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Today I'm playing a game called Ethnoguessr, where you are given two faces and you have to try and work out which ethnic group they originate from
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So I have a map in front of me and basically I would just click where I think these guys are from
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There are ten rounds to go through, this is round one, we have a male and female average face from that ethnic group
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Now a lot of people don't play this game because they are worried about offending someone
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so let me just say off the bat, I apologise in advance if I do offend anybody, it is of course not my intention
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I'm definitely not going to be an expert at this. I'm probably going to get some terrible guesses, but it'll just be quite interesting
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And it's different, isn't it, too? So I'm quite excited about playing this
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Now, I'm just going to get straight into round one. And obviously, these guys are from somewhere in Asia
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And there's a few possible places. Like, I'm thinking maybe they could be Vietnamese, maybe a little bit of Cambodia
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Areas of China, I don't think are impossible, but I think these guys are Japanese
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Now, I may be totally off, but that's kind of what I'm going with. I am going to hedge my bets and head a little bit towards Korea and China, just in case
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But I think, you know, looking at this man in particular, he looks Japanese, right
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Am I going to get this totally wrong? I mean, yeah, maybe I am
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But we're going to give it a go and hope for the best. Confirm guess. That's good
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Nice. Okay. I actually have a perfect score there, I think. I think 5,000 is the best you can get because i'm like pretty close to the the marker point now if I had gone in the koreas
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I would have actually been okay there and also some of china too And then we've got these kind of little islands as well, but that's a nice start
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Apparently this ethnic group is called koshu variant of the manchu korean type named after the old japanese koshu domain
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Once common in chinese korean Astocracy today mainly found in japan. All right. It was quite a nice start. Let's click on our next face
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Ah, here we go. It's definitely quite a bit different. We've got a lovely little moustache and immediately off the bat
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I'm assuming this has got to be over in this sort of area
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Like, it'd be fair to say that they could be from India, right? Now, as well as India, there's also places like Bangladesh, Pakistan
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I suppose, could you head over to somewhere like Saudi Arabia? I honestly can't really think what the average Saudi Arabian would look like
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but I think I'm fine kind of going back to India on this one
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Am I am I gonna be totally off here? I don't think so. Yeah, I think i'm fine going kind of india
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Maybe if I click on this side just in case we also are maybe pakistan area or maybe not
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Maybe maybe I feel quite happy with that guess and I'd rather go in the middle of india
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And then it does hedge my bets on either side, you know, just in case it is over towards bangladesh
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Do you think that's fine? I suppose we could go south towards sri lanka, but I think they look more indian than sri lankan
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Yeah, we'll go, we'll stick basically in the middle of India, right
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Should I go with that? Let's confirm the guess. Hopefully we're not too far. I should have gone south
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Okay, it was India, but it was sort of this specific region of the south of India
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Indid subtype with a position intermediate between North Indid and Grass Hill Indid
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mainly found in the plains of Malabar. Right, I mean, it's not too bad for the second one
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Obviously, I did get the country correct. I wish I'd actually gone a bit south, but I said no now it won't be south. It's quite a specific region this
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I thought it would maybe spread a little bit further. Okay, so far though, we're still doing quite nicely
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So let's take a look at our next one. Oh Okay, so these guys are
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sort of more Caucasian looking right, but they still got sort of much darker skin than me now
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This is ethnic groups and where they originate from as well So I don't necessarily know like how many hundreds or thousands of years we actually are going back
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but I mean these guys to me This is a weird one. I would assume it's somewhere in Europe, right
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Because originally I was thinking kind of Italian, maybe? Like, I feel like he looks Italian, but I'm not sure if she looks Italian
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And I feel like, in terms of an ethnic group, are we going back far enough if I'm clicking Italy
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I don't know. Where else could we go? Like, I almost feel like we could head over to Georgia and Armenia
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but I don't know really what I'm basing that on. But I mean, maybe they could look kind of Syrian or Iraqi
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Yeah, when we look at the lady in particular, I don't think that's the craziest shout in the world
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I don't know why I've homed it on Georgia, but I think I might go for it
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Do I click it? Hmm, could they be like Greek maybe? Do you think I should be back in Europe
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Is this silly? They've both got dark hair as well. Hmm I think I kind of want to hedge my bets here right Is there anywhere else they could be Hmm I mean it not the most insane thing in the world to think of them like you know around Mexico or something but nah we going
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Georgia-Armenian. I don't really know why, but it seems like what I want to home in is on, so let's
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go for it. Here we go. Okay, okay, did I get a perfect score again? 5,000? Whoa, wait, I think I
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actually smashed it this is what the actual location's been marked as am i a genius so if i
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had gone italy i still would have been okay because it does still spread in that region same with
