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I think it's not only about looks, but as much in how people behave, what clothes they wear, hairstyles and so on.
I've worked at Helsinki Airport where I encountered literally hundreds if not thousands of foreigners every day, and though I learnt to tell in many cases, I was often as wrong as right. Some nationalities, like Chinese, Japanese and Russians are easy to tell, but not if you're German for example.
Now there may be some truth in this - but you simply cannot tell where somebody is from just from how they look (naked).
Now there may be some truth in this - but you simply cannot tell where somebody is from just from how they look (naked).
No, not necessarily, but a combination of these factors may.
If a person has a leather jacket, trashy jeans or Adidas track pants, a distinct look, flashy jewels and hair combed forward, while his wife has a lot of fur, high heels on wintery streets and a ton of makeup -> they're Russian.
Generally not, but I can difference a Polish and a Greek usually, until I find one of them who is "out of the typical look" (more and more usually every time in my experience) and I am confused again.
In Europe there are a lot of people who doesn't look like any country or specific area.
yes, to some extent, if we're talking about just an individual.
yes, to a large extent, if we're talking about groups.
It's very hard to pinpoint the exact country, but you can usually tell if someone is from scandinavia, or the Uk, or eastern european, etc....
No you cannot, nobody seems to have any clue where I am from when I've travelled.......until I open my mouth. Britons are a VERY diverse looking people. The only thing that might give somebody's nationality away could be the way they dress, or act perhaps? But certainly NOT from the way they look!
I think it's not only about looks, but as much in how people behave, what clothes they wear, hairstyles and so on.
I've worked at Helsinki Airport where I encountered literally hundreds if not thousands of foreigners every day, and though I learnt to tell in many cases, I was often as wrong as right. Some nationalities, like Chinese, Japanese and Russians are easy to tell, but not if you're German for example.
That's it, clothes, haistyles..how they walk, how they hung together. Easiest are, as you said, Asians, Russians..and Italians, you can spot an Italian by the way they move. French also, as they have a very specific gestuality. Germans, unless they travel in group, abteilungs. English, lack of sun, awful clothing..and yes, hairstyles...Americans, screeching, shrilling accent, don't know how to walk in crowded areas.
But "ethnicity", not really, more by "Carrefour", "Decathon", "Liddle", etc.
I am working at a District Court in a not so awesome district of Vienna right now, so naturally we have to deal with lots of immigrants. Frankly, I can't tell the difference in most cases except when they are stereotypically dressed, wear weird makeup or when they are Roma.
Been in Germany for a few months already now, so much different from back home in Canada where there it is a mix of various European backgrounds.
Can easily tell if someone is non-german, like from Poland or elsewhere. I have guessed correctly numerous times. "kak dela" and then they reply.
From looks or by dress or behavior?
There seemed to be a bit of a German look and dress style, but many were dressed rather casually not that different from Americans, Spanish were quite a bit more different. I thought many looked similar to Americans. When my mom did study abroad in Germany, her accent wasn't that strong so was mistaken for Dutch.
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