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It's mostly facial structure and forehead shape. Ethiopians tend to have high, domed foreheads, which was a very unique trait to Homo sapiens sapien. Eritreans look very similar to Ethiopians in skin color and hair texture with the exception of the domed forehead. While many tend to have a high forehead, it oftentimes is less domed. This is not always the case, because like anything else its just a polygenic phenotype that mutates and combines over time. I've also noticed a tendency for Ethiopians to have looser curls.

To be honest, off the top of my head I couldn't think of the other traits that I would recognize. It's sort of a "I'll know them when I see them" deal. 

And what I've been saying throughout this whole thread is that race is not truly classifiable because there are not enough similarities between individuals from different  ethnic groups. 

In the beauty pageant circuit, the African American girls are the best dancers and the Asian girls always win the spelling bees. The caucasians light the best fires though, thereby usually winning. :D 

Setting fires in people's hearts,  I'm sure. 

by Paranoidilution

Those skulls are a hoax. Information on the excavation and anthropologists is not made available and therefore the results are extremely questionable. 

The truth on how the 3 buildings collapsed on 911 is also questionable, but mainstream science lies about the obvious. For other scientists to speak against that will cost them their careers.

For the best of us, it's not required to follow the 6 o clock news, or whatever mainstream has to say. It's already known in the new age that mainstream has been deceptive. DNA testing is being done on them now.

There should be reports on the sites, numbers assigned to the finds, and the only articles that cover this baloney come from conspiracy theorist sources. 

Today, the number 1 news feed is Twitter. It's only normal for those who would get excited about something like this, to be the first.

Also to have a closed mind and filled with conclusion and doubt for something you have no clear answer to, makes you a pawn of you field, not a pioneer. In other words, it will be real when you are told it is.

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by Paranoidilution

You've clearly read none of my previous posts on the myth of race. 

I did read it. But it still occurs to me that the attributes resident to colour are in fact real. Black people don't burn in the sun all that easily, white people do. I also mention other attributes that are common with their own uniqueness.

Hair type, and color as well as skin color and eye color are all polygenic traits. There is wide variation within "asian" populations.  understandably for some people who are not exposed to other ethnic groups , it can be hard to tell. 

Simply put, white people have the most polygenic traits. This is by no means a comment in support of white supremacy.

There's a running joke about all "asians" and all "black people" looking the same to white people. This is true for some white people who only spend time around white people. You must be one of those. 

I never said all Asians and black people look the same. And you shouldn't present assumptions about what I am, and who I hangout with, cause you might end up looking silly.

For someone like me who lives in a culturally diverse area, I can tell you the difference between an Ethiopian and an Eritrean, I can tell you the difference between Korean, Chinese and Japanese people. The differences may seem subtle to you, but to many people they are not. Your assumption of similarity is a form of racism born of ignorance and being sheltered and has no place in any scientific fields. 

- White people have the most colourful variety of hair.

- White people have the most variety of colourful eyes.

- Every other race does not have the same variety of colour that is common.

- Black people, and East Asian's by default have black coloured hair. This by no means suggests they look the same.

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Though this is not a contest. I'm willing to assume it is I, who is the most diverse and has the most experience with diverse culture.

by Paranoidilution

It's mostly facial structure and forehead shape. Ethiopians tend to have high, domed foreheads, which was a very unique trait to Homo sapiens sapien. Eritreans look very similar to Ethiopians in skin color and hair texture with the exception of the domed forehead. While many tend to have a high forehead, it oftentimes is less domed. This is not always the case, because like anything else its just a polygenic phenotype that mutates and combines over time. I've also noticed a tendency for Ethiopians to have looser curls.

To be honest, off the top of my head I couldn't think of the other traits that I would recognize. It's sort of a "I'll know them when I see them" deal. 

That's an interesting reply, because the two groups I mentioned (northern Ethiopian Tigray and southern Eritrean Tigrinya) are members of the same group separated by artificial national borders.

In the context of this conversation, especially given your earlier comments about the nonexistence of race, it seems exceptionally ignorant for an anthropologist to refer to African ethnicities by post-colonial national borders rather than ethnic and cultural tribal associations.

For all that you can tell the difference between an "Ethiopian and an Eritrean," I'd imagine you'd find more similarities between two members of the Tigray-Tigrinya people who have different passports than you would between an Ethiopian Tigray and an Ethiopian Somali.

I've worked with many people who identify as Ethiopian and many who identify as Eritrean and they would disagree with you. I can't really offer you any more evidence than my word since it had been my real life experience talking and interacting with people,  not something I learned out of a book. To what extent have you interacted with these tribes to come to this conclusion? 

Ethiopians whom I've met are very proud of their national heritage and distinguish themselves as different from Eritreans. I've met Eritreans who have been offended by people who mistake them as Ethiopian. There are also physical differences which are obvious  to me that have no doubt been influenced over generations by sexual selection post founders effect. 

I don't know what else I could tell you short of introducing you to a long line of former Co workers and classmates,  which is obviously not possible. 

Also please note the second to last sentance of my first patagraph;

"This is not always the case, because like anything else its just a polygenic phenotype that mutates and combines over time."

To claim that a single polygenic trait like this remains 100% consistant through any ethnic group is overly broad, and is not what I'm claiming. 

I'm well aware that national pride does exist. I was also pointing out that if you're discussing physical differences between two African groups, national borders aren't the most efficient grouping system.

Most African nations are made up of multiple tribal/ethnic groups, some of which have distinct features, so reading a physical generalization based on nationality rather than ethnicity makes as much sense as saying you can tell the physical difference between an American and a Canadian.

I'm guessing you've most likely met a lot of Ethiopians from the dominant ethnic groups rather than the minority Tigray or Somali, so you have a generalized picture of "Ethiopians" as a whole, but again, in the context of this discussion, focusing on national borders just because some people have a sense of national pride is as "scientific" as it would be to focus on racial groups just because some people have a sense of racial pride.

Out of curiosity, did "I've met a lot of people who said this so I don't need to read it in a book" work well for you when you were still in school?

Wow this conversation got deep.

reading a physical generalization based on nationality rather than ethnicity makes as much sense as saying you can tell the physical difference between an American and a Canadian.

Actually, generally speaking, you can tell the difference… the average Canadian is about 2-3 stones lighter than the average yank. 

http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-states/