Do the Chinese think white people look the same as we think all Chinese look the same?

中國人是否像我們認(rèn)為中國人都長得一樣那樣，認(rèn)為白人看起來都一樣,？

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Megan Cox, Living in Shenzhen with my Chinese (Teochew) family
和我的中國(潮州)家人住在深圳
Sometimes when my fiancé and I eat out, we strike up a good conversation with the restaurant owner.
One day we met a couple that made great Teochew noodles. We stayed at the little restaurant for an hour, talking about life and our origins, traveling between the US and China, etc. We smoked a few cigarettes together, drank Pu Erh tea and I even spoke a little Teochew so my fiancé could show off to the elders what he’d taught me.
After a while, we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.

曾經(jīng)有一次我和未婚夫出去吃飯,，我們和餐館老板聊得很開心,。
一天,，我們?nèi)ゲ宛^吃潮州面條，老板是一對夫婦,。我們在小餐館吃了一個小時,談?wù)撋詈臀覀兊墓枢l(xiāng),美國和中國之間的旅行,等等,。我們一起抽了幾根煙,喝了點(diǎn)茶,我甚至可以說潮汕話，所以我的未婚夫可以跟這些長輩們炫耀這都是他教我的,。
聊了一會兒,，我們道了別，離開了餐館,。



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Lydia Colton
Yes - for the ones who live in China - even if they have access to western media.
I lived in China for two years as an ESL teacher to adults. I am a red-headed very pale white person with freckles and light green eyes.
I was told by my students that I looked like:
Lindsay Lohan (obvi, the light hair and freckles made us twins.)

是的——對那些住在中國的人來說——即使他們可以接觸到西方媒體,。
我在中國當(dāng)了兩年的成人英語老師。我是一個紅頭發(fā),，非常蒼白的人,，有雀斑和淺綠色的眼睛。
我的學(xué)生告訴我,，我看起來像:
林賽·羅翰,，（很明顯，淺色頭發(fā)和雀斑讓我們看上去像是雙胞胎）,，除此之外,，還像

Catherine Zeta Jones
Penelope Cruz
Elizabeth Hurley
Jennifer Lopez
Rachel Weisz
Kate Winslet
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jennifer Lawrence
Kim Kardashian

凱瑟琳·澤塔·瓊斯
佩內(nèi)洛普·克魯茲
伊麗莎白·赫莉
詹妮弗?洛佩茲
蕾切爾·薇茲
凱特?溫絲萊特
格溫妮絲·帕特洛
詹妮弗·勞倫斯
金·卡戴珊



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Petter Brenna Rian, been immersed in many cultures
Absolutely.
Just like I once mistook a Chinese lady for my own girlfriend (who was ethnically Chinese), many Chinese and other Asians think we look the same.
I live in Taiwan, and it has happened on many occasions.
The common one is random strangers on the street who greets me believing I’m some white guy they know. They don’t. Sometimes they slow down to initiate a conversation. No, thanks.

必須的。
就像我曾經(jīng)把一個中國女人誤認(rèn)為是我自己的女朋友(她是華裔)一樣,，許多中國人和其他亞洲人認(rèn)為我們長得一樣,。
我住在臺灣，這種情況發(fā)生過很多次,。
最常見的是街上的陌生人,，他們跟我打招呼，以為我是他們認(rèn)識的白人,。他們認(rèn)錯人了。有時他們會放慢速度開始談話,。不,拜托,。



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Iris Tu, studied at The University of Texas at Austin
Yes and Yes.
I actually think that white people are a little easier to tell apart - there are more characteristics (eye shape, hair color, eye color skin color [some are more tan than others], freckles, nose shape/height…) and something might stick out. Just to let you know, I’m someone who isn’t good at noticing much about appearances even with myself, but the chances of me remembering someone who isn’t Asian (or, in this case, Chinese) is higher due to something that stands out. If nothing stands out, you’re like every other Asian to me. 

是的,確實(shí)如此。
事實(shí)上,，我認(rèn)為白人還更容易區(qū)分一點(diǎn)——他們有更多的特征(眼睛的形狀,、頭發(fā)的顏色,、眼睛的顏色(有些人比其他人更黑)、雀斑,、鼻子的形狀/高度……我只是想讓你知道,，我是一個不太善于注意外表的人，甚至連我自己的外表也不太注意,，但我記住一個不是亞洲人(或者,，在這個例子中，不是中國人)的幾率更高,，因?yàn)樗麄兊耐獗砀c眾不同,。對我來說，所有的亞洲人都長得一樣,。



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Robert Tsao, I live and work in China我在中國生活,，工作
Yes.
I have two White friends here that have different hairstyles, different builds, are of different height, and one is bespectacled while the other friend isn’t. Despite all of these glaring points, my ex-girlfriend (a local Chinese) failed to tell the difference between them. The reason? Both of them had beards, which isn’t a very common facial features among Han Chinese men.
She said, with a sheepish grin, “all foreigners look the same to me, to be honest”

是的。
我有兩個白人朋友,，他們有不同的發(fā)型,，不同的身材，不同的身高,，一個戴著眼鏡,，另一個不戴。盡管有這些突出的地方,，我的前女友(一個中國人)還是無法區(qū)分他們,。原因呢?原因是他們都留著胡子，這在漢人的面部特征中并不常見,。
她羞怯地笑著說:“老實(shí)說,，在我看來，所有的外國人都長得一樣,?！?br>


“The USA.”
“South Africa.”
“Oh, what are you doing in Switzerland?”
They gave me a weird look and said “We’re from the TB conference…”
If you’re reading this, I’m sorry I couldn’t remember your faces out of the dozens of other middle-aged white guys in suits, I’ll try harder next year!

