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October 12, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Perez Christina
Why did you separate Indian and South Indian?
July 19, 2011 at 5:36 AM
MJ
cause the two are different racial groups – aryans and dravidians
January 9, 2013 at 6:02 PM
suzy
well the two averages kind of looked the same..i wouldn’t be able to distinguish that they were from different areas.
April 24, 2013 at 8:13 PM
camilero
why are you talking about races ? there’s only one human race ! the last other human race had disappered hudereds of 1000 years ago, that was neandherthalian.
July 10, 2013 at 4:20 AM
ninjacaity
camilero – The “human race” is actually a species. The three main races of humans are caucasoid, mongoloid, and negroid.
October 14, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Arjun
aryans never existed. that has been proven to be a bogus theory. i’m indian and and across the majority of the subcontinent (includes pak, bangla & sri lanka) the variation is so small that we are all basically one.
October 14, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Arjun
oh and i love the way people get their panties in a twist about racial origins whenever you bring up the superficial aspects of it – namely facial features and also sometimes height/girth… retards.
June 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM
Nathan
Probably the Indian and South Indian male composite aren’t too far apart because the composite Indian male includes South and North Indian males in the composite. But frankly the range of looks among Indians is really huge.
November 3, 2014 at 10:28 PM
zeebra
But then the average North Indian does not look like the average Bollywood actor??!!
November 19, 2015 at 9:46 PM
afghanrefugee
Look at a Kashmiri and then a Tamil, you will see the difference in looks
November 19, 2015 at 10:04 PM
afghanrefugee
Also, its proven that Jat Sikhs are some of the tallest people on the planet. Every 7 ft + person in India is from Haryana and Himachel Pradesh.
The Khali- 7 ft 3 400 pounds
Sim Bhullar- 7 ft 5
Satnam Singh- 7 ft 1
December 17, 2016 at 12:49 AM
Harish
Non sense. Get an education. Aryans andbdravidians are a myth. They are the same race, adjusted for pigmentation.
Jesus!!
April 29, 2017 at 1:42 PM
A-Man
I would consider all these ppl with exceptions of uzbeks, isrealis and lebanese the same race as by phenotype.
December 15, 2015 at 2:13 AM
Vin Tagerocker
And why only by darkening his mustache?
October 12, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Dragon Horse
I work with a Tamil woman and she asked me to, she wanted to see a difference. Eventually I will do a Punjabi as well. India is big, so it is kind of obvious that the average Tamil would stand out in Punjab, and vice versa. Similar to China, but even more so. There is a big North/South differential.
May 25, 2010 at 4:09 AM
A real person from kerala
I think the Average Bollywood actors are the closest to a Punjabi-Kashmiri “northwest indian” type. Since most Bollywood actors and actresses do have Punjabi origins, making this Bollywood composite the closest to that of an average Punjabi face. Well thats if you also minus the fact that these are celebrities chosen on looks, and not just everyday people chosen of the streets.
December 16, 2013 at 9:58 PM
Tamil
Well a lot of Bollywood actresses (Vijantymala, Hema Malini, Sridevi) are Tamil and others South Indian (Aishwaraya Rai), so they would not necessarily reflect average Punjabi-Kashmiri, but more Brahmin- South Indian.
June 23, 2015 at 2:52 AM
sam
Average punjabi men and women are dark brown in colour and are very hairy. In bolywood John Abraham, Asin, vidya balan,arya menon, Rajeev pillai are from kerala, Aishwarya rai deepika padukone, shamatha anchan and many from karnataka. So most good looking of the bolywood actors and actresse are pure south Indians and not dark and hairy punjabis.
November 19, 2015 at 10:08 PM
afghanrefugee
Idiot, John Abraham isn’t south Indian and Aishwariya Rai is from the bunt caste who are all naturally more light skin. Also 70% of Bollywood is Punjabi.
February 7, 2017 at 10:16 PM
Chandra Yadav
Abraham father malayalee(Dravidian) and his mother persian…he is not related to Punjabi.Aishwarya Rai is Tulu by ethnic and she is Dravidian…Bunt community is belong to Dravidian,,,idiot
December 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM
Daniel
@Dragon Horse –
I have a question. How many subjects (faces) were used to make an average face?
March 4, 2010 at 11:48 PM
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April 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Aamir Siddiqui
south indians too differ much.among south indian states, kerala people are generally fair compared to others.the facial features are also sharp.was a surprise when i visited .
January 9, 2013 at 6:05 PM
suzy
that’s b/c kerala is on the western side of india. indians get more caucasian looking as you go west and even more so as you go north
March 23, 2014 at 2:29 PM
Arun
Nope.. I think its because Muslims and Christians in Kerala have some middle-eastern ancestry.
October 26, 2017 at 12:46 PM
Nah Mate, many misconceptions in India
You are not wrong. It’s a meme that says Northerners are fairer. It couldn’t be far from the truth. Many parts in North & Central India are filled with dark skinned Dravidian looking people. Although I do’t know about Kerala, many Konkanis look basically like Caucasians while Konkan is in Southern part.
May 25, 2010 at 3:39 AM
A real person from kerala
I think People should stop over-exaggerating any small differences found among fellow south indians. Yes there variations within kerala itself, but the people are still on average closer to a mahogany-brown skin tone. you can almost compare kerala people somewhat with srilankan sinhalese, and the “Average South Indian Female” face(not sharp features) does look like that of many typical kerala woman.
plus south indians like aishwarya rai, shilpa shetty and deepika padukone aren’t from kerala-state about rather kannada-state(Mangalore) to the north. Their is nothing unique about kerala.
June 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Remya Bombaywallah
are u a person from other state trying to demerit kerala ?
September 7, 2012 at 8:37 AM
gayathri
which keralite would say nothing is unique about kerala
January 15, 2015 at 8:31 AM
Shah
Kerala people do not look like Sinhalese. Sinhalese resemble Bengalis the closest. Even their language is Indo-Aryan. Check out the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Sinhalese
May 13, 2016 at 4:28 PM
lathen
SInhalese people are mixed with tamils because when the arrived from odisha and parts of bengal they mixed with the tamils and vedhas therefor they look somewhat like keralites
July 16, 2010 at 7:25 AM
neha
Very good blog all posts are good
December 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM
an
Uzbeks and Mongols (from your different) have similar head shapes and general features which is altered by Mongoloid and Europid admixture within. I’d like to see Kazakh average, which I guess would look similar to Uzbek and Mongol average
February 8, 2011 at 2:32 PM
Roman
It’s problematic to paint average Israeli male, since the ashkenaz and the sephard populations are not too mixed, to lesser extent, but still similar to races in the US.
April 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Krzystoff
I can’t help wondering why most Israeli closely resemble Austrian, Serbian, Russian, German but share zero similarities with any other middle eastern people. Even several thousand years of living in a different climate and occasionally mixing with the local population (which was taboo in most cultures until the late 20th century), one wouldn’t expect to find much difference between the tribes across the middle east at all.
