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justsignedupforthishit
Anderson Cooper in the matrix.
smilodonthefatalis
You could say everybody from any ethnic group "looks the same".
Sionas
I mean when you are accustomed to seeing certain people, you notice differences more easily. But these guys look pretty different.
NJWatson
minkuschild
White hair and suits. Sure their white but fuck..... alot more differences. Like HEIGHT for example.....
codenamenothing
As an asian who is asian, all i can say is asian asian asian. AoA.
WoolyBullyDoesNotRhymeWithSully
A guy I work with says all white people look alike and smell like balogna.
BednaR
...err.. apart from being gray and male...they look nothing alike?
TheDeanofLean
I'm going to be honest, and can't tell white women with blonde hair apart from each other on TV.
mumumumumysharona
Cowlerson
If she weren't squinting she might be able to tell the difference
KingofFools
Gosh, all these humans look alike
ABadManWithABeard
Why is Lucy Liu talking shit on Liam Neeson?
izmuri
Ihatehumans1
they all look remarkably different
Barkinsons
It's easier to distinguish people in your cultural background, the brain gets more versatile with experience in face recognition
izmuri
The only similarity they have is white hair
Vedar
As I am sure an asian will tell you about all the other asians they know...
whothehellareyouanyway
I'm not gay or nothin', but that Anderson Cooper is a sexy goddamn beast.
Flixster
bananatoast
And a Vanderbilt. Plus one for old school US elite!
mynamejenkins
These guys barely look alike in facial structure, like at all. It's basically just hair and skin color, not even hair style.
captainasspirate
Oh the irony. Even her tweet makes her sound asian. "look same" she might as well have replaced al the L's with R's
quietwalker
Technically, there's less diversity in facial morphology in asians than whites, so relatively speaking, they tend to look more more alike.
imnotlostinlifeijustdonthaveanywheretogo
So he's got three different ties what's the big deal
PleasePMMeYourFeet
Why is Anderson Cooper interviewing two Mikes Pence?
Tankdoggy
The one on the right is General Mark Hertling, and is a good human being.
CrestKnight
asians have smoother faces, less wrinkles and just less details overall to differentiate. have to go by mainly by hair/shape of head/body
MrDustey
It's almost as if we're all part of a species that tends to share similar physical traits
Vulspyr
Those three guys only have their hair colour that's the same.
HarleyQuinnRomance
I will defend Anderson cooper though. That poor man has been through so much crap to do his job.
jlist
When I first arrived in Japan I travelled to Yokohama and kept "recognizing" my students from 100 km away. My brain was slowly getting used
jlist
to being in Asia. I've been mistaken for different gaijin by Japanese several times, too. It's part of being human
WEAREGRID
Fun fact, I've always heard it said that asians have weird eyes but I can't actually tell how they're different from regular eyes.
ImHereToTellYouThatsWrong
the somewhat different shaped face (different cheekbones, nose bridges etc) together with epicanthic folds make the eyes look 'almond' shape
WEAREGRID
I mean people say this, but I've had asian and white friends stand side by side and i still can't tell. It's weird.
ImHereToTellYouThatsWrong
1/2 No I do get it You kinda explained it by getting friends to sit side by side the distinction comes from not seeing those features often.
ImHereToTellYouThatsWrong
2/2 the same way that you can track how well Americans distinguish between African-Americans in pictures by how mono-racial the community is
xxtaylor97xx
Yeah, as an asian I always think Mark Damon and Matt Wahlberg look the same. Wait what
jakaii
They look like friggin brothers
madmathematicienne
Oh oh, I forgot John Cena and Channing Tatum. I found out they're not the same person a few months ago.
madmathematicienne
Throw in Leonardo DiCaprio too... The Departed was incomprehensible because of all the look-alike white boys (and I'm white.)
AxisBond
Wait, Leo as well? The other two made it hell at times, but I don't think I've heard anyone throw Leo into the mix before.
madmathematicienne
He doesn't always look the same as them to me, but for some reason I couldn't tell them apart in that movie. YMMV.
ArsePirate
I always get those two fuckers confused when I seen them in movies!
RollingAzn
You forgot Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe
ForgotMyOtherAcct
I didn't believe they were different people for years.
jlist
Ha! Was waiting for someone to bring up Matt.
