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Quiz: Chinese or Not Chinese?

猜一猜：是不是中国女孩？

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Chinese are part of the big family of Asian people. Therefore they share many similar external features with other Asian nations – especially those living in bordering countries, like Korea, Japan, Vietnam and so on. It is understandable since our ancestors may have mixed with other nationalities.

However, there are also some distinctive features, and one can with high probability tell if the person is Chinese, Thai or Korean just looking at him/her.

In the following quiz you are invited to try and guess whether the girl on each of 20 pictures is Chinese or not Chinese.

All of the girls are celebrities in their respective countries and maybe this quiz will be very easy for Chinese visitors just because they will recognize the girls themselves. For foreigners who are not familiar with Asian popular culture – it will be the matter of cognitive deduction.

Good luck!
Chinese girl Crystal Tao

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  • Nicole Yu

    I knew most of the girls, they are all the movies stars or singers.maybe you can put some girls’s pics which you meet in life next time to see if people can find out they are Chinese or not.

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Nicole, you are right – all of the girls depicted here are famous.
    I will consider to set up a more challenging quiz in the future – however at the moment I did not want to put usual girls into the public spotlight.

    However, you might find it curious, that the current rate of correct answers is just a little bit above 50%. For the test with only 2 possible answers the result is not better than the one achieved by picking up totally random answers.

    That is really funny :-)

  • http://jmliz.wordpress.com Liz

    Hi! You should tell us what those distinctive features are that enable you to tell with accuracy between the different Asian nationalities. I can tell in real life quite often – but this quiz was hard because everyone was airbrushed and I’m not really immersed in Asian pop culture (or American pop culture, for that matter ;).

    Fun Blog! :)
    Liz

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    To be honest I am not sure I could do better if the girls wouldn’t be famous. This quiz is for fun only.

  • http://rhiannonldelabruere.blogspot.com rhiannon

    hmmm, lots of plastic surgery here….
    but I still did ok.
    Still alot of these girls had their nose heightens and eyes opened I am sure!

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Plastic surgery? Mmm…that would be an interesting topic for one of the articles. :smile:

  • http://laowaichris.blogspot.com/ Chris

    That was much harder than I thought it would be!! I agree with rhiannon that a lot of these girls have had plastic surgery making them look quite different. Number 18 almost looks western (maybe mixed?). Fun quiz ;-)

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    I get 80%. Nice quiz.

  • korean_guy

    where is the quiz?

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Sorry… It just disappears sometimes, so I have to bring it back from the site where I created it.
    Should be OK now (until the next disappearance :sad: ).

  • korean_guy

    15 out of 20, 75%. But some I already knew hahaha.

  • ahkiwi

    Only 50%, I fail :sad:

    Nice quiz though :grin:

  • Okie Rob

    Good Quiz … I scored 50% …. very hard to determine … For
    I was only going by face features … for I have never
    seen pictures of these ladies before of had knowledge of them.

  • Justin Liu

    a paltry 60% and I’m usually pretty good at guessing where people are from because there are loads of chinese, japanese, koreans, filipinos, viet, etc in my university and people can get annoyed when you guess wrong about their ethnicity.

  • Justin Liu

    @liz

    I may get bashed for this but some of the things I’ve noticed is more delicate features, lighter skin , pointier chin and narrower eyes for japanese people. broader features , darker and a rounder nose and rounder eyes for filipinos, smaller stature and darker for SE asians (ie Vietnamese). Flat faces for northern chinese with less prominent brow and higher cheek bones, slantier eyes (and generally taller and broader build). More pronounced brow and sunken eyes for southern chinese (brow more like white people), smaller face, broader flatter nose, generally shorter and light build.

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Hi Justin,

    Thanks for your comments. I would never be able to give such detailed description.
    I think, that among the group of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino and Vietnamese – the easiest to distinguish from external apearance is Filipino.

  • http://www.thechinesedumpling.blogspot.com Martin

    Do I get a prize for 11 out of 20? 55% isn’t bad…is it?

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    In the quiz with two possible answers, 55% is …mmm…errr… not excellent :oops:
    However, one friend of mine guessed only 20%

  • http://www.iheartbeijing.com/blog Elyse

    I think the quiz would have been more telling if you showed pictures of everyday women on the street from the different regions of China… I don’t think their genetic differences are as obvious as the social differences.

    • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

      True… most people say that I had to make this quiz with the pictures of everyday girls. I just wonder if it would make it more difficult or easy?

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  • http://christopherneo.blogspot.com Chris

    I got 95%, not bad isn’t it? haha… I’ve got question 18 wrong, can anyone enlighten me on who that it?

    • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

      Jiang Wenli

  • haha no

    damn
    10 correct answers of 20
    your result is 50% in 127
    ” Not so bad ”

    oh well, i guess if i stay in the middle of china in some little village, i wont make those mistakes again :-)

  • angel sy

    #9 and #20 are filipino of chinese descent.

  • h4uw1n3

    cool quiz… hahahaha

    but, few girls was unexpectly… lol
    80% good enough,there’re a few chinese and hk stars that i already know…. :))

    LOL

  • HongBaoNaLai

    I put all Chinese and got 50%!

    You should put different Chinese tribes that don’t look so Han in there too. Watch people fail as they tick not Chinese in those boxes.

  • http://twitter.com/rozyuri Yuri K

    OMG, I got 85%. Don’t even know what just happened! Wow, I’m “Fantastic”..

    To be fair though, I recognized Chinese actresses who were active in the 80s and 90s and a few Korean actresses in the quiz.