April 7, 2024 at 8:26 AM
GrassMudHorse
This is because you’re not knowledgeable about Israel. Most Jews in Israel are Sephardi and Mizrahi, not Ashkenazi. it is true Ashkenazi have dominated politics and are wealthier (as they founded Israel and had a lot of political and economic capital coming from the wealth region of Europe) but the culture of Israel is not really Ashkenazi, it is far more Mizrahi influenced just due to population and the fact there are also Israeli Arabs, and they are literally in the Middle East. Many Israelis like Arabic music, even if they don’t speak Arabic or have a great relationship with their neighbors, that is because of Mizrahi. Also, when Israel rescued some hostages early on in the Gazan war they told them to call out in Hebrew. You know why? Because they can’t tell who is Palestinian and who is an Israeli Jew but just looking at them and they don’t want to shoot the wrong people. Images of Israelis Jews:https://www.instagram.com/that_semite/?hl=enhttps://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-racism-mizrahis-palestinians/https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2016/04/yemen-jews-israel-houthi-homeland.htmlhttps://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2023/1026/As-perilous-ground-war-looms-in-Gaza-Israelis-brace-for-sacrificeThis is the majority of Israeli Jews. The reality is most Jews in Israeli are not Pure ancient Israelites, they mixed with Europeans, Persians, Arabs, etc. However Palestinian genetic tests show high amount of Egyptian and Arabian DNA, and Sub-Sahara African – not pure Levantine either. The people who are the purest and most represented of original population of the Levantine are Druze, Samaritan (off shoot of original Jews) and Palestinian Christians. They seem to have rarely mixed with anyone. These groups stayed the most isolated. So Maybe then we should give all the land to them and kick out all the “Arabized Palestinians” and Jews? Is that more fair??? Is that your logic? The purest deserve to be there? At this point these arguments are childish and unhelpful to anything.
February 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM
lou
what about pakistan? i suppose to most people we would fall into the ‘indian’ category (to some extent this is true with regards to punjabis/sindhis who aren’t much different to north indians). but there is an element of laziness to this view i think. there are many different groups of people mainly in the north – in azad kashmir, gilgit- baltistan and the north-west who tend to be overlooked. maybe its nitpicking but if you can accept the diferences between north and south indians why not do a composite pakistani face? or whatever.
March 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM
Abdullah
Actually Pakistanis are made up by different ethnic groups more than racial so if the averages were to be made Sindhis would resemble South Indian composites, Punjabis would resemble the typical Indian composites because they’re Northern Indians, Pashtuns would resemble the Afghan composites because technically they are Afghans and the ones from Balochistan would resemble Iranian composites because they’re Iranians. Now indeed most Pakistanis are Punjabis but that still doesn’t mean to create composites from Pakistan because well then the moderator will have to create a Sindhi, Pashtun and Baloch composites as well which would not make sense. Which is why they put South Indian, Northern Indian, Afghan and Iranian composites so they don’t have to pave more ways to create a Pakistani look which again is made up by ethnic groups and not racial. Actually most Afghans like me are Turko Mongol so the Afghan composites look accurate.
Sindhis= South Indian
Punjabis= North Indian
Pashtuns= Afghan
Balochs= Iranian
August 1, 2014 at 2:32 AM
RB
Your breakdown of Pakistan’s ethnic groups is idiotic. Sindhis do not resemble South Indians. All of Pakistan’s indigenous people are North Indian, with various admixture depending on region.
February 2, 2016 at 7:10 PM
Ahmed Gul Inqilabi
U r right basically pashtuns or afghans or pathans is totally one tribe which is divided by Durand line and if u think abt boloch their language pronounciation and face shapes is very near to Iranis and sindhis language words and face shape is near to south indians and punjabi is wellknown by everyone.One tribe sikhs which is in Pashtuns areas and also they are talking in pashto and in india they r talking in punjabi
July 27, 2017 at 6:43 PM
idiot849
Sindhis make up 30% of bollywood they’re Aryan people
November 19, 2015 at 10:01 PM
afghanrefugee
No, Jat Sikhs have Indo Scythian looks and the Kashmiris are different looking also.
February 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM
LG
I’d love to see the average/composite Bangladeshi face. We’re part of South Asia and have dark skin but because we border Burma, there is a Mongoloid element in the features, with the average Bengali not being as sharp featured as say a Pakistani or North Indian.
February 20, 2011 at 4:28 AM
Sacha
I’d be interested in seeing Lebanese!
March 3, 2011 at 11:34 PM
Marwa
I’d be interested in seeing a composite of Egyptian faces! Thanks!
March 4, 2011 at 3:10 AM
Dragon Horse
Marwa…maybe you can convince more Middle Eastern women to actually take pictures and put them on line like men do. Good luck with that? LOL
January 22, 2013 at 10:50 PM
Mohammed Khan
Where is the Turkish male btw there is an average Pakistani male photo on my previous comment…..you can try up loading that picture on the South Asian section.
March 4, 2011 at 3:13 AM
Zayna
a few questions and comments:what was the average age or age range of people for the photos used to create the composites – I’m just curious – all the photos made good looking examples of their representative nationalities – was perceived attractiveness used to choose photos for the composite, or did the averaging of photos just cause that?, Also would be nice to see North-American First Nations cultures – eastern, plains and coastal peoples are known to have unique features so it would be nice to see this separately (and the average Canadian face too – we look a little different on average than south of 49 😉
April 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Dragon Horse
Added Turkish female, Turkish male coming…
May 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Neha
Can you please do it for Indian states the metro cities
Delhi
Calcutta
Mumbai
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Chennai
Considering all these places have separate languages
also India is six times the size of france or 7 times the size of UK
May 29, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Neha
I could help with the photographs from ordinary people in Delhi
May 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Neha
Great Work!!!!!! Loved it
June 8, 2011 at 6:34 AM
Sumi
The average Bollywood actor accurately represents Pakistanis/Kashmiris/Punjabis. In India, light skin is deemed better looking and is disproportionately represented in the media. It’s typical of the North, not only because of colder climate, but because there are more Persian/Turkish genes mixed with Indo-Aryan genes up there. Pakistanis look more “middle eastern” and are on average lighter skinned than most Indians because of this, and same thing with Punjabis/Kashmiris.
I made a male average of some Pakistanis and Punjabis, especially with some faces considered “representative” of the regions. I used pictures I had on my computer, so the average is a lot more attractive than the average guy, but it looks roughly like most of my cousins and uncles (I am punjabi), so its accurate enough.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/img868485.jpg/
June 9, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Raskal
The Pakistani composite looks good but not accurate enough for a Punjabi more like Sindhis and Pashtuns. An average Punjabi looks like the composite from the Bollywood faces.
June 25, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Ali Abbas
@Sumi Pakistan is an artificial country there are no specific looks there. It was once Aryan and Dravidian mixed until they were mixed by the invading Caucasians which is why we may have double dose of Caucasian ancestry. Pashtuns are descended from Israel but they’re not Jews anymore……. Sindhis are descended from Arabia…….. Balochs are descended from Greece and Punjabis also including Northwest India are descended from the Mughals who were from Turkey. Therefore that picture is more for a Turkish man not the locals of Pakistan looool learn your history before you blabber we Punjabis are mostly Turks R1a is the DNA of both Punjabis and Turks we’re darker because of the climate and because of some Dravidic admixture which has given us black hair and brown eyes. Aryan DNA is H and Dravidian DNA is L and most parts of India are half Dravidian and half Aryan. South India is mostly Dravidian and I don’t agree with those morphs the Israeli man is too blonde compared to the female counterpart. Muhajirs migrated from Punjab India and Kashmiris are ethnically Punjabis. We’re not the natives of Pakistan our original motherland is Turkey and the females of Punjab pretty much resemble the Turkish woman’s face.
June 23, 2015 at 3:08 AM
kick
This is a joke of the century. Here in Canada there are millions of punjabis. Majority of them are very dark in colour. Turkish is completely different from punjabis. Kashmris are littile bit closer to middle eastern. But punjabis —- ohhhh no very dark skinned. Sorry to say that. Looks like any other Indian. Majority of them have Australoid features. Eg Daleir mehendhi.
