Why do they look different?

Question

Have you ever noticed? You can be from the same race, but yet look very different if you are from different countries. And this is in spite of the fact you are not a person of a mixed marriage.

For example, when I am in Australia, I can distinguish quite clearly an Australian of British decent and one who is from the UK. This has nothing to do with how the person speaks or behave. All you need to do is to look at the person and you can tell he ain't Aussie.

Likewise, when I introduced my Japanese friend to the Japanese community in Australia, he told me immediately they didn't look exactly like his people back home. He told me they look quite different from that of his people.

Likewise, American Anglo Saxson don't look exactly like their counterparts in the UK or Australia.

Why is it people of the same race can look different if they are of different nationalities?

Answer 1

I had not noticed this. I will look into it

Answer 2

Maybe it's the need to adopt that prompts the body to assimilate certain features. Weather or climate could be a factor. Life style may also be one factor. These and other factor combine to affect a persons features.
A friend of mine went Saudi Arabia to work. He stayed there for almost 3 years working with various nationalities, but mostly dealing with Arab people. When he came home, I could hardly recognize him. He looked like an Arab with a goatee, a darker complexion, and a stern countenance. The body probably adopted these features for survival. I think. What do you say?

Answer 3

Smaller community, Smaller gene pool. Physical traits get less mixed up so they look different. Then from the larger country as a whole. Something that started out just a few people meeting, marrying and mingling becoming many Can also make people look different. It all goes back to the original people that started the community.

Answer 4

Well you have to think, just because there the same race, doesn't mean they like to do,or say, or act a certain way the same way. A lot of that has to do with there culture. Where they are from, and how they are raised. What may be acceptable in one country might not be acceptable in another. Besides just because they are the same races doesn't make them identical. Just means they have the same ethnic background.

Answer 5

It's called "GENETIC DRIFT". When communities are separated by distance or geographic features such as oceans, the population tends to contain and multiply characteristics that will be different from those of the population of origin. Certain features are being exaggerated, or lost, or changed, over generations, and this process is somewhat different in a different group in a different place due to genetic variation. It's proof of evolutionary theory, by the way.

Answer 6

I believe that people from different nations look different from there counterpart from there native country of orgin, because of the cultural norms in that particular region. I also think that it can be traced back to biblical history, relating to the people of babble, where they were separated and spread across the world even though they descented from the same place. It can not be explained it just is, and it is so facinating scientifically as well as religiously.

Answer 7

All people look different. A person's looks,physical,emotional, mental actions and everyday cultural differences are based on the region of the world in which they live in. The world regions are made differently, so the inhabitants of the region have to adjustment to the culture,ethnics, climate, food, government,etc. Just think of humans as animals because, we are and we have to adjust, look different, and act different in certain regions to survive.

Answer 8

I think our cultures gently rub off on us and gradually alter genetics.
Take for example two twin girls separated at birth. One grows up in California and the other say Alabama.
They meet up years later and one of them chews tobacco and is missing a few teeth. Same momma just different parts of the country...

Answer 9

When you are emersed in a grp you pick up commonalities.
It is quite common. In some cases it has to do with blood. Different dominant characteristics spread in a general are and stay there. Your case is a perfect example with so much distance seperating you.

Mexicans from mexico are quite different from those from here.

Answer 10

This is the real reason: it's because SOCIETIES (as opposed to cultures) have characteristic facial expressions. Think of a dumb blonde, that stupid ditzy look on her face, straight out of Reseda. The typical, empty airheaded look. That's an American thing. Now, in France, their characteristic expression is a pout. They call it a "moue". EVEN THEIR GODDAMN MANIKINS have it. Hand to God. You look in a store window and all those manikins have pouts on their faces. I once saw a dude unconsciously practising his little pout, while I was over there. He looked like a late twenties banker or something, he was in a suit, he had his little briefcase and he was walking along, pouting. It was like, bizarre.
We grow up and all around us, we unconsciously mimic what we see. Americans see blank, empty headed mouth breathers. People growing up in totalitarian countries see expressions of hopelessness that becomes part of their own face, forever.

Answer 11

There are differences between races and variations within races. This is also true in the other animal and plant worlds. I suppose this is probably because of genetic inhiertance.