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This whole "looking French" criticism of John Kerry by Republicans is bugging me. How does one "look" French? It's not like looking Chinese; French people look like a lot of other Europeans. I couldn't accurately tell a French person from an English or German person by looks alone if you paid me.

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[ciardhapagan.livejournal.com]

Oh it's typical old "Nixionite" dirty tricks, associate the oppossing candidate with a country or culture that "ultrapatriotic" (read xenophobic) people have been taught to despise in recent times.

Kerry doesn't look French, he looks English- with that long face with a sharp pointed jaw and thin nose. (Ironic, because he's of Irish ancestry). There are facial characteristics that are more common in one European country than another, but yes you could easily find someone in any European country who looked "English", "French", etc...

Same thing goes for Asia. You can find a Chinese person that looks like a person from any other Asian country, etc... but there is a distinct set of facial features that is considered "Chinese", "Korean", "Japanese", etc... by people in Asia, just like people in Europe (and to a degree amonsgt whites in the US) are aware of distinct facial characteristic that are considered "English", "Irish", "French", etc...

And by the way, David Boreanaz doesn't look "Irish". ;) Doesn't look "English" or "Welsh" or "Scottish" either, now James Marsters, on the other hand looks "English". David Boreanaz looks kind of "French" ;) Although I believe the name is northeastern Italian in origin. Marsters is a English name.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just don't enough French and English people to see facially distinguishing differences. Distinguishing names? Definitely.