Chez Chesler

The Sunday Mail - NEWS - EXCLUSIVE: 'ALL CHINESE PEOPLE CAN LOOK THE SAME' I was going to comment that if Sheriff (apparently a magistrate in Scotland) Margaret Gimblett had something more politically correct than "All Look Same" something akin to "Inexorably, the studies are conclusive that human perception is inexact and that human memory is fallible; where cross racial-identification is involved, this is especially so" she would have been cheered, not jeered, but that's what she gets for being outspoken. But that is what she said, "There can be a difficulty - even with experienced observers - in distinguishing people of different cultures or race." Unfortunately she added in the middle "Without wanting to be derogatory in any way, sometimes it is said that all black people look the same at first glance and the same can be said that all Chinese people can look the same to a native Scot" before concluding "It's only when you have time to look that you begin to see the differences." But it made for a good headline.