August 1, 2016 at 2:50 PM
Husayn
Lol the semitic dna found in Southern India was thought to have come from the Neolithic Greeks , but I think not it came from the Indo aryan Lydians who are the Minoans who were first Greek civilization , but were not European
The Lydians are the Minoans and Etruscans . Dravidians are Canaanite people who are original Mediterranean and Sumerian people . They mixed with semitic Akkadians and Amorites (imliq) , the other Canaanites were same as pure native Americans the Akkadian and amorites are the Arameans who are the Nabateans who are the Chaldeans who mixed with arami tribes ad and thamud and also they had the element of arphaxad because people of arphaxad were dwell in west during time of ad and thamud . (Not referring to joktan)
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/india_parthian_colony1.php
http://iranian.com/History/2003/May/Pallava/p.html
June 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Ali Abbas
Also ignore what these Indians have to say they just want us to deny that we are mixed with other Caucasian groups because they raped so many Hindu women of the product which we are known today….. Heck they also deny the Aryan invasion and say that it’s a myth created by Mac Muller nonsense. How did Indians become half Caucasians duh….. I’m Punjabi and I’m proud of my Turkish ancestry but I’m also proud of my Dravidian ancestry as well I just feel ashamed of having Aryan blood and I’m glad my Turk forefathers arrived and taught these ugly and pasty yellow haired Aryans of what it’s like to rape the indigenous women of Ancient India and enslave them because they were dark skinned. Indo-Aryans were cowards and the most racist pricks ever. Turk and Indus pride
June 23, 2015 at 2:56 AM
sam
Average punjabi men and women are dark brown in colour and are very hairy. In bolywood John Abraham, Asin, vidya balan,arya menon, Rajeev pillai are from kerala, Aishwarya rai deepika padukone, shamatha anchan and many from karnataka. So most good looking of the bolywood actors and actresse are pure south Indians and not dark and hairy punjabis.
August 10, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Jay
You are a clown ! Punjabis are legendary throughout India for their tall fair looks hence why so many Bollywood stars are of Punjabi origin .. Kareena Karisma Hrithik etc
June 23, 2015 at 3:13 AM
kick
This is a joke of the century. Here in Canada there are millions of punjabis. Majority of them are very dark in colour. Turkish is completely different from punjabis. Kashmris are littile bit closer to middle eastern. But punjabis —- ohhhh no very dark skinned. Sorry to say that. Looks like any other Indian.
August 10, 2015 at 4:51 PM
Jay
You sound very bitter ! Punjabis are not dark And if there are ‘millions’ of them in Canada they are a massive asset to Canada in every field .
September 15, 2016 at 2:02 PM
Afghanrefugee
Kashmiris are Indo Aryan dards, Punjabis are mixed though some places like attock a Punjabi can resemble a Kashmiri. The only difference is Jatt Sikhs who have Scythian look to them
July 24, 2011 at 2:21 PM
Mohini
Hey loved that you posted the bollywood faces! It just shows the variation in Indian faces. Awesome post!
October 2, 2011 at 4:14 AM
joseph
why did’nt you post an average Kurdish and Sindhi (it is a seperate identity inside the south asian region) type..LoL.
March 11, 2014 at 4:15 PM
Abdullah
Sindhis are South Indian…… Kurd is an ethnic group not a race they will look Iranian also Kurds are found in Northern Iraq and Iran
August 1, 2014 at 2:34 AM
RB
Sindhis are NOT South Indian. How did you come up with this nonsense?
October 14, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Velu
How did you do this??? Can u post or mail some sample photos (merged and not merged) and the procedure to find the average of them???
November 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM
person
heyyyyy……………… can you show indonesian faces???? lol
December 20, 2011 at 3:46 AM
chinzoshde
wht bout mongolia 😀
January 25, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Yuckademus
I hate the look of the Bollywood faces as they not at all representative of the vast majority of India. They only represent a look that is common among upper caste/class north west Indians. It is poison to the minds of india’s children that only one beauty ideal is promoted.
May 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM
rbug
…so then, you hate and resent nw Indian types on sight?
January 28, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Aditya
South indian looks very much like a person from south india
February 7, 2012 at 9:51 PM
selena
The Egyptian composite is hogwash. Egypt is in Africa after all, and except for the Northern cities, most Egyptians look quite African. The original people of Egypt and of North Africa were African descent. Your composites are meaningless and aren’t scientific at all. Selecting pictures off the Internet is no objective science. Even if you try to include variety there is still bias as to which kinds of people are posted online. Egyptians that immigrate to the US and those on the web are from Northern cities and disproportionately of Euro mixture. Unlike most Egyptians. If you were to travel THROUGHOUT Egypt and NOT just the Northern CITIES of Cairo, etc, the people would look drastically different from that composite.
Your composites are more Caucasianized on average than the real people of these countries. And go figure. Since most countries copy white Western beauty, and since most of the privileged classes in third world nations have Euro admixture and/or lighter skin, the pictures on the Web will reflect that. Online pictures DO NOT give you an average of what a nation looks like. You will be greatly deceived in many cases if you think so.
And what’s with the female composites having lighter skin than the male composites? DO NOT tell me that it’s natural or that women are lighter skinned on average than their men. That will DEEPLY insult my intelligence. Women of each race and nation have the shame shades as the males. I know. I have eyes. So please tell me, why did you do that? Why do most of these composites seem to have lighter skin (except for East Asia) than what most people have of that nationality? Did you make the skin transparent so that the facial features will blend through so that we can “see” the average?
February 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Dragon Horse
Actually men do have darker skin than woman within the same ethnic group, human skin color is sexually dimorphic (women are the ‘fair sex’). This is mostly due to differing hormone levels.
Human skin-color sexual dimorphism: A test of the sexual selection hypothesis. Reply to Frost (2007) (p NA)
Lorena Madrigal, William Kelly
Human skin-color sexual dimorphism: A test of the sexual selection hypothesis (p NA)
Peter Frost
Women have lighter skin than men do across a wide range of populations, even on the unexposed skin of the upper inner arm, possibly because of sexual selection by men for lighter-skinned women. If this hypothesis is true, human skin color should become more sexually dimorphic with increasing distance from the equator, since sexual selection for lighter skin in women would be less constrained by natural selection for darker skin in both sexes. Yet when Madrigal and Kelly (2006) analyzed skin reflectance data from 53 different samples, they found that the most dimorphic human populations were actually those of medium skin color at medium latitudes.
Next time get familiar with the research before commenting.
I have also been to Egypt, I was there a month before the revolution, my friend used to work for the American Embassy. It is true that upper Egyptians are darker, and gradually fade to what most Western people will consider “black”, basically Nubian, but where are most Egyptians located? Lower Egypt. What is the population and density? Upper Egypt is not very populated and probably has not been since Greek or Roman times. If you do a composite based on the “average” what is it going to look like if it is really “the average”?
If you write something else stupid on my blog I will delete it. The purpose of the blog is to discuss intelligently, learn, or teach. You are doing none of the above.
February 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
selena
Next time, read before replying. I already said before:
“DO NOT tell me that it’s natural or that women are lighter skinned on average than their men. That will DEEPLY insult my intelligence. Women of each race and nation have the shame shades as the males. I know. I have eyes.”
You clearly believe in pseudo science. Your argument about Egypt’s populace is debatable. It is your reply and this blog that are stupid. But don’t worry, I won’t visit this ridiculous blog again.
January 9, 2013 at 6:12 PM
suzy
i thought they looked like a pretty accurate description of the countries…um, they probably look more caucasianized because arabs/persians are considered to be caucasian?
March 9, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Shmul
Amazing work. would be interesting to see the difference in features between ashkenazi jews and sephardic jews.
July 1, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Mike J
not amazing by any stretch of the imagination. sephardim and ashkenazi jews have intermarried for generations. you should know that, shmul. and aren’t sephardic jews supposed to be different than mizrahi jews? and certainly chinese jews and yemeni jews don’t look the same as mountain jews of the caucasus? this blog is stupid and worthless. composite? composite of stereotypical race trash.
May 5, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Kaya
Oh god, I needed this SO much….!!
I’m trying to get used to drawing faces outside my race, so this is a real helper!
(Kinda sad that there aren’t enough female samples here, like the Saudi once….)
