and if the thread title is too confusing , I don't mean from facial features
I mean if you can tell if someone is Haitian , ADOS, Nigerian and any other member of the diaspora without talking to them , and just from a glance?
I know there's a meme here based on hairlines , does that actually work in real life? and do you sometimes get confused with a different nationality?
Easy with south and east africans. For example , south africans got a unique face shape, big forehead too (think of doja) ,and some are lightskin. Sudanese and ugandans can be extremely dark skinned, with unque bone structure. Ethipians have historically bad, pulled back hair lines, and have more or less the same face. Somalis have equaly bad hairlines, and they got a wavy hair texture going on. Malagasay, mauritians, etc have a mixed look to them cause of asian admixture
West africsns are bit more difficult to differentiate. Fba/afos , caribeans, etc are also difficult to tell apart due to random admixture both among african groups and among natives, whites, etc. . Cameroonians and senegalese tend to be on the darker end of the spectrum facially too. Haitians are kinda differentiatable cause of less admixture, and ive honestly never met a lightskinned haitian.
Algerians hot a very unique mixed look due to berber/arab admixture.
Blasians are indistiguishable to me, but all you can really tell is that they are Asian. Couldnt tell whether it was japan, korea, or vietnam. But i think filipino black people have a unique face that is different from the standard blasian
Finally, the hairline thing can be deceptive, no matter what tariq says. There are loads of fba/ados who grew up white adjacent or are extremely nerdy that dont keep a traditional african american hairline. Think of childish gambino or even the engineer dude on google's front page ; Jerry Lawson.
