Race

[Noth]

cannot tell the difference between Aussie and New Zeland accents. Can anyone tell me? :|

Ask em both to say 'milk.'
The NZ version will generally sound more like "Mulk" and the Australian like "Milk."
Or have a NZ person say "I don't have a Kiwi accent." NZers tend to pronounce accent more like accint, stretching the i sound a little.

Had to do a master course on English accents last year, so I recognised the NZ accents in the vid immediately.
Oh, and 9 out of 10 times when I see someone or a group of people walking through our city centre that I think look a bit German they, in fact, are. Don't know why, but I have the tendency to pick em out of the crowd. Only Germans though The other Caucasians fool me normally

 

[Aught3]

cannot tell the difference between Aussie and New Zeland accents. Can anyone tell me? :|

Aussie accents are irritating, New ZeAland accents are sexy.

 

[Anachronous Rex]

In fairness, in most of the places I've been to in Europe, something around 80% of the population look as though they could be from anywhere on the continent (or say... at least that third of the continent.) Only rarely to you come across someone and think to yourself, "that guy is Greek"

I got the same impression, additionally, I saw a Korean speaking of his stay in Japan, he said people noticed he wasn't Japanese only after he didn't understand Japanese

In spite of what they tend to think, I don't really believe there is an enormous difference between East Asian races in terms of appearance (and especially not between Japan/Korea/Okinawa.) Sure, there are people who are very obviously Chinese or whatnot, but the 80% rule probably applies to them as well. Only in Southeast Asia do features become more radically pronounced.

 

[kenandkids]

I got the same impression, additionally, I saw a Korean speaking of his stay in Japan, he said people noticed he wasn't Japanese only after he didn't understand Japanese

In spite of what they tend to think, I don't really believe there is an enormous difference between East Asian races in terms of appearance (and especially not between Japan/Korea/Okinawa.) Sure, there are people who are very obviously Chinese or whatnot, but the 80% rule probably applies to them as well. Only in Southeast Asia do features become more radically pronounced.

I can pretty easily tell the difference between most asians. Many people have a problem because Koreans and Japanese come from the same relatively recent stock. I've never met anyone that confuses a Chinese person with an Indian though...

 

[Anachronous Rex]

In spite of what they tend to think, I don't really believe there is an enormous difference between East Asian races in terms of appearance (and especially not between Japan/Korea/Okinawa.) Sure, there are people who are very obviously Chinese or whatnot, but the 80% rule probably applies to them as well. Only in Southeast Asia do features become more radically pronounced.

I can pretty easily tell the difference between most asians. Many people have a problem because Koreans and Japanese come from the same relatively recent stock. I've never met anyone that confuses a Chinese person with an Indian though...

Do you consider Indians East Asian? Or is this not aimed at me?

I agree, by the way.

 

[kenandkids]

That's difficult. Of course they are asian in location, but their gene poll has many traits that are different from Asians, due to travel patterns and outside influences.

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Alright, I was just checking because I did not consider the subcontinent at all in my assertion.