July 1, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Mike J
you got to be kidding. this comment is not hateful, but it is completely prejudicial. So racist in the most fundamental way! you can’t draw a picture of a ‘race.’ what do you even mean by that word? Some phony ‘average’ racial composite means nothing. Black and Arab people in the US, for example, look like everything. In that light, these composites are worthless and meaningless. There is no standard racial look. People see what they are looking for. This is like something out of racist anthropology books of the early 1900s, that claimed to rank and describe all the races of the world. you are better than this, i hope.
October 7, 2012 at 3:00 AM
Catherine
I think you misunderstood Kaya’s comment. Drawing these averages as practice can be really helpful because they are so fuzzy. Unlike a picture of a single person’s face, in these averages the fine details are blurred out so you are left with more simple shapes to imitate.
Of course these pictures shouldn’t be treated like the rule for how people of a particular race or country look. Instead they can be useful to practice drawing different eye, nose, mouth and face shapes…then down the road you can combine them to make more diverse looking people when you draw. Otherwise all your faces end up looking too much alike and your drawings of people seem more dull and life-less.
May 13, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Cet
Could you please post a picture with Turkish male, too?
June 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Mondiale
Thanks, this was interesting. The Israeli/Lebanese/Saudi/Persian/Iraqi/Turkish faces look very related, not a coincidence in my opinion. My family is Jewish, all of us Ashkenazi, although my Dad and brother are darker and more “spehardic” looking than my Mom and I, to the extent that my father has had people spontaneously speaking to him in Farsi (Persian, Iranian language) 🙂 However, my mother and I are often asked if we are French/Spanish/Italian/Portuguese, so I guess it isn’t all about skin colour, also about facial features!
I would also be interested in seeing Ashkenazi vs Sephardic please! It seems that the man looks more Ashkenazi, the woman more Sephardic, but obviously the differences are not large enough to be classified as seperate ethnicities, probably do to a small admixture from local populations. My opinions/observations are based on living in Israel and abroad.
Now, seeing as all those ethnicities are evidently related, why not get along!
June 5, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Mario
I fell in love with the average Lebanesse woman.
July 1, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Mike J
All the ‘average’ Middle Eastern men look like the ‘average’ Sicilian and Serbian guys in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. By the way, the ‘average’ Israeli man looks nothing like the average Israeli. He looks like an accountant from Long Island.
January 19, 2017 at 3:05 AM
Rahab
I laughed out loud at the last bit. But thanks for clarifying that it isn’t just me! While I’ve never been to Israel myself, it immediately hit me that the Israeli man set off my Italian-dar more than my Jew-dar–I almost worried that they’d been conquered by Rome all over again! (None of the other composites are dinging my Italian-dar, though. We must be seeing different aspects of them.)
That probably all sounds silly and/or racist, but I do have a reasonable (albeit painful and difficult to discuss) explanation for these feelings. The short version is: Italian-American sex ring; trauma during formative years; anti-Semitic leaders who didn’t do business with Jews. I didn’t notice until much later in life that I seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to specific ethnicities, especially since it’s not the first thing people disclose about themselves. But I started to get curious about my own uncanny valley reaction to a certain subset of completely normal-looking human beings, and upon googling the most famous ones, I realized they were all descended from the same part of Europe as the relatives who had hurt me the most. After that, I gradually caught on to a mirror image of that reaction: Some strangers and celebrities (of every age, gender, and color) looked strikingly angelic for reasons I couldn’t define, until I started looking up their heritage. Almost all of them were Jewish, or else from somewhere too obscure to have crossed paths with our ring. Basically, they were all the people of the world who had never scarred me. I guess it’s kind of sad that a human brain can rewire itself this way, knowing completely well that there are wonderful and terrible people in every population.
Anyway, after figuring out that quirk, it’s become almost a challenge to my mental functioning when I see a picture that doesn’t activate the relevant ‘-dar. The Rothschilds and 95% of Bible-related artwork are examples so obvious it hardly bothers me, but in the case of ordinary people like the ones contributing to this project, I feel guilty and paranoid for questioning their identities. Could there really be that many people with more Roman than Hebrew ancestry living in Israel? Probably not, and it’s none of my business if there are. Nevertheless, it makes me feel better to hear from an eyewitness that they have seen otherwise in real life.
July 23, 2012 at 9:07 PM
Brian
The last picture average Turkish woman had a very pretty face.
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August 6, 2012 at 7:34 PM
man
I really loved this work 🙂 I would like to see average Kazakh,Turkmen, faces too,I think they will look like average uzbek male/female. and I liked “average Iranians” too and it is interesting for me that whose pics u used to make average Iranian male/female? and will u post pics like that from other middle eastern countries like Azerbaijan,Armenia? thanx!
August 17, 2012 at 1:55 AM
tina
very good thing, i am very interested in that , me also i have read many books , how the people mixed ,,, i can help you anything , very easy to know from where any person , very interested thing…
August 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM
Eye2Eye
Longest & shortest lifespan of women:
Longest- Japan 86 years Shortest- Afghanistan 45 years
I’m sorry I don’t have a quotable source. Think it may have been NationalGeographic.com.
September 2, 2012 at 5:05 PM
person
plz do a one of pakistan too 😀 (and do a one of punjabi and pushtoon pakistani people differently bcozz punjabi and pushtoon ppl do look alot different from each other).
October 21, 2012 at 12:23 AM
Mohammed Khan
They do have an average Pakistani male photo just browse up to Sumi’s link
March 11, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Abdullah
You’re already looking at South Indian, Northern Indian, Iranian and Afghan that border Pakistan.
November 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM
maharu
its really nice. bt north keralites especially muslims are slightly more cute dan other south indians(ppls from mangalore to northern part of calicut district in kerala)
November 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM
urfather
average?? THEY ARE ALL GOOD LOOKING!! HOW ARE GOOD LOOKS AVERAGE??
November 16, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Eye2Eye
Average must mean that literally here- thru out the all the worlds’ faces —they become mathematically even & proportioned. Literally taking the photographic averages of many people–some ugly people alongside truly good looking faces. I’m not sure these would “pop” out as beautiful in reality. I bet more like crowd melts. Any of these faces would be excellent for serial killers—I mean not just here on the middle eastern page, but any of the faces on website here, any nation’s facial average.
November 14, 2012 at 7:25 AM
3rd Millenium Men
Average Israeli is the best… with the average Turk close behind!!
December 10, 2012 at 8:47 PM
lil
Here is an Average Pakistani Man I think he’s pretty good looking. I’m guessing why Pakistani image is not posted up because pmsol3 travels to those countries and I would assume since Pakistan is an unsafe country because of bad government he might’ve not taken those pictures either that or those Bollywood pictures are meant for Pakistanis since that’s what Pakistanis look like. I still haven’t found an image of Average Pakistani Woman but if I can’t find it then I’ll make one but at least there’s an Average Pakistani Man just like how there’s an Average Turkish Woman but no Average Turkish Man.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/img868485.jpg/
June 9, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Raskal
No the reason why there is no Pakistani composite on here because a person from Pakistan or a Pakistani did not take their picture so it can be up loaded on here. The composite of this man looks a lot like a Sindhi, Pashtun or Baloch. Most Pakistanis are Punjabis (Including Muhajirs and Kashmiris) and they are just lighter version of Indian. Maybe you can try taking your picture and see if it can be up loaded it on Pmsol3……. Just be sure you don’t smile
February 28, 2014 at 5:11 AM
haha
That’s an average Iranian Dumbass!
January 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Ali Gillani
Well im a pakistani and from all these composites, I most closley resemble the iranian mixed israeli face, but the guy who showed the composite of a pakistani face i felt like i was his twin
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April 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM
turk
why is there turkish woman but no turkish man???
April 22, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Raina
How about a Bangladeshi one? That’s a big population.
