Clarification/Follow-up by aime-cinema on 06/16/06 1:02 am:
So the reason why Asian people look alike is because they have a more limited gene pool than Europeans? Because even when I see pictures of Beijing the people are homogeneous in their facial features, and even when I go to China town in San Francisco the people are pretty homogeneous in their appearance. (Same hair texture, nose shape, mouth shape, physique, etc.

Clarification/Follow-up by aime-cinema on 06/16/06 4:04 pm:
So the reason why they look so homogeneous is because they haven't intermarried with other Asian cultures? So if Chinese people and Japanese people started intermarrying I would see more differences in their appearance? How come when I scan their faces I can't see differences? When most Asian people scan European faces can they see differences? In 50 years do you think Japan will have more diversity and interracial marriages?

Clarification/Follow-up by aime-cinema on 06/16/06 4:28 pm:
And what did you mean that in small communities they have close relationships with one another and have a limited gene pool? How do Asian people tell themselves apart? Being ultra-observant?

Clarification/Follow-up by aime-cinema on 06/16/06 10:39 pm:
So for generations and generations all the kids from Family A will marry all the kids from Family B? And also this is off topic but I am aware that China only has one time zone. How does it work with only one time zone when it spans 5,000 miles? When it is 8:00 AM in Beijing and everyone is going to work, it would be really 4:00 AM in western China. Does that mean people in western China go to work before the sun rises? Thanks.