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To: Lane3 who wrote (97005)	1/26/2005 2:25:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

A Korean from a Thai? This one is easy....

To: Lane3 who wrote (97005)	1/26/2005 2:59:01 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

Yeah, but could you tell an Egyptian from a Saudi Arabian? A Korean from a Thai? I'm not around any of the above very much. The more interesting question would be to ask a number of Koreans whether they can tell Thai's apart from Koreans. And so on. My guess is yes. It's a well known issue in soc/psych that most groups claim members of their own are easily distinguished one from another, but that other groups "all look the same". I.e. to a white, most blacks look confusingly similar, while to many blacks, whites look confusingly similar. One gets used to keying off different attributes. Thats why I said "with practice" I think I could tell French, Italian and Spanish apart from English and German. I suspect many Europeans would be much better at it than I am. I like ethnic restaurants as well, although being vegetarian, it is sometimes a bit harder. Middle Eastern ones are often quite good that way however.