June 9, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Raskal
There is no such thing as you can look Bangladeshi the average person from Bangladesh looks like a South Indian. So technically you’re looking at a composite already
October 20, 2014 at 7:03 AM
imzy
That’s the dumbest piece of crap I’ve ever heard. There’s no such thing as an average Indian look then. Plus South India isn’t a country, Bangladesh is.
Bangladesh is the 8th most populated country in the world, so it would be good to see one as it would represent a big chunk of the world.
Also, they don’t look like South Indians, maybe similar, like the level of difference between iraqi and saudi, but then why do they have practically every arab country if they look so similar?
April 22, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Korra
Could you please do Indonesian faces? Considering, it has the fourth largest population, I think it should be on here. Otherwise, I think this is really cool 🙂
April 24, 2013 at 11:20 AM
wael
No North african, tunisian??
June 9, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Raskal
That might be on the African section……. North Africans and Gulf Arabs look the same so technically they have an Egyptian and a Saudi composite. Try taking your picture from a webcam and look straight
April 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Klara
Humans are beautiful!!
April 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Mickey
Honestly, as already said by others: the average Israeli man doesn’t look Israeli (the woman rather does).
And yes: average is beautiful. All of the non-existing girls above look great and all of the non-existing guys look like rivals. Great work.
April 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM
Mark
I’d Israeli looks about right, the majority of Israelis have European ancestry and the average face reflects that quite well. I’m surprised you had trouble finding pictures of women for certain countries but managed to find pictures of Afghan and Iranian women!
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May 10, 2013 at 7:02 AM
Pascal
Very interesting site. To my great surprise, I find the average Indian and South Indian women much more beautiful than the average Bollywood actress.
May 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM
bh
the ash is strong in that actress
May 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM
George Pasquale Oliveto
Beautiful images– although Kerala can’t really be called pure Indian in my humble opinion. I met people from Kerala and their history are are mixture of races from Iran, ancient babylon, jewish, european, dravidian, etc. Dravida of course ( meaning people from the mediterean sea, italians, greeks, etc)
June 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM
dev
Awesom job buddy. South indian girl looks almost like a typical keralite. Keralites features are black eye lid(not brown), thick eye brow, curly or wavy strong black hair(due to coconut oil), wheatish skin complexion( different from fair), big lips, pure white teeth. Mens have thick facial hair(especially above the upper lips), body hair too. Bengal and Goa are some what similar to Kerala. Keralites are almost unique. Sex appeal is lesser due to dark eye lid but hair is awesome.
July 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM
fatima
Sorry this looks very deceitful….there’s no way the average Bollywood actors look better than the averages afghans…not sure what pictures of afghans you used to get that picture
November 19, 2015 at 9:52 PM
afghanrefugee
Idiot tard, Hrithik Roshan was rated as the sexiest man in Asia, shove it Taliban monkey sh/t.
February 27, 2022 at 11:37 AM
pakis-are-self-hating-Indians
Take it easy Panjeet. BTW, I’ve seen you post all kinds of crap about “Jat” and just wanted you to know that we, Afghans, refer to Gypsies in Afghanistan as “jat”.
August 1, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Umair Malik
Hey where is the Pakistani composite can somebody try uploading a Pakistani face?
August 3, 2013 at 5:59 PM
realthug
Wow so many comments on here that are bragging where’s Afghan composites, Pakistani composites or Turkish male. Create your own thread so y’all can have your own averages it’s just that simple. @Fatima most Afghans are half Caucasoid and Mongoloid so the Afghans look pretty much average compared to the Bollywood. @Umair Pakistanis have similar looks to the Bollywood composites you can consider them as your average if not take your picture and create your own separate thread so they can see. I might be able to create averages for the whole world pretty soon. So anyone that’s demanding Syrian, Moroccan, Turkish male, Algerian, Libyan, Sri Lankan or Pakistani composites will be seen on my thread just take pictures and upload it. No need to be shy
February 27, 2022 at 11:39 AM
pakis-are-self-hating-indians
Let me guess, you’re an India troll? LOL!
August 4, 2013 at 5:27 AM
nep
Why aren’t nepalese mentioned,nepal is so diverse that all the faces shown above can be found here
August 4, 2013 at 5:32 AM
nep
yea didnt read the previous comment,sorry..it feels bad to see that nepal is neglected everywhere,even if it’s in south asia most people assume all nepalese have mongoloid features or are mixtures
August 28, 2013 at 4:43 PM
vetri
South Indian women picture strongly portrays millions of medium-dark Tamil women. These kind of eyes are very typical among Tamil women.
Another common average Indian women picture reflects facial features of all South-Indians, Bengali and Hindi-belt states.
Average Saudi and Afghan faces are also pretty much common in North India.
It is a shame that average Bollywood female/male face barely represents 2% of entire Indian population.
September 9, 2013 at 4:03 PM
realthug
Many of these averages are not accurate such as the Israeli averages do not match up very well. The male average has a blonde hair and the female average brunette. And the man does not look like a typical Israeli. On average most Israelis have jet black hair so I have to disagree with Israeli averages.
And the Saudi and Indian male look like twin brothers notice the phenotype. So I have to disagree with those averages as well.
The Lebanese male looks like a North African he can fit well as a Moroccan. You can see a bit of Black on him.
Most Afghans are not Mongoloid they’re Indo European. So I need to redo these averages. No these are not my photos but they need to be redone.
I’ve done some averages on Tunisian, Moroccan, Armenian, Saudi female, and Armenian. I’m currently working on Portuguese, Dutch, Estonian, Indonesian, Dominican, Mexican, Cuban, Colombian. I haven’t up loaded them yet but I am pretty soon. I still have to complete and redo as many averages as possible before I have them uploaded.
September 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM
realthug
Sorry I put Armenia twice I meant Scandanavian
April 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM
Marven
Lebanese are Mediterraneans and not middle eastern! we mostly look like Italians and Spanish more than Mideastern pple. Most of Maronites in lebanon not look like arabs.
October 2, 2013 at 2:01 PM
ethnocentric
It would be interesting to see averages along ethnic groups, and then compare them to the nationalities you’ve listed (ethnicity isn’t the same as nationality). For example, Pashtuns living in Western parts of Pakistan share the same ethnicity as the largest ethnicity in Afghanistan, and by many are actually considered Afghan, not Pakistani. Likewise, Baloches in Pakistan, along with Pashtuns are all Aryan/Iranian (this doesn’t mean they are Iranian as in the Iranian state…which in turn is comprised of its own ethnicities, many of which are actually not Iranian) and Punjabis in Pakistan are part of the same ethnic group as their counterparts in India.
One of the other comments referenced the artificiality of some states, such as Pakistan and so doing an average in that way can be misleading. But I think it’s useful to have both nationality averages and then compare them to ethnic averages. If we had those averages, Sindhis and Punjabis would resemble Indians, whereas Pashtuns living in Western Pakistan would resemble their Afghan cousins.
There’s a problem with the Israeli male average and the Pakistani male average in that link…perhaps you used a small number of subjects for these two as neither resemble the male averages in these populations?
October 4, 2013 at 5:11 AM
BennyTelAviv
The Israeli male actually looks right. Bare in mind that the majority of the Israeli population was born in Europe / North America / South Africa or originated from there, since the “aliyot” started at 1882. So the Israeli average male has “brighter” skin than the average middle eastern male and looks more like a slightly tanned polish guy than an Iraqi male…
June 10, 2016 at 7:20 AM
palestinian me
You r correct on what u wrote.. Except Israeli male or female does not fit into the study of the region.. There is no such thing because Israelis r Jews who came from all over the world so u can’t really scientifically classify them like that.. There are Caucasians, middle eastern and African Jews as well as others who migrated to Palestine and occupied it. So it would be a more accurate measure to describe the naturally evolved species involved which is the average Palestinian male or female. But of course u wont see that as the media is controlled and would not allow that because they r trying to erase Palestine.
