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Old 03-29-2001, 12:43 PM   #88
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon:
In our cases all these standard faces are European. So, when we are now in a setting with many non-European faces our brains are flooded with images it cannot process in the usual economical way, it suffers from a complete overstrain and gives out only basic categorizations like young, female, Chinese instead of recognizing true individualistic features.
Ramon, thanks for your outlook and insights. However, all I am seeing is the individual features - that is my point. I liken it to being in a forest and noticing the detail on each leaf rather than noticing what kind of tree I'm looking at. Additionally rather than depression I am at peace. I am however at crossroads, so the circumspection is also necessary.

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