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They have darker skin for a start, they dress different they act different etc
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They have darker skin for a start, they dress different they act different etc
He had a peg-leg and a parrot, and kept saying 'Arrrrr'. And he was black so they knew he wasn't Johnny Depp.
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Just lol.
So the same people that can't tell the difference between Sikh, Hindu, Muslim people and label all of them as P**** all of a sudden are experts on telling brown people apart by bone structure, skin colour and behaviour.
You're really only kidding yourself here
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Have to admit when this story broke, I thought it took place in a Building society.....ahem! 
Not that difficult to tell apart a Somali, Nigerian etc or in a more general nature; East Africans from West Africans etc.
Don't know the details of 'looked Somali' though.
Not sure why I feel weird for saying it. I can spot a Nigerian a mile off
- living there for 7 years may help.
Don't know the details of 'looked Somali' though.
Not sure why I feel weird for saying it. I can spot a Nigerian a mile off
- living there for 7 years may help.
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Where are all the "if you think we're different you're racist" crowd?
^^^ this really
I mean yes you might confuse Sudanese, Somali, Ethiopian etc.. but people from that region do have a distinctive look in comparison to black people from West Africa (and in turn the Caribbean).
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...78,d.d2k&fp=fea6c688a8978e75&biw=1105&bih=538
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...I&biw=1105&bih=538&sei=Eau9UfScNoHO0QWIjoGoCg
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I can't tell if that's a racist statemeht or not? Not all foreigners oook alike.
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A west european looks different from a east european.
A west afro looks different from a east afro.
Of course it isn't racist, jesus.
African facial diversity is less because they have common features like a flattened nose and bigger lips, so to a European they do at first glance look the same.
I could probably pick out a Zambian becuase I've met a few, I'm not sure I could then tell the difference between them and a Kenyan.
All Staffordians look the same because there is massive inbreeding in that town, nobody complains there (because the complaint forms only accept biro, not crayon)
How do you tell a specific persons nationality simply by looking at them?
And how on this Gods Earth did you come to conclude that such a question could even be considered to mean "all foreigners look alike?" let alone be racist...
So a Somalian dressed in clothes in keeping with the fashion of the place they lived (in this case London) would look distinctly different from an African American or a Jamaican or a Nigerian or any number of nationalities who possess similar ethnic characteristics.....
lol!!!
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If someone did say that the person was simalian and he did turn out to be Somalian then what happens? Good guess or stereotyping working properly?
I have no idea...but I would like to know how someone would know what nationality a person is, simply by looking at them.
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Skin tone, features, clothing, accent, mannerisms, statements.
Yes, to the trained eye or someone familiar with the differences.
In the same way you could take two recent tennis players Greg Rudeski and Tim Henman and say which one was born in North America and which one the UK with a degree of certainty.
There is nothing racist in it. Certain races have certain phenotypic features - it is hardly shocking as we categorise their origins on their genotypic differences.
Of course this really be a racial assessment and not necessarily totally accurate or indicative of nationality. But due to the fact where people live we could across a population have a degree of accuracy. That person x, y, z features comes from a certain racial background. People of a certain racial background mainly live in countries x, y, z and therefore with a degree of certainty that person would come from that country.
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Could you, simply by looking at them? Greg Rusedski could have been born in Harrow for all I know, is he American or Canadian? is he of English or Polish descent? How do you judge the nationality of someone simply by looking at them as they walk into a building?...Similar to Mel Gibson..is he Australian, English or American....there is no innate distinguishing attributes to the cursory viewer that would discern there nationality in such a specific way...
I am not saying that there are not ways to determine someone's nationality under examination, but simply by seeing a chap walk down the street into a building....I doubt it.
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Skin tone? That could be indicative of any number of nationality's or none...it could be an inherited trait and not indigenous to the persons nationality at all.
Features?, similarly the case.
Clothing?....was the chap dressed in Somalian national dress?
Mannerisms, Statements?...He was seen simply walking into a mosque by a passer-by.
Yes, you could.