October 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Kashmir
“and by many are actually considered Afghan, not Pakistani. ”
Pashtuns are Pakistani and they consider themselves Pakistani, many of our Prime Ministers,Presidents,Dictators and Army chiefs were Pashtuns, they make up 30% of our armed forces, and around 30% of population.
Pakistan has more Pashtuns than Afghanistan, it has the most Pashtuns in the world, we also have the most Baluchs in the world.
“artificiality of some states, such as Pakistan”, there are only 2 natural states in the world(Japan and Hungary) so calling Pakistan “artificial” would be ignorant, diverse would be a better word to describe Pakistan.
April 30, 2014 at 5:28 PM
Muhammad Abdullah Khan
Pashtuns are not native to Afghanistan they are native to Iran the same thing for the Baloch people which means they are Iranian. The Hazaras are the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan after the Pashtuns and technically the Hazaras that live in Iran and Pakistan are both Afghan. I think Sindhis and Punjabis in Pakistan are Indian as of North Indian while Pashtun people and Baloch are Iranian. Only the Hazaras are Afghans and the Baltis are Sino Tibetan but they are rare. Afghanistan is made up by so many ethnicities Tajiks, Uzbeks, Iranian, Turkmens, Russians, Pakistanis, Arabs, Indians, Turks, etc, etc. But the original Afghans are a mixture of Turkish and Mongolian if we exclude the Pashtuns who are again Iranian and make up the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
May 1, 2016 at 5:05 PM
luke
Jatts and Sikhs are different anyway because they’re Scythian so they resemble Scythians not Indians or Iranians
November 19, 2015 at 9:56 PM
afghanrefugee
The original Aryan language is Sanskrit, the Swastika is an Indian symbol, the Jat Sikhs are an Indo Scythian race from tradition, clothing, height and built and Afghans are just jewish descent phaggots hiding in caves, 75% of Jat Sikhs are in the military, while 75% of you are child molestors.
May 1, 2016 at 5:06 PM
luke
Sikhs and Jatts are Scythian yeah and Kashmiris are fair too these 3 people are different unlike Indians and all these South Asians and Jatts are not Punjabi
October 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Kashmir
Why isn’t there a Pakistan facial average?Pakistan is the 6th most populous country in the world, so it isn’t fair to ignore us.
If the creators of this site assume that the Indian facial average or Afghan average is the Pakistani facial average, that is a misconception.
Pakistan might be really diverse, but it’s just as diverse as Afghanistan, and India is WAY more diverse than Pakistan, so if they can have facial averages why can’t Pakistanis?
I think the creators of this blog are really asinine for ignoring Pakistan.
November 2, 2013 at 6:54 PM
realthug
That’s because there are no specific looks in Pakistan…….. Sindhis are Indian, Punjabis are Turkish, Balochs are Iranian and Pashtuns are Afghan. So it wouldn’t make sense to put an average of a nationality that is multicultural just like the US. You can check out my link I’ve created Middle Eastern averages I just didn’t add any females btw.
April 30, 2014 at 5:34 PM
Muhammad Abdullah Khan
Because it is made by two nationalities Indians if they are Sindhis/Punjabis they’re gonna look like the Indian composites as for Northern Indians/Bollywood and Iranians if they are Pashtuns/Balochis they’re gonna look like the Iranian composites.
October 11, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Heba
Where is the average for egyptian woman ?
October 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Fino Zain
This is so cool, I wonder if you also have an average Indonesian female and male as I am an Indonesian…..or probably it is a hard work noticing that it is almost impossible for Indonesian to look alike another (noticing that we were mixed from the very beginning)? Thank you. Good job.
September 22, 2016 at 5:37 PM
historian332
Indonesians are austronesians or Malays, in general. papuans are melanesian people.
October 30, 2013 at 7:48 PM
sudha
I’m tamil and i do not look like her,anyway i think that in any country there is people of all skin colors and facial characteristics…we cant generalize,many indian mens does not look like tis man…i think is not very fair to choose 1 person in the second most populous country in the world and say that every indian look like that and even from others places too
September 22, 2016 at 5:39 PM
historian332
if you are a light skinned tamilian and not black, then you are a mixed race person product of a north indian mating with a tamilian centuries ago, or a migrant from north or central india who got tamilized and assimilated. Real tamils are black and have negroid african features. As their roots are from Kenya, Africa. They can deny it, but that is the truth. Appearances don’t lie.
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February 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM
huma
not satisfied wid indian drawing
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April 10, 2014 at 2:43 AM
Roxanne
rubbish about afghans. The majority of afghans aren’t mongoloid their Pashtun or Herati. Hazaras aren’t Pashtun or Herati for sure they’re Mongolian get it through your thick scalp. A typical afghan would have light or olive skin, brown hair (usually dark brown) and green or brown eyes, sharp features like high cheekbones and defined jawlines and strong chins. Afghans look Spanish, Greeks, italians, some Eastern Europeans and non Mongol Turks. We are indo European
May 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM
mariam.eljamil@gmail.com
I can’t agree with lebanese woman and Egyptian man. Great work though. What about Egyptian and Saudi woman?
May 12, 2014 at 5:12 PM
Baruch Johnson
Fascinating. As at least one other reader has pointed out, “average” (however digitally arrived at here) certainly turns out to be surprisingly good looking. There must be another lesson in all this.
July 10, 2014 at 11:10 PM
noella
This is very cool. As a west coast south indian, I am impressed with how accurate the south indian morph is. They could pass of as anyone from four of the five south indian states. The exception would be Kerala. Keralites have fairly distinctive features.
I think the female bollywood face is a bit off.Too much makeup to figure out the face..
What did you use as your source photographs!
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July 20, 2014 at 6:25 PM
raevenlywrites
Reblogged this on Raevenly Writes and commented:
Very random, but I love googling “X facial features” to see if I recognize any of my characters.
August 22, 2014 at 5:15 AM
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September 25, 2014 at 4:16 AM
mona
afghan man is right but afghan women don’t like the one above, they are darker,olive toned, with almond eyes
October 19, 2014 at 6:51 AM
Arya Afshin Perjia Mahini
Where did you get the pictures of the Iranian male from? That looks like the average low iq blue collar worker. Nothing to what I see on a daily basis???
September 22, 2016 at 5:36 PM
historian332
fair skinned iranians are products of turk and central asians and armenian blood, real iranians are browner.
December 17, 2014 at 12:55 PM
Mo Jo
Someone early in this comment thread stated that there were three main “Races” of Humans . I beg to differ. Humans like Dogs , Cats, Mice, etc., etc., are all visibly different due to Geological location and Breeding.
Caucasoid Peoples are Typically from cooler areas of the planet and do not get as much direct sunlight .
Mongoloid Peoples are from the mid range areas globally and get more direct sunlight and have developed skin that gives them more protection from the sun by having higher Pigmentation
Negroid Peoples are from the equatorial areas and are exposed to the most direct sunlight and have evolved the darkest skin due to the highest level of pigmentation which affords them the most protection from the Sun.
Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid are subspecies of the larger group Homo Sapiens . They are all Homo Sapiens . There is only one race of Humans on the Planet at this time and that is Homo Sapiens.
Like for instance A Poodle isn’t a different “Race” than an Irish Wolf hound. They are all Canines . Dogs if you will. The difference is in the area they are from Geologically and how they were bred.
Caucasoids usually mate with Caucasoids,
Mongoloids usually mate with Mongoloids,
Negroids usually mate with Negroids.
Yes there are exceptions, but by far there are more pairings in the manner I described than there are pairings with a different color of Homo Sapiens.
If it were possible to have every person Mate with a person of different skin color for several generations there would no longer be differences in skin color.
Everyone would be Monochromatic.
With a few exceptions which would eventually “Breed” out.
