Not that good, 9 out of 16.
Wow, I got 43%, which I find shockingly high. I find guessing race to be WAY too hard for me, I usually wait for people to self-identify. I would never have guessed part Australian aborigine in my co-worker, she looks like a generic variety white person. Plus people seem to get offended if you guess wrong.
The one I recall was the Sorting People module of the really comprehensive PBS series Race - The Power of an Illusion.
I hope not. How can they make people guess Latino, white & North American? Or North American vs. Asian, when there are very closely related groups living just across the Bering Straight from each other?
That’s a pop culture quiz more than a race quiz. I’m surprised they didn’t add Keanu Reeves in there.
Meh,
I’m a bit disappointed. I got 37 percent, because I was always guessing for the mixed race. I’d like to see a test and guess which country they were from. Everybody knows that race is just a construct and these examples are meant as a way to prove it. I was hoping for something slightly more interesting.
I notice how everybody in that list is considered mixed.
And damn Linda Carter was (and to some degree still is) hot.
A triple negative? I’m too tired to work this one out.
I got half right, but I got bored about halfway through and checked “e” for everything.
Easily the dumbest “test” I’ve seen in a while. Appears to have been put together by a nitwit trying to teach a lesson that it’s hard to tell “races” apart.
We just can’t seem to decide as a society if we want to identify genetic populations and give them special dispensations–affirmative action, e.g.–or recognize the family of man as a family and judge people by the content of their character.
What most of us term “race” applies to specific phenotypical characteristics, and I rather suspect in a test of folks drawn up at random, the results would be a little more consistent, unless the test makes the same ridiculous confusion here among categories for country of origin, genetic population, and ethnicity.
If the point of this exercise is to show that it’s difficult to tell who is from a particular ethnicity or race, then woe to the individuals who want to argue for special treatment based on ethnicity and race.
If it’s true we can’t really distinguish race most of the time, then it follows that no group is disadvantaged on the basis of society’s reaction to their race/ethnic background alone–the “test” just showed you can’t tell the difference.
The ethnic/race-conscious crowd cannot have it both ways. You can’t teach sensitivity and the need for diversity in the first class, the case for affirmative action in the second, and the fact that most people can’t tell the difference without being told in the third.
Give up already (I’m not preaching to any posters here, but to creators of thes “helpful” tests…) on focusing on race, ethnicity and/or background, would ya?
Q.E.D.. Perhaps you forgot you were in General Questions. Not appropriate in here.
samclem GQ moderator
Oh.
Races.
I wasn’t thinking in those terms, I was think of “who crosses the finish line first” type of races.
Sorry.
I got an abysmal score on All Look Same.
It’s annoying, because when I’m in East Asia, I can pretty much pinpoint someone’s nationality with very high accuracy. Note that these are gross generalities and only trends, but they usually pay off. Japanese tend to have more acquiline noses and quite pale skin and a pronounced “almond” eyelid that swoops to the edges, and curved legs due to sitting on the floor all the time. Koreans have round, flatter faces. Northern Chinese are usually tall and have quite defined features; southern Chinese are often quite short and have wide noses, wide faces and slightly darker skin.
Now I’m wondering if I guess a lot based on style and demeanour too.
12% because I don’t even look to see where people are from so I have no idea where they are from.
I got two right.
I wish I’d known about that site when I was being made fun of for not always being able to tell who’s black and who’s white.
One of my favorite rappers. Most famous for being dissed by Tupac. Had a guest appearance on Reno: 911! Indentifies as Puerto Rican. Ethnically diverse to the point that it’s not really fair to include him on a test like this.
I got 10/16, but I knew Zack del La Rocha beforehand, otherwise I might have gotten it wrong.
I don’t think the test is so stupid. I find it really difficult to tell native american aspects, but otherwise I think the “races” have discernable features.
This is true. But otoh, it might not be that much, and the test cannot take that into consideration.
She’s an octohottie!
Sasha Baron-Cohen - he of Borat - when playing “Ali G”, who’s meant to be an English South Asian “nigga” wannabe (are you with me so far?), famously asked, when prevented from doing something, “is it coz I is black?” to his victims/interviewees, and not one of them picked up on the fact he is actually a white English Jew.
I’m too lazy and tired to click on the link, so I’m guessing I will get 42% right tomorrow.
Oh, and G.E.D, I didn’t forget about your prize. Jussoyouno!