces. Gerhard Schroeder also has the arched eyebrows like Blair, but also has a more compact face. It seems like Germans tend to have smaller eyes.
If you look at the French, they have their own look too. It seems to me like they have a typical french nose, with somewhat larger eyes.
Typical Italians, to me, tend to have the eyes where you can see their eyelids when they are open, and have the larger nose, and obviously more curly hair, etc.
When I think of the US, we are pretty much racially integrated, but I think there are areas that are more homogeneous. If you look at the American South, I think that the white people there have had little recent influx of genes from foreign places.
What is cool to me is if you go to New Orleans, is that you see that the local people from New Orleans tend to have a sort of look that represents that huge mix of Spanish, French, Indian, and slave that makes it much more varied. Obviously there are plain old white-folk that probably had less diversity in their background.
So yeah, I think this is kind of a weird thread, but I’ve always noticed these differences. Maybe its because I have this predisposed notion of what people look like and only think about it when my ideas are confirmed. That is certainly true, but I think there is also something about these differences that make it special, and make the world a cooler place because of it. I guess what I’m trying to say that if you are going to make distinctions based on race, and race is just as subjective as the groups you are comparing, that you can certainly make distinctions based on any narrow group that you want, in this case, caucasian westerners.
What’s the point of all of this? I dunno, really. I just like being able to notice any kind of diversity that is out there.