January 12, 2015 at 7:26 AM
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February 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM
enterprise
Hello, Cool blog. I work as a data analyst and find the idea of taking the average of photographs interesting, since I am accustomed to taking the average of numbers, like sales. A few things I’d like to mention is in order to take the average face in a country, you must have a photograph for all faces in that country. If not, then you are taking a sample average. Also it looks like your samples are all roughly skewed to the age range of 20-35. With this idea one might ask what is the average face of all humans, assuming you had a photograph of every living human. One could then start breaking the questions down like, the average of all female faces, or the average female ages 20-40 in India. Also, why must this be broken down by country, this could be extended to say occupation, and one could ask for the average face of all male computer programmers ages 20-60, or the average face of all female pharmacists in Germany. Also, if one can take the average face, one could start asking questions like the average hand or foot. I’m not sure this is an exact science since terms like race, ethnicity, or even national origin (as borders change) are relative, however just the idea of taking the average of photographs is interesting and new to me, also just looking at the results is interesting.
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May 1, 2015 at 1:03 PM
syed imran
I wonder where do we kashmiris stand???
We are entirely different from d races surrounding us; nevertheless we hv a striking resemblance with Iranians..
May 1, 2015 at 7:55 PM
meme
why does the average afghan female look Asian..Afghans do look alittle turk-mongol but that would only be 20%, the rest all look Iranian/greek/with dark features..not very accurate
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August 15, 2015 at 7:57 PM
Chow
These are all quite interesting, but you should North-East Indian and Bangladesh, I know people link them to South-East Asia, but technically and Geographically these are South Asian Ethnic groups as well.
September 22, 2016 at 5:36 PM
historian332
North easterners migrated from China.
August 30, 2015 at 6:05 AM
Shahid Marakkar
bollywood Indian looks like iranian lol
August 30, 2015 at 6:06 AM
Shahid Marakkar
bollywood guy look kinda like Iranian to me lol. his face reminds me of Hrithik Roshan, Srk etc
September 8, 2015 at 9:16 AM
Muhammed Aslam
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October 11, 2015 at 6:29 PM
Ibo
Jews/ Israelis come in many colours. Just like chameleons.
They are an international collective and often a clique.
December 8, 2015 at 11:39 AM
truthtellerpaperboy
The Punjabi tribe came into being through pack rapes and ba$Tardization as these vagabonds wandered throughout central Asia before settling into the 5 rivers area of northern India. In their DNA they carry hatred, rage, violence, rape, murder, thievery, dishonesty, thuggery and the need to destroy. It is the result of the DNA they inherited from their rapist central Asian fathers. Vagabond minded people like this, are an uncivilized race to enter Canada or other nations. A punjabi can only be tamed by brute force, with an iron fist and an iron bar and iron clad boots on his neck. Then only these wild dogs from northern India can be tamed. From a young age itself, the Punjooo must be beaten, disciplined, given electric shocks, until these animals are tamed enough to life in civilized societies. Brutality is the only answer these uncouth uncivilized brutes understand. They have no morality, no values. Sikhism and Hinduism and Islam are only dirty undergarments they use to hide their true violent DNA inbuilt into their race itself. Even their language is crude, dirty and uncouth, shows their backward and inferior brain structure. An inferior people in every regard.
Punjabis are a violent dangerous tribe, they are descendants of an evil vagabond tribe that used to wander central Asia and eventually came to settle in the 5 rivers region of northern India. They are demonized tribe, and violence, hate and murder and rape is in their DNA. They have reputation of being wife beaters, child killers, rapists and serial cheats. Dangerous tribes like Punjabis, Pashtuns, Turks, North Africans who are violent by nature in their DNA and have a criminal mindset into their blood, must never be allowed to come to Canada or other civilized nations. Punjabis are a hated people even by other tribes of India. Vagabond violent wicked demon possessed mongrels. They engage in terrorism and hatred in Canada, such as seen in the issue of Khalistani and Vancouver gang violence, they engage in illegal migrations, fraud, prostitution rings, drug smuggling, look at their native punjab, full of demon possessed men and drug problem rife and out of control. It is even common for Punjabi male men and cousins to engage in pack-rapes of punjabi girls and the girl threatened to silence in their houses. Lot of dirty things take place among them. They are a tribe with low moral values. A punjooo must be kept at a safe distance and considered an uncouth uncivilized race of people. Buddhism tried to civilize these vagabonds by suppressing their evil violent natures and giving them some moral teachings, but only partially before they turned into Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam and became dangerous all over again.
December 8, 2015 at 11:42 AM
truthtellerpaperboy
Most north Indians are half-breed mongrels, due to various rapes. They are very virulant and fanatic in claiming themselves to be Indian to hide this true rape roots. Aryan invasion theory is false, rape invasion is the truth. They were raped by Iranians, Scythians, Parthians, Turks and every other central Asian vagabonds. The sperm caused various light skinned half breeds with different nose, skull and facial features different from south Indians. If there are any fair south indians, they are descendants of migrant north indians and few middle eastern sailor genes infused into it due to coastal areas. Indians are a mongrel race in general, the purest are the South Indian black, broad nosed, tamilians and other southies. If you ain’t jet black, with broad nose, round skull and broad eyes, you ain’t a pure indian, you are a mongrel and due to Hindu caste system stigmatization, you hide your true mongrel half-breed central Asian roots.
May 1, 2016 at 5:03 PM
luke
Sikhs are different anyway they have Indo-Scythian looks and the Jatts so and Kashmiris look different so these 3 groups don’t count as any Indian
August 1, 2016 at 2:40 PM
Husayn
Luke what rubbish are you talking about ? Iranic Parthians , ruled all of Southern India
http://iranian.com/History/2003/May/Pallava/p.html
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/india_parthian_colony1.php
December 21, 2015 at 7:31 PM
Tata
The arabs men on these pictures are so hot! Also the afgan man… Wow! Just wow! He have a little bit asians eyes.
(I’m a western woman from northern europe).
January 22, 2016 at 11:37 PM
theholodoc
Tata, every man and every woman pictured is awesomely hot….The human race is gorgeous, on average….Dr.Robert
February 2, 2016 at 8:49 PM
Storyteller
I’m glad I found this project. It might come in very handy for designing characters from ethnic groups I haven’t met very much in real life. I hope everyone eventually gets filled in, although I can understand how it would be hard in some cultures. At least Egyptian women got selfies sculpted a few thousand years ago, so I can use those for my heroine if nothing else becomes available…
April 4, 2016 at 5:21 PM
GoanGery
By my interpretation. All the faces are good looking and all are mixes of the same derivatives genetics ( about 7-10) male haplo-groups and 1 female according to the National Geographic project). The National Geographic “Origins of the Species” project delineates that theme.
The genetics closely follow & are linked to Linguistic breakdown of Indo-European language groupings & some Sino groups. The offshoot migrations 12000- 14000 years ago from the Pamir knot and into the Pamir knot by the ‘so-called “dravidians” (before 14000 BP) show a mix & Remix. The Genetic information from North Africa show that the “monument builders” of Egypt remixing with original Africans ( our real orignis) are also of the same Pamir Knot derivative. Also most of the “Rus” Lithuanian/Polish & Germanic tribes going as far as Norway have the same “Paternal” grouping within 1 haplo-type of myself ( and most of the people shown)
The only real difference in peoples of the world is how much of the other “Homo Sapiens” genetics we have the 3 others beside “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” – “Homo sapiens Neaderthalis”, ” Homo Sapiens Javanian” & “Homo Sapiens denisovans” are each contained in all of us from 4% to 0.5%. Please remember that all the females mentioned would have the typical “south asian”/sino Haplogrouping genetically
Note: alternate “observational” For faces -There was book form the 1800’s where a British officer illustrated about 50 different facial groupings …. that was probably the best I’ve seen.