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greece i'm really glad that i did not go with mexico i talked myself out of that one but even
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syria has a big hot spot as well and i did mention syria i did well there so this ethnic group is
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called pontid and it's an east mediterranean type sometimes associated with ancient scythians
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kurgans and other steppe peoples common in the balkans especially bulgaria macedonia greece
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western turkey ukraine southern russia azerbaijan northwestern iran etc etc basically a lot of
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eastern europe but generally sort of western asia i actually smashed that one i'm like weirdly close
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i don't know where i even got that from but it's probably gonna be all downhill from here as we move
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on to round number four. Ooh, right. Okay. So obviously a much, much darker skin. So off the
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bat here, you would be thinking somewhere in Africa, but I suppose you could also have some
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areas of, you know, maybe Brazil, maybe Caribbean, but I don't know if, if, can you say an ethnic
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group originated in the Caribbean? I honestly don't quite know because I know that a lot of
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people in the Caribbean came from Africa originally, but then also a lot of people came from South
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america too there is also possibly papua new guinea that these guys could be from i believe
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stereotypically people have pretty dark skin in papua new guinea i don't think they look aborigine
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but maybe they do so these pictures are generated by combining like a lot of different photographs
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and we can kind of see the girl's got neckwear around her which i'm thinking is maybe like
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african tribal stuff so i think i am gonna go in africa but obviously africa's ginormous and very
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ethnically diverse so how do i narrow it down a little bit more hmm part of me is wondering about
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maybe botswana mozambique sort of region but then i'm also thinking over in western africa i think
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i'm just guessing if i'm trying to visualize what people from these regions look like because i don't
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really know i feel like i kind of know what a lot of kenyan people maybe look like and i don't think
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that's what these guys look like same with ethiopia where do i go then hmm i think i'm gonna go kind
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of mozambique zimbabwe botswana i don't know why it's just the sort of feeling i'm getting
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should we go for that maybe i'll move it over a little bit and let's confirm the guess no i got
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this one wrong it was actually sort of this region between sedan and ethiopia and i discounted
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ethiopia i was like nah so that's a pretty bad score because even though i did get the continent
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correct i'm 3 000 kilometers away because africa is very large pre nilotid is the name apparently
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ancient type with proton nilotid traits today still found in the border region of sudan and
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ethiopia a link to early ethiopids is possible many of these tribes have suffered war and
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displacement and are now dispersed all over the world well that is very sad so ancient tribes
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that are still existing in low numbers apparently i'm sad about that one i had such a good one with
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my Georgia. All right, next face. Let's go. Oh, so I don't know, you know, I'm actually a little
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bit scared on this one that it might be over here, but I don't think so. He kind of looks like he
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could be maybe Mexican. I think I'm going to shy away. Like I'm wondering about Egyptian. Is that
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is that wild? Is that crazy? Is that a wild suggestion? We could have Egyptian, but then
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I mean, it's not too far from Israeli. Yeah, Jordan. I think they're Middle Eastern is what
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I'm going to say. And obviously that does leave quite a few regions. They do have quite light
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skin. We may be back towards Europe, but I suppose I'm quite northerly there. I am getting close to
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Europe. I'm in the Mediterranean. I might just stop trying to overthink it and just click it
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I'm going to go for it. Confirm guess. I wish I'd gone a little bit more north. It's actually not
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Not that bad a score. They've put the central point at Cyprus and I'm just on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea
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If only I had clicked a bit more in the sort of central Middle East, I would have got a better score
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But apparently generally speaking this is kind of a Turkish ethnic group So the group is called Anatolid probably the result of an Armenian influx into Mediterranean population
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Anatolids are the dominant element in Turkey today, but may also be found in a few other spots
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Well, it's not bad. It's, you know, that's quite close when you zoom out
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Actually, I think that's quite a nice score. I wish that I had gone in Turkey. I could have seen myself doing that
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But going down in Cairo, not too bad. not far away. Zoom out, look at that. That's a beautiful score. 3,000 out of a possible 5,000
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I'm taking it. Ooh, what? This is a weird one where nothing's kind of immediately coming to me
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I have no idea where to go. I mean, this guy's skin isn't that dissimilar to mine. So would that
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put us towards kind of Scandinavia? Nah, I don't think they look Scandinavian. They've both got
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dark black hair as well. This lady kind of has a bit more of an Eastern European look
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but I don't feel like that continues with him. I'm wondering if it's something like maybe around Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russian
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you know, like just this random region of Russia, maybe Romanian. I actually don't know
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See, there's so many different like ethnic groups that are overlapping regions
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So it doesn't necessarily matter if I was to