There's a good rebuttal to the critique in the comments of that story:
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There is no ethnic cleansing. Some site on the net stole these from me, by not sourcing them to me. I created all of these and more (ones for men) right here: [pmsol3.wordpress.com]
My account on FaceResearch.org is Rasfarengi. I have e-mailed the editor about this already. The "South Africa" composite on here is labeled wrong, because who ever took it from my site did not label it correctly. It is actually the Argentina composite. The South African composite I did only uses Khoi-San and South Bantu populations found in South Africa, not whites or colourds.
I am African American, so there is no racism here. I didn't make specific composites of many African nationalities because it is just too difficult. My process requires front facing photos with limited smiles. I have to look through nearly 2,000 photos online to find good pictures of Italians. Let alone a Fin. In Africa it is just too hard outside of Nigerians and South Africa, because there are less pictures on the net, because those people don't have good internet access or access to digital cameras the way East Asians and Europeans do.
It is even hard to find pictures of Latin Americans of specific nationalities outside the larger nations.
I did one of "West Africans" specifically to see if I can tell how much Euro and Native American admixture changed the African American population, whose ancestors mostly originated from the areas between Senegal and Angola (with a very very small % from Mozambique) I tried to use the same % that came to America from specific regions, like the Blight of Biafa, during the slave trade. I think you can see a difference. I did do a separate South African and Ethiopian one. Doing specific tribes is too difficult.
- the average Golden Age male actor looks similar to his modern-day counterpart, maybe a bit older going by the receding hairline
- the Golden Age actress looks somewhat different from the modern - rounder eyes, somehow? Was that the preferred look for actresses of the era? (they doesn't look like averages, though...)
- the average porn actress is blonder than the celeb
Relatedly, it seems quite natural for average faces to be attractive - all the blemishes and asymmetries and extremes get evened out, leaving a very neutral look that most people don't have. Extremes are usually not attractive, after all.
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There is no ethnic cleansing. Some site on the net stole these from me, by not sourcing them to me. I created all of these and more (ones for men) right here: [pmsol3.wordpress.com]
My account on FaceResearch.org is Rasfarengi. I have e-mailed the editor about this already. The "South Africa" composite on here is labeled wrong, because who ever took it from my site did not label it correctly. It is actually the Argentina composite. The South African composite I did only uses Khoi-San and South Bantu populations found in South Africa, not whites or colourds.
I am African American, so there is no racism here. I didn't make specific composites of many African nationalities because it is just too difficult. My process requires front facing photos with limited smiles. I have to look through nearly 2,000 photos online to find good pictures of Italians. Let alone a Fin. In Africa it is just too hard outside of Nigerians and South Africa, because there are less pictures on the net, because those people don't have good internet access or access to digital cameras the way East Asians and Europeans do.
It is even hard to find pictures of Latin Americans of specific nationalities outside the larger nations.
I did one of "West Africans" specifically to see if I can tell how much Euro and Native American admixture changed the African American population, whose ancestors mostly originated from the areas between Senegal and Angola (with a very very small % from Mozambique) I tried to use the same % that came to America from specific regions, like the Blight of Biafa, during the slave trade. I think you can see a difference. I did do a separate South African and Ethiopian one. Doing specific tribes is too difficult.