April 4, 2016 at 5:39 PM
GoanGery
Sorry I didn’t leave the website for the National Geographic genome project from where most of my info came from or the standard linguistics trees
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/59665/feast-your-eyes-beautiful-linguistic-family-tree
May 1, 2016 at 5:04 PM
luke
Many Jatts and Sikhs look Scythian or different and also Kashmiris too so these 3 people are non Indians in South Asia and the rest are all Indian
May 10, 2016 at 9:27 PM
Christoph Raethke
Interesting to see that the average Afghan female shows some mongol features. This region was in ancient times Iranian but later invaded by Turkic and Mongol peoples.
June 20, 2016 at 12:27 PM
luke
Iranians don’t look Mongol but Turkish is possible and Arabs invaded them I heard
June 22, 2016 at 6:53 PM
jelli jel
India is a huge country and has people from many ethnicity eg east Indians are more like Chinese , the north Indians and the most of north west India and pakis look more like Arabs , the south Indians look more like sri Lankan and Bangladeshis unlike Pakistan India is a land of great and educated minds who don’t judge people on their ethnicity and color,that’s why India is way ahead of pak and as a matter of fact i bet there is a whole lot of pakis(majority) with darker skin.
July 10, 2016 at 5:09 AM
Avnish
There are many different looks of Indian becoz of vast variety in climatic condition … In himachal dere are many different types of looks… Pahaadi gadwaali.. Kumauni in uttarakhand are different… Same in arunachal area.. West Bengal area.. Kashmir area… Rajastahan area ..Uttarpradesh and Punjab are like mix breed… Then south Indian … Is totally different.. Maharashtra area has different looks.. Goa and other coastal people are different…. In short it depends on climatic condition.. N India has many different climatic condition.. Climatic condition effects not only humans . they effects whole Eco system plants trees animal insects everything…….
(Incredible India )
September 22, 2016 at 5:32 PM
historian332
Sorry mate, climate does not change skull shape, nose structure, eye socket ridge and haplogroup type. India is populated by different races of people. It is understood that Hindu nationalists feel insecure at the differences, and want to create an artificial race, just to stay united.
In Australia, there are different climates just like India, and Aboriginals have lived in Australia for thousands of years, nearly 50,000 years. Yet, in the cold parts of Australia the Aborginals that used to live in Tasmania, were very black skinned. It is no different from India in climate or topography.
Secondly, central Americans, Indonesians, and other natives largely in tropics are not black, but light brown to brown and they don’t resemble anything of the diversity India has.
India is a subcontinent of Austroloid, Caucasian, Negroid, Mongloid all converging into one region due to its cross roads location.
IN SIMPLE WORDS, CLIMATE CANNOT PRODUCE A MASSIVE CHANGE OF THIS SCALE, ONLY GENETICS DO.
China has many climatic conditions too, you don’t find black Chinese and white Chinese. Indian therefore is not a race but an artificial identity and nationality covering multiple ethnic groups and races
Recent studies have shown, that Indians are a mix of ASI (ancestral south Indian) close to Africans and Austrloids, with ANI (close to Eurasians.Middle easterners) .
Indians are a mixture in a nut shell. It is understood that the caste ridden Indian society wants to pretend it is “pure race” and therefore, wants to hide its mixed roots. Embrace it, rather than fighting it. Be proud of the racial diversity rather than trying to create and pretend a racial homogeneity.
A Punjabi or kashmiri has nothing in common with a tamilian, not even a skull shape or nose or eye, climate cannot cause such huge differences.
Keralites are in south India, many ofthem don’t look much like Tamilians, despite being a hot place. Tamil brahmins are arrivals from north India, so they are fair, even within the same hot climate, therefore racial differences exist.
July 11, 2016 at 10:23 PM
Husayn
Haplogroup J2a-M410 in India was found to be largely confined to the castes[20] with no occurrence in the tribals, but a new study has found it at higher percentages (10%) among the Tharu indigenous people of Terai, Nepal.[31] In India, the J2 haplogroup is almost absent from tribals. Haplogroup J2b is associated with the Neolithic Greeks that spread agriculture. It has been found in the Dravidian middle classes in high frequencies also in the Northwest of India.The frequency of J2 is higher in South Indian castes (19%) than in North Indian castes (11%) or Pakistan (12%).[20] Haplogroup J was found to be even more common in India’s Shia Muslim community, of which 28.7% belong to haplogroup J, with 13.7% in J2a-M410, 10.6% in J1 and 4.4% in J2b.[32] The high variance of J2b2 in South Asia indicates a probable pre-Neolithic migration.(wikipedia)
J2 is widely believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture from Mesopotamia.[1][9]”The main spread of J2 into the Mediterranean area is thought to have coincided with the expansion of agricultural people’s during the Neolithic period.”[2] The age of J2 has been estimated as 18,500 +/- 3,500 years ago.[1] Its distribution, centered in Western Asia and Southeastern Europe, its association with the presence of Neolithic archaeological artifacts, such as figurines and painted pottery,[21] and its association with annual precipitation have been interpreted as evidence that J2, and in particular its J2a-M410 subclade belonged to the agricultural innovators who followed the rainfall.[22] However, Di Giacomo stressed the role of post-Neolithic migratory phenomenon, specifically that of the Ancient Greeks, as also being important in the dispersal of Hg J2.[7] Haplogroup J2b on the other hand is associated with the Neolithic Greeks that spread agriculture. It has been found in the Dravidian middle classes in high frequencies also in the Northwest of India. (( it was probably not the Neolithic Greeks , but the Indo Aryan Lydians who are the Minoans also remember Dravidians were in Mediterranean with the Lydians
July 11, 2016 at 10:27 PM
Husayn
Dravidians In Crete they were known by the name which the Greeks wrote as Termilai, in Asia Minor as ‘Trimmili’ or Trimalai (Sastri p60), and in India as Dramiza, Dravida, Dramila and finally Tamil. Their deity was “Mother-Earth” who gave them grain, vegetables and food. The ‘Mother Goddess’ cult belonged exclusively to Crete where it was known as Durgha (compare Trqqas mentioned in Lycian inscriptions in Asia Minor) as Uma or Parvati. (Sastri p61) They probably brought along with them to India this Mediterranean or Aegean Saivaism, Mother Goddess with her consort Siva.
(from tamil scholar))
September 22, 2016 at 5:35 PM
historian332
Most of the black Tamils came from Africa. The cannot hide their African roots in as much as they would like to. Africa was their true home. Most probably came from Kenyan coastline and sailed to southern India. Others were shipwrecked African sailors or slaves. Tamilian blacks are completely different group of people. any fair skin among them is either an outsider who got “tamilized” or product of inter-racial marriage with north Indians. Real tamils are blacks with negroid features. They are completely different race from kashmiris, weather cannot produce such huge changes, only genetics. In Australia there is cold and hot and desert, yet tasmanian aboriginals were black who used to live in cold tasmania for thousands of years (50,000 years)
December 10, 2016 at 9:29 AM
shaikh uzair
My Grandfather’s father is from north indian but now I Iive in Deccan part &But I’m confuse why my facial look is like Turkish as I’m indian……
September 11, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Abhishek Lokhande
Many of indians look like Turkish
September 11, 2017 at 9:02 AM
Abhishek Lokhande
Average indian face not look like that
November 3, 2022 at 12:10 AM
Slayer
I know. The average is much lower in genetic quality
December 15, 2017 at 12:45 PM
ztech
The Iranian samples look noticeably off. It seems like there is too high of an Indid/Arabid influence in the samples.
June 16, 2018 at 4:22 PM
Dczn76
Eee my man is from turkey and also jewish and this pictures not looking like him! My man has beautiful dark hair and brown eyes and darker skin than men from Poland where i am rom. I think men from Europa turkey are not same looking that Asian turkey are so this can effect study. If avrage intelligence was study here I think Israel would be higher than most.
Sorry for my english/ scottish!
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