Comments on: Composite Faces of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Women

By: pmrcalaby

pmrcalaby — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:45:07 +0000

I’m relatively sure that the woman in the middle is Korean. Apart from that, no idea.

By: dawn

dawn — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:16:22 +0000

I could not correctly identify them and I am Asian. Certain nationalities have a habitual way of holding a facial expression or posture, then you have the ethnic physical features mixed with blended cultural and societal influences, and it gets even more distracting so I totally understand your confusion in San Francisco. I used to just ask people, if I was curious, if it was out of genuine curiosity to know more about the person. Which is far less insulting than having someone tell you what you are supposed to be because it tells me more about you than who I am supposed to be.

By: val

val — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:56:00 +0000

Janice -

Thank you for your comment. I am not Asian, but after reading all the comments following my opinion
that it was simply not possible to definitively identify particular national groups, I was starting to feel
pretty stupid. I lived for 40 years in the San Francisco Bay area which has a huge Asian population and I still can’t identify with certainty the ethnic background of any particular man or woman.
I’m glad that you share the opinion that it is not as easy to identify a Chinese vs. Korean vs. Japanese as
some posters on this board would have you believe.

By: Janice Y.

Janice Y. — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:31:27 +0000

It’s so funny what you people are writing. There’s no point in a page like this. Most of the people’s generalizations are stereotypical and are wrong. I am completely Han Chinese and I don’t have an “angular face”, I have a rounded one (No, I’m not fat, not in the least). My eyebrows are in a similar distinctive shape that the Japanese person here has. My skin is extremely pale and has been compared to porcelain(multiple times from multiple people), which is what some are claiming as a Korean feature. Come to Southern California, preferably an area where atleast 50% are Asians. You won’t be able to tell the difference in most women AND men since there are no true defining features.

By: Rin

Rin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:37:31 +0000

I agree with Vlad. I, myself am Aisan American. Korean, American to be exact. My skin tone is more of a yellow-ish/light tan color. Not exactly pale. im mixed, so my eyes arn’t as slanted as a regular Korean’s eye. I got the Japanese one right away. The farther right. But the other two were harder. I looked at both of the skin tones, eyes, and mouths of the pics compared to mine. like I said it was harder cuz the korean pic was pale and mines is not…………(sigh…)

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:04:29 +0000

This is so easy:
Chinese, Korean, Japanese

The facial feature placements gave away the Chinese one.
The skin tone, eyes and lower face gave away the Korean one.
The nose and eyebrows gave away the Japanese one.

I just checked, and this is the correct order

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:09:44 +0000

japanese, chinese, korean

Nose of middle one looks just like Wuhan/Red-Cliffs people to me. Eye socket structure also matches.

Left looks more Korean to me than the one on the right.

By: mete

mete — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:33:09 +0000

ch/ korean/ch

By: RYOKU

RYOKU — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:54:26 +0000

1. chinese
2. korean
3. japanese

real sure about it.

By: Kokoro

Kokoro — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:17:13 +0000

1. Chinese: More angular face, im wondering if she’s slightly smiling or just has a very dry upper lip.
2. Korean: Rounded face, a common feature in both Japanese and Korean, but she’s very pale, which I see alot in Koreans, though it could be a Japanese woman from Hokkaido as well.
3. Japanese: Eyes and the nose. Smaller head -> usually smaller body -> a feature of most Japanese women.

Either way, it would still be hard to tell the difference, especially if they did plastic surgery, we would never know… @_@