Is it true that black people that have no exposure to...?

Question

white people think all white people look the same and the same goes for white people, i do know that not many people can tell the difference between chinease, japanease, phillipines, koreans and people from that part of asia, or is it the same for all races

alot of people that have answered this question have called me racist, I personaly can distinquinsh between races, i live in very multicultural london and before that new york, and has spent alot of time in nigeria so i have been exposed to all sort of people , it was an article that i read that suggested people had that difficulty and i wanted to know what people in general thought(am black by the way if that makes any difference) and i think i worded the question wrongly sorry if i caused anyone offence

Answer 1

It appears it is the same for all races. Please see extract below:-

The demographic features, such as race and gender, are involved in human face identity recognition. Humans
are better at recognizing faces of their own ethnicity/race than faces of other races.3, 4 Golby et al. show that
same-race faces elicit more activity in brain regions linked to face recognition.5 They use functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine if the same-race advantage for face identification involves the fusiform face
area (FFA), which is known to be important for face recognition.6 O’Toole et al.7investigate the differences in
the way people perceive own- versus other-race faces. They found that the perceived typicality of own-race faces
was based both on global shape information and on small distinctive feature markers, whereas the typicality of
other-race faces related more to the presence/absence of local distinctive features. O’Toole et al.8 have shown
that people categorize faces of their own-race by sex more efficiently than they categorize faces of another race

Try this link for more details

http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Publications/Face/LuJain_EthnicityFace_SPIE04.pdf

Answer 2

I am not going to bash you for being a racist as I think you are genuinely asking a (althoughly naive) question.

Its the same for all races. My friend's family is Japanese and she says her parents can't tell the difference between one white person from another. I guess its to do with how many people of a race different to yourself that you meet in your everyday life. I have a highly multicultural set of friends, so I can easily distinguish peoples features regardless of race.

My reply to you is to get out an meet and understand other cultures and see for yourself.

Answer 3

Yes, many people have difficulty distinguishing the differences in the individual characteristics in members of like origins. How many Caucasians can accurately name the origin of other Caucasians from physical characteristics alone?
This applies to every color of our global population. If an individual is in other than their cultural group, and is required to identify another person with very similar physical characteristics, and there are no other clues, most of the time they cannot.

Answer 4

It's true for me sometimes even though I have had exposure to white people. I am used to distinguishing features of people I see very often, and for me that's mainly black people. And a few whites. But when it comes to other races that I don't get to see often due to where I live, their main features are all so similar that sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.

Answer 5

i don't think there are any black people that haven't been exposed to white people at some point. on the other hand, there are whole communites of white people that haven't been exposed to black people.They believe many of the stereotypes that mass media broadcasts.and if they ever come into contact with black people are immediately fearful (how sad) i personally don't think that all white people look alike or any other race of people.

Answer 6

Called race based face theory where you generally perceive people outside of your race as looking similar. Obviously, that changes with the more exposure you have to other races.

Answer 7

I agree with Iv...only fools can not tell the differences between cultures/races.

Answer 8

no, i have been exposed to alot of difrren races and that not all white and asian look the same..i ca actually tell a diffrence between them though..

but that is stereotyping it

Answer 9

White people and black people can tell each other apart. You obviously have never been outside in your life. Weirdo.

Answer 10

only ignorant people can't tell the difference between the races or say there is no difference