If you had to guess: What country/countries do you guess for this young man’s heritage?
Asked another way: If you encountered him in a cosmopolitan city: In what language would you greet him?
German? Russian? Spanish? Chechnan? Chinese? French?
Why?
This foto appears in a National Geographic article: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/changing-faces/funderburg-text
Note that a CU Boulder brain imaging study found that people’s brains formed racial perceptions in under 0.1 sec, before (faster than) they recognized the gender of people in fotos
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Read on, MacDuff.
English, USA, second generation.
I thought Peruvian.