is it possible to tell white ethnicities apart?

Question

I was looking at a picture of the singer from the french canadian band "simple plan" and i thought "yeah, he LOOKS french" ...just his features and all, can't really put my finger on what....same with actors jamie bell and gary lucy...i can tell their english even when they fake american accents....is it just me, or do white people of differant national origins look differant? how come americans/english canadians look differant from british people even though the british colonized north america? is it something in their water supply that makes them look differant?

Answer 1

Yes, I think so.

Example: The French from France, French-Canadians, French-Swiss, French-Belgians all look French: Narrow faces, blue/green eyes, and dark hair.

Germans have a distinct look -- they look almost Scandinavian in the north of Germany, but Germans from the south of Germany, the French from the south of France and Northern Italians all tend to have a similar look and facial features to them.

Likewise Greeks, Sicilians, and southern Italians look very similar.

Scandinavians -- Danes, Swedes and Norwegians also have a distinct look -- long narrow faces, yet Finns tend to have slightly almond-shaped eyes, most likely due to Asiatic blood from the Lapps.

Spaniards and Portuguese people (Iberians) tend to have dark features and dark hair with a slightly reddish tint.

Eastern European people have a "Slavic" look which I can identify, but which is tough to describe.

I hope I have helped and that I did not offend anyone.

Answer 2

I can't tell them apart and I'm white. My buddy's little girl is a gorgeous, fair skinned, blue eyed, light blonde haired little thing, much like her mother (well, except for the gorgeous part), and my buddy is 100% Mexican. You'd think that child was Swedish to look at her. His brother married a white girl and his kid looks solid white too. So, if I can't even tell a half Mexican girl from the standard cracker, I'd be in trouble if I had to start telling which whitey came from where.

Answer 3

properly yeah there's a southern eu look and a northern and western etc. I frequently can not tell asians aside, yet there change into easily a study declaring it really is lots more effective sturdy to inform different races aside.