“美國”。
“南非”,。
“哦,，你在瑞士做什么?”
他們奇怪地看了我一眼，說:“我們是來參加結(jié)核病會議的……”
如果你倆正在讀這篇文章,，我很抱歉,，在其他幾十個穿著西裝的中年白人中，我忘記了你們的臉,，明年我會更加努力的!

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Derek Harkness, Living and working in China since 2006.從06年開始在中國生活,，居住
You’ll be comforted to know that ignorance, racism and xenophobia are not confined to the western hemisphere.
Yes, Chinese people do sometimes struggle to identify western faces. We all find it hard to identify people from within unfamiliar ethnicities.

讓你感到欣慰的是，無知,、種族主義和仇外情緒并不僅限于西半球,。
是的,，中國人有時的確很難認(rèn)出西方人的面孔。我們都很難從不熟悉的種族中辨認(rèn)出某個人來,。



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Andy Giroux, Co-Founder of Charged Concepts by night - software engineer by day
The answer is yes, for some of them. However, this isn't just a problem for white people or Chinese people. This happens with people all over the world when introduced to a nationality and facial structure they are not used to.

對他們中的一些人來說,，答案是肯定的。然而,，這不僅僅是白人或中國人的問題,。這種情況適用于在世界各地，當(dāng)人們看到一個他們不熟悉的民族和面部結(jié)構(gòu)時都會這樣,。

As I understand it, when you grow up with limited racial diversity around you, your brain becomes accustomed to those types of faces so then seeing a face that contains features your brain isn't used to throws it off a bit, and it takes a while for it to recalibrate to the new types of faces and their features. For example, if an American who wasn't used to Asian face went to China, that person might have trouble distinguishing faces at first. However, if they spent enough time there, maybe a few weeks or a month (maybe even less), they would then much more easily be able to tell the difference between individual faces. This would happen automatically as well through no additional effort of the individual.

我對此表示理解,當(dāng)你長大的環(huán)境里你周圍的種族多樣性很有限,你的大腦變得習(xí)慣于這些類型的臉然后當(dāng)你看到一張臉,這張臉包含了你的大腦并不常用來分辨人臉的特征時,它需要一段時間重新調(diào)整以熟悉新類型的面孔和它們的特性,。例如，如果一個不習(xí)慣亞洲面孔的美國人去了中國,，他可能在一開始就很難辨別不同的面孔,。然而，如果他們花足夠的時間在那里,，也許幾個星期或一個月(也許更少的時間),，他們就能更容易地分辨出不同的面孔。這也會自動發(fā)生,，不需要個人的額外努力,。

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Gary Fixler
Most, if not all groups think this about other groups. There were virtually no Asians where I grew up, and we thought they were indistinguishable from one another. I moved to LA, where there are many Asians, and I worked with them (first day at one job I had lunch with 12 people, all Asian), and I started to get to know them and their various personalities, and now I don’t think Asians look anything alike. They’re all quite different looking to me. I’m too familiar with too many of them. There are a lot of anchors now in my head for my pattern-matching to use in seeing how unique they all are. Even if someone looks a lot like a particular Asian friend of mine, I don’t notice the similarities, but the differences. They are definitely not the person I know; they only resemble them a bit. That said, there are occasionally 2 people who are really hard to tell apart, but that happens for every race for me, including my own. I’ve watched shows where all the white guys on it feel like copies of each other. It always makes me annoyed at the casting director.
This tendency to think members of groups you’re not part of are much more similar to each other than members of your own group is called Out-group homogeneity.

就算不是全部，至少大多數(shù)人在遇到其他種族的時候都會如此,。我成長的地方幾乎沒有亞洲人,，我們認(rèn)為他們彼此之間沒有什么區(qū)別。我后來搬到洛杉磯,，那里有很多亞洲人,，我和他們一起工作(第一天我和12個人共進(jìn)午餐，都是亞洲人),，我開始了解他們和他們不同的性格,，現(xiàn)在我覺得亞洲人長得一點(diǎn)也不像。在我看來他們都很不同,。我對他們太熟悉了?，F(xiàn)在在我的頭腦中有很多特征點(diǎn)用于人臉匹配，可以清晰的分辨出他們的不同,。即使其中某個人長得很像我的一位亞洲朋友,，我也不會注意到他們之間的相似之處，我也只會更為注意到他們之間的區(qū)別而非相似之處,。他們絕對不是我認(rèn)識的那個人;他們只是長得有點(diǎn)像,。也就是說，偶爾會有兩個人很難區(qū)分,，但對我來說,，每一個種族都是如此，包括我自己的種族,。我看過一些電視劇,，里面所有的白人角色都像是彼此的復(fù)制品。我總是對選角導(dǎo)演很生氣,。
這種認(rèn)為其他種族的人比你自己種族的人更相似的傾向被稱為“外群體同質(zhì)效應(yīng)”,。