Can you guys actually just look at a white person and tell where they're from?

Can you guys actually just look at a white person and tell where they're from?

If they aren't muttmix of various european ethnicities, yeah

If they have different hair colors then maybe.
I struggle to tell white women apart, specifically.

Objectively impossible

Broadly. I could probably tell that your average Russian is somewhere broadly from Eastern Europe, and Brits look very distinctive so you can usually tell by looks that someone's British, but I don't think I could tell by phenotype alone whether someone is from Northern France or Germany.

There is this Ethnoguessr game someone made and I played it for a bit and yeah especially with Europeans I could actually tell fairly accurately where the faces were from.

asians can't even comprehend that "arr rook same" is about the individuals within countries

About as well as I can tell different African ethnicities apart. I can tell when people are East African, north, west African or from the southern region but that’s where it ends. Same way I can tell who’s Eastern European, western, Nordic or med, but that’s where it ends for me. They have to look pretty stereotypical too. Same thing with Asians.

and Brits look very distinctive

What did he mean by this

kind of? i can tell the difference between a west and east european, and a north and south european. but i cant tell the difference between say, a swede and a german, or a portugese and a greek

portugese and a greek

c'mon

Irish have a very distinct appearance. They don't look the same as other Europeans at all.

Pretty much. If you're really good, you can tell what multiple ethnicities an American is. It gets easier when you know where they/their family is from because certain admixtures are common depending on region or locale.

Irish Americans mistake me as one of them. I'm predominately the next closest thing: Scottish.

Irish and scottish are very close genetically. They used to be one kingdom with a single shared language

How exactly? Based on facial features, eye colour, hair colour or what?

White people have this habit where group conversations end up being about what your ethnic background is, so you start to get a feel for it, unless someone is in part or whole something exotic. You see patterns depending on age and location. Like my dad is fully British in ancestry, which isn't so common anymore, but it is for Boomers from the rural South (English and Scots-Irish). His mother was 100% English, which is basically non-existent in America now.

Like the average white Millennial in the South is going to be a mixture of English, Scottish or Scots-Irish, and German. In S. Louisiana this changes to French, German, and Irish, with the possibility of Italian in and around New Orleans and the possibility of distant Spanish in the rural areas.

I don't live in an area with a lot of people of Scottish or Scots-Irish descent, so people assume I am of Irish admixture because that's more common here.

momento americano

i live near german town so i just assume they are all that unless some anglo or a viking shows up

You guys had a lot of Scottish immigration in Canada, so if one of their descendants travelled to somewhere with heavy Irish immigration, the same thing would happen to them.

nobody pretends that english, welsh and irish people look distinct from each other, what is this cope

Sometimes. For example I live in a part of Chicago with lots of Polacks and I've gotten pretty good at identifying them on sight versus 'real' white people. It's a mix of facial features, clothes, and body language.

I can tell the difference between Japs and Chinks pretty easily but Koreans always trip me up.

i can tell regions apart, less so countries
germanics all look kind of similar, anglos look like the jews of europe, greeks turks and italians are pretty distinct, could recognize spaniards/portugese, can make out the french to some extent, can make out the scandinavians, northern slavs and finns are easy as hell, southern slavs like from the balkans region and ukraine look like the sort of mutts of europe to me where every man has the same looking haircut with black hair and a short beard, and the czechs just sort of a really basic brunette look to them that for whatever reason just screams "white person" to me more than any other race

People have repeatedly told me I look Polish (or Slavic/Russian/Ukrainian), including Anon Babble, though I'm not at all (genetically). Eventually this became part of the reason why I chose to learn Polish, associate with Poles, work in Poland and make it part of my identity. Might as well be what I look like

You cannot be serious rn

Can you guys actually just look at a white person and tell where they're from?

Yes, and I've even learned Asians.
Might come in handy one day.

i can pinpoint the general area but not the exact country

100% am serious.
I post on /polska/ every day BTW, they know me there and maybe someone will vouch for this.

Scandinavians are pretty easy to identify, I don't know why

yes but whites are the most arr-rook-same race in the world and it's not even close.

this is especially true of northwest europe, it's just this homogenized brown-beige meadow

even the hair and eye colors are exaggerated, most "blue eyes" really have drab grey, "blonde" is usually sand brown, etc. apart from scandinavia and russia the color morphs don't look very jarring

I can usually tell when a Swede is on video or photo as long as it's a proper Swede and not one of the darkies. Like picrel. No doubt there.

I can also recognize Sweden in like 2 nanoseconds of footage most of the time. Like I see a bush and half a curb and my brain just goes SWEDEN YEP and I am usually right.