Originally Posted by squeeeb

its not judging. judging is "short people are stupid and can't do math, blondes are dumb."

it's profiling, and that's not a pejorative. is it wrong to say i can tell someone is chinese because they have high cheekbones and generally rounder faces, not all the time but in general? how am i judging them?

germans have high foreheads. does that mean all of them? no, it does not. but they do, it's a physical trait, and when you are travelling around the world and see a guy with a high forehead, it's a damn good chance he is german. in kenya i learned that a certain tribe (i forgot who) have thin noses, that's how kenyans tell them apart, i learned this from a kenyan. they told me which tribe has nappy hair, which has a thin nose, etc.

wanna get even more esoteric? ask anyone who's been in the military if they can tell an officer from an enlisted in civilian clothes. 99% can, because of how they dress, how they act.

army guys can tell who is in the special forces because of how he dresses and acts.

it's not judging, it's just recognizing, consciously or unconsciously, different groups of people. a simple, interesting thing, something fun to talk about.

damn.