The difference between races?

Question

How can you tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person?

Answer 1

what gives people their pigmentation? Melanin, sometimes referred to as a chemical, is formed as part of the process of metabolizing an amino acid called tyrosine. In the skin, melanin is formed by cells called melanocytes. The Chinese question? i dunno

Answer 2

You are obviously confusing race, ethnicity, and nationality.

Race- There is only ONE race of humans still living on this planet: Homo sapien sapien.  The other races that once lived here, such as Homo sapien neanderthalensis and Homo habilus, are all extinct now.

Ethnicity- Defined in a variety of ways ranging from physical variations with the species (or race, as you put it) to things as subjective as culture, which of course is an umbrella including language, values, customs, etc.

Nationality- A sense of identity garnered from ones nation of birth.

So if you want to compare Japanese and Chinese:  They are the same race (as are the rest of us), yet their ethnicity and nationality are clearly distinct.

Answer 3

there certain features that distinguish them, its hard to describe but once you're around a lot of them you can tell.

Answer 4

chinese are uglier.  haha

Answer 5

The difference between races is the color of our skin.

No, I cannot tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person.

Answer 6

As far as there being a difference between "races" this question is irrelevant.  Whether the person is from China, Japan, Iceland, or Austria....we are all members of the HUMAN race.  If you have a tan dog who weighs 300 pounds, and a grey dog who weighs 3 pounds, is either any less of a dog?  Neither is less, regardless of what they look like.

Answer 7

There are specific genes that run in nationalities.

A genecists could tell the difference. And in it all, we all came from the same place.

Answer 8

Japanese have usually whiter complexion whereas the Chinese people have a yellower hue. The Chinese have flatter faces than the Japanese. Both tend to be short, but the Chinese are slightly shorter in height than Japanese people.

Answer 9

the guy on top of me has a good point. But anyways, chinese people seem to have a longer face and japanese people don't. It's really hard to explain, but you really have to go to china and then japan to see what I'm talking about

Answer 10

It has been demonstrated by genetic testing that the average difference between races are less than the differences between neighbours who are nominally of the same "race".  This has been expressed as the difference between one Scotsman and another are greater than the average difference between Scotsmen and Japanese.  

I can tell the difference between the sound of Japanese and the sound of Cantonese but I can't guess the nationality of the speakers until they speak.

    

As far as the Japanese and Chinese are concerned, the difference is more like that between nationalities and would not be much greater than the differences between Hollanders and Germans.

Answer 11

Personally, I really don't care whether the person in front of me is Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, or Plutoese.  I think underneath our skin, we are all basically the same, and racial differences are only an exterior demarcation which makes no essential difference.  I have both Japanese and Chinese people among my circle of friends, and the bottom line for me is simply that they are wonderful people.