[yqpY4iw6]

Oh and don't worry. Asians will still look Asian

[unishisse]

After comparing the composites and individuals in Amsterdam, I can only conclude that interbreeding is a good thing for these people

Yeah but for whatever reason, the composites look 'attractive' even though the people made up from them are not. Look at Istanbul. Everyone of those men is ugly as **** (I mean surprisingly ugly) but the composite miraculously looks normal.

[BenWired306]

Yeah, continued miscegenation would cause human skin tone to approach the median over time, ie we'll look like Arabs and Latinos. Did that actually surprise you?

I already said of course you would get more of a human average, but it's still striking regardless.

And it's not just skin-tone. Facial features as well. The Amsterdam and Cologne examples are hardly Dutch and German features. They look indistinguishable from the Mediterranean 'stock'.

[neguoogleX]

the thing that strikes me most living in rio de janeiro today is the sheer variety of colours, hues and features, not that everyone looks the same. and, this is after decades and centuries of mixing.

They have several composites from different parts of Sao Paulo, but not from Rio...

From Paulista Avenue:


From Santo Amaro:


Clearly, there was more of an African influence in the Santo Amaro.

That's kind of what I was getting at. Why should the mixture of the population of Amsterdam or Cologne be so Arab/Spanish looking if a bit paler and not something else entirely? More likely, there would be various people still reminiscent of the vast continuum of human skintones and features. I would think the best representation would be if Amsterdam's composite was Mixed Human Type 1 and Cologne's was Mixed Human Type 2 that looked much different, not looking virtually the same as Lisbon or Buenos Aires.

(By the way, as an aside, it's interesting how the Santo Amaro composite looks obviously Black to our sensibilities but it's objectively not all that different from any of the others. Interesting how very slight visual cues allow us to instantly differentiate races)

[Queueftof]

I disagree. There's no way I can prove it, but the Cologne face looks distinctly German to me. London too looks very English still.

That might have something to do with what I just said... it's interesting how the subtlest cues allow us to differentiate people. Objectively, there is very little difference in any of those composites, especially considering the vast differences within the people whom the composites are made up of and the differences between your typical Londoner or Damascene. The net result is something that if we were to do things like measure the ratio of the length and width of the face, cheekbone structure, the build of the nose, etc. we'd might just find very little variation between the Cologne and Damascus composites, but something intuitively to some of us makes us be able to differentiate.

As an American who has no contact with Germans or Dutch or English, I'm not acquianted enough perhaps to pick up on those cues. To me, the Cologne composite looks like he could be the Damascus composite's brother.

[BigMovies]

Sydney

[Cwvnyfsj]

Yeah but for whatever reason, the composites look 'attractive' even though the people made up from them are not. Look at Istanbul. Everyone of those men is ugly as **** (I mean surprisingly ugly) but the composite miraculously looks normal.

Not really that suprising. The average face looks normal? Gee who would have thought! Lots of people would esentially look ok, if it weren't for a detail or two that makes them fugly, average people out and since no one's flaws are not exactly like everyone elses and they get drowned out and you get ok looking people.

[AlexanderPalamayr]

As an American who has no contact with Germans or Dutch or English, I'm not acquianted enough perhaps to pick up on those cues. To me, the Cologne composite looks like he could be the Damascus composite's brother.

That must be it. I can often pick out Danish people in a crowd. There's a typical 'Danish' look that far from all Danes have, but many have it, and without a doubt it is a different look from Swedes or Germans. Then again I can identify Swedes on vacation before I hear them speak just by the particular orange hue of their tan.

Damascus looks Middle Eastern (and it's not just the ugly mustache). I might not have picked out Lebanese but I would certainly say somewhere between Palestine and Iraq.

If you do the same thing opening up the two pictures and switching back and forth between them, the orientation of the Buenos Aires and Damascus are the same and it's interesting how they are literally the same in features. Switching between them, it's like only the background changes. The nose, eyebrows, cheeks, everything is unchanged. I did that. It's hard to pindown what exactly distinguishes Cologne and Buenos Aires because of the tilt you mentioned and the clear difference in age, but the faces are definitely shaped differently. With Buenos Aires and Damascus it's easier - the shape is again very different, the chin, the nose, the eyes, the ears, everything.

[freevideom]

Don't gay up the thread!

And I'm sure it was all a wonderful paradise for you, besides the Sydney. I already know you love swarthiness. The only reason why I didn't do all women was because none of the Islamic areas (Damascus, Ankara, or Istanbul) had female representation.

I love the excuses you always come up with. You don't need to hide it any more, Alby.

[Retapleapse]

I did that. It's hard to pindown what exactly distinguishes Cologne and Buenos Aires because of the tilt you mentioned and the clear difference in age, but the faces are definitely shaped differently. With Buenos Aires and Damascus it's easier - the shape is again very different, the chin, the nose, the eyes, the ears, everything.

You really think so? With regards to the Buenos Aires and Damascus? The ears are a little off but everything else looks the same too me. The set and I guess almond shape of the eyes is the same, the brows are unchanged, the length and width of the nose, the width of the nostrils is the same. Focus on individual parts and you still think they're different? The chin might look a bit different but that might just be because of the effect of shadow on the Buenos Aires' chin. The Damascus has a stronger jaw and a shorter forehead but see little variations like that I wouldn't attribute to ethnicity but more to individual variation and diet (the prominence of the jaw is believe it or not highly based on diet from my understanding of early 20th century research of the introduction of agriculture into primitive societies and the resultant changes in jaw structure; diet definitely plays a role in that)

[ViagraPriceBuying]

also they only went to copacabana in rio, which is pretty unrepresentative of the city as a whole. if they went to a zona norte neighbourhood, then the face would be darker, if they'd gone to the complexo do alemão, the face would have been very black.

it's the same thing in london, it depends where you go, you're going to get a very different composite in the tate modern than if you went to manor park or southall...

That's true. ethnic neighborhoods abound and would drastically affect the composite.

[Keendwainge]

Sydney

You'll have to ask his Nanny if he's allowed out Asher