[aangjie]

Err... I'm not so sure about this. I understand that as you grow up in one community, your brain networks/neurons specialize for distinguishing differences in facial features in that community more than in others. While I haven't seen enough chinese to argue, they have lesser facial feature variations, I can imagine how the algorithm defines facial features would be biased more towards the caucasian/European faces. So from the POV of the "facial feature detection" algorithm, European faces will have more variation in facial features than Chinese faces.

Context: I grew up in southern india and spent most of my early years there, but travelled out to the northern India in the mid twenties. I can now say, I can see facial feature variations in the NE India folks(these folks have facial similarity with chinese) I see around now (I currently live in the south)

[GTP]

>To someone who grew up in an Asian monoculture, without exposure to media with European faces, all Europeans would look alike too.

I'm instead sure about this because of a funny incident that happened to my mother just a few years ago. She was standing near a pizzeria when a chinese waitress stepped out and said (translating from italian, sorry if I make some mistakes):

waitress: "Take away?" my mother: "What?" waitress: "Take away?" my mother:"No, I haven't ordered anything" waitress: "You Italians! You look all alike!"

EDIT: formatting