SilverTimeMaker
Also Katy Perry, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Blunt and a ton of other attractive white females http://data.whicdn.com/images/21637668/large.png
xxtaylor97xx
Oh my gosh
aussiecaleb
The only thing they have in common is white hair
Snarkoleptic
White hair, horse face, big long nose, small narrow eyes, thin lips, squareish jaw, skin tone, quite a few things actually
ImHereToTellYouThatsWrong
also cheekbones, brow (mostly visible in 1-2) and mouthshape. Minor stuff that stands out or in other words
takichandler
They look the same to me. I'm white.
jlist
But it's that "successful white man with power" hair style and identical suit, too.
izmuri
LordKrondor9000
Wow, I didn't know a black suit with a white shirt was a rare look
nickg131
And the suits are different actually. One's black, one's navy blue and one's blue with white plaid stripes on it =|
jlist
You might be surprised at the rather high variation in Asian hair color (black/dark brown), skin color, face and nose shape,etc
jlist
You probably don't "see" them the same unless you've lived in Asia, or maybe San Francisco ^^
Puffmax
As an Asian I can definitely say it's Asians that all look the same.
younglunatic
You Indian you
Puffmax
Nope, Chinese
NirvanaNik
There it is.
Baromian
Really I mean I guess an Indian and a Russian may look similar.
DoctorSnakebeast
Are you sure you're the one that thinks that?
WedsBunneh
True, as an Asian, I can agree. I lost my mom in a Farmer's Market because it was like she went into camo mode. Herds of Moms. All alike.
pumpseidon
ROR so funny
BluffinMuffin
Those men look alike. Not the same
jlist
But, same "powerful white hair" man hair style, similar suits
TheYellowSpeechBubble
As a Korean, almost all K-pop girls look the same to me now.
jlist
Part of it is your guys' love of plastic surgery resulting in everyone trying to attain the same beauty idel
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
I'm guessing that's because cosmetic surgery is so common there, especially with stars.
jlist
In a Korean anime I watched, the high school kids made jokes about who was "natural" and who was "fixed." Fucking high school kids!
NobodyLurksLikeGaston
Sadly not just anime / pop culture. Plastic surgery is not an uncommon graduation gift
kibateo
I think it depends on where you grow up, if an asian grew up in a western background he'd suck at recognising asians too and vice versa
LifeHasManyDoorsEddBoy
That's exactly what happens. Ahh synaptic pruning, you are the bane and savour of us all.
greentinroof
CounterOfCandles
Vandammit
This is racist and fantastic.
greentinroof
Disney.
Vandammit
Thats why I support them, Siamese cat with buck teeth and slant eyes, this is classic institutionalized racism.
WEAREGRID
Have you seen any movie taking place in modern Japan? It's a sea of the same haircut! I'm not programmed to tell the difference!
wtfIm
They should adopt their anime culture and dye their hair different colors.... except they could be confused with sjw
LordKrondor9000
Only people important to the story can dye their hair
Danickel0902
Isn't the term for it daijubo or something like that? Someone in my D&D group refers to us as that in character.
HitlersRupturedColon
Daijoubu- is often the way you tell others you are "fine," in Japanese. Generally, it can mean both yes and no. Daijoubu is also used as the
miados
so if you have a baby in japan with say blue hair you know your kid is a main character?
LordKrondor9000
This is already a thing
SodaCracker
Isn't everyone important to their own story?
Frederf
No, I'm an NPC.
OriginalNameDoNotSteal
I'm not even the main character in my own story
MyMouthTastesSoapy
This was heartwarming, weirdly.
IndependentHampster
exlurker42
Talked to an exchange student from taiwan, he made a crack about all white people looking the same to him. It was remarkably validating.
GentlemanScientist
I dated a Chinese girl who dead serious said that and didn't get why I laughed until I told her, she really hadn't heard it before.
verturdfegusin
I love hearing asians mock/imitate white people. It's hilarious
jlist
What funny is when Japanese make "ching-chong" sounds to imitate what Chinese sounds like. It froze me in my tracks.
earlywormy
Well it literally is half the language. But you gotta sound like you're ending a question with each word.
Delusionallol
Well someone is an uneducated bigot...
GeorgeHWBushsGhost
Are you aware of what is a bigot?
Delusionallol
Okay I get that the bigot part is wrong but this guy just said that a large part of a widely spoken language sounds like Ching Chong
earlywormy
But it literally is half the language. Dipshit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
Delusionallol
I get the question sounding part but definitely not the Ching chong part. I speak Chinese and lived in China and never heard it that much