- Am asian myself, got 6/18 too.
CJK people actually do look very similar anyway, which is not surprising as there are a lot of shared genetics.
The way people tell them apart is going to be mostly based on current popular fashion, which is quite difficult to do with these bust shots and what I'm guessing are older pictures
by throwaway2037
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- Twenty five years ago, I lived in San Francisco. This website was "talk of the town" for a quick minute. The real trick is looking at people's hair styles. In my experience, fashion indicates one's ethnicity/nationality much more than face shape alone. Think about a blond Italian from northern Italy, vs a blond German from southern Germany. They will have wildly different fashion styles (clothes and hair). The same for a Londoner and a Parisian.
by unsupp0rted
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- The thing is the asians are dressed / made up in a confusing way. Koreans don't on the street don't typically look like that, whereas say a Japanese person might.
It would be a better test if it were from the collarbone-up, no clothes or makeup.
by jeromechoo
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- 15/18 on food. Been to and eaten at all three countries. It was mostly instinct TBH. I’m not sure I can point out exactly what characteristics make a particular picture of food Korean/Chinese/Japanese.
That said I really love food. I cook all 3 types often and go out to eat all 3 types (and even regional variants) quite frequently.
by ericdykstra
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- I got 12/18 on faces as an American-born Caucasian living in Japan for over 10 years. Since the subjects were photographed in New York City (and from the other comments, at least a decade ago), cues from fashion and makeup only helped me get about 4 of them, another 6 had pretty strong ethnic features. Of the remaining 8, it was a bit of a tossup and I did worse than guessing, getting only 2 correct.
13/18 on food. Even with a lot of the same general types of food, the presentation and specific ingredients made a lot of them somewhat simple. I got tripped up on a few, though, where I overthought it ("a Japanese X is usually not like this") or ones where it was really a tossup for me between Chinese and Korean since I'm less familiar with those foods.
by michaelteter
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- 11/18 :)
What’s really wild to me is having spent time in both Mexico and Thailand, I have seen some people in Mexico that could have a twin in Thailand. That was really unexpected.
by thenthenthen
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- 13/18 Moon Lee’s pics. This is too easy.
by decafninja
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- As some other posters have said, it’s the “accessories” that often give you a clue. Clothes, makeup, hairstyle, etc.
Also, Asians in their native countries are more distinctive vs. say, fully “Americanized” Asian Americans who I feel are a separate category that is more homogenous with each other than their country or ethnicity.
Another point I’ve observed more recently is that Korea and some parts of the Sinosphere are converging in aesthetics. Japan still seems to be doing its own thing. Though culturally I’d say Japan and Korea nonetheless share the most similarities.
- It's too slow. It takes at least five seconds to load the next picture after you answer. You should probably just preload all the pictures client-side. I wasn't able to get through it.
by throwawayk7h
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- I got 6/18 for the faces ("Obviously, very bad.") I thought I would get at least 50%. Interestingly, of the ones I felt very sure about, I did much better (got about 4 out of those 6).
by HoldOnAMinute
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- Is this still around? I think this site was from 20 years ago.
Domain created 2001-07-18
- I'm Asian, grew up in Vietnam, got 8/18. Without the specific hair styles, I can see all of them being Vietnamese
by gsf_emergency_6
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- From older version of the site:
https://archive.ph/http://alllooksame.com/
https://archive.ph/CeR00
>this is what happens generally when you fight against anything out of anger. It’s not that you have no justification for fighting; the real problem is that your efforts only make the situation worse, not just for others, but for yourself also.
Problem is that it's hard to recognise that something is worth our moral efforts without feeling angry at the same time. Stoicism is constant work.
by marginalia_nu
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- 10/18 for modern art. Pretty hard quiz.
- I got a bit more than average correct, but they all looked like New Yorkers from the early 2000s to me if I'm honest. Maybe it's because I'm watching Castle right now, or it is indeed because fashion and stylistic choices tell a lot more about when and where someone is from.
by LouisSayers
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- 13/18 Maybe growing up in NZ and hanging out a bit with people from different cultures helps.
- I got 3/18. I'm not sure what to think of that. I live in a city full of Asian people, international students, tourists etc etc. One of my best friends in high school was Korean. One of my closest friends at uni was Japanese. One of my close friends now is Chinese.
Is it good or bad? I don't know.
- Some of the tests feel like they're trying to trick you. How would you ever know with the nori roll if you weren't there?
by thinking_cactus
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- The architectural version is interesting to me. There's really a world of difference, but you need to know some history and some of the "cultural vibes" particular to each country to understand.
by davidcollantes
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- "Out of 18, you scored 9". I am considered "normal". Best compliment of the day.
by WesleyJohnson
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- Very uncultured and untraveled caucasian here. I got 10/18, surprising myself. Probably plenty of luck, but at least 5 or 6 I was quite confident about. Not sure how.
by beratbozkurt0
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- It looks site is down.
by vivzkestrel
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- You forgot to add North East Indians to this list
by tjwebbnorfolk
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- Now do England, Ireland, Germany, France :)
by YeGoblynQueenne
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- That's great, but I wonder whether SE Asian people are any better at telling e.g. what European country someone is from, or what African country etc. It's a bit shit but we all look the same if you look from far enough away. Like, I'm Greek but I have fair hair, skin and eyes despite most people in the UK expecting me to be "olive skinned" and I have friends who could easily pass for Swedish, or, conversely, Libyan or Pakistani. You just can't tell.
E.g. one of the Mongol invaders from Medieval Total War II had a soundbite that said "You all look the same to me!". I guess we all do.
- "Out of 18, you scored 1". I am so sorry.
- 1/18 must be some new low. Inverse genius it told me.
- 6. It turns out they do all look the same, to me.
by fallinghawks
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- I played this quite a few years ago and felt pretty certain that they deliberately chose photos that were atypical of each ethnicity. That said, there kind of is no typical Chinese look since it's such a huge country. Those in the north are taller and have similarities to Koreans, those in the south will have more similarities to Vietnamese.
- Little houses, on the hillside...
by martini333
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- Now do the same for Scandinavia, Africa, South America or anywhere else...
by MaikaDiHaika
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- I got 5/18, whoops.
- 3/18
by int27h-tsr
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- it's a trap: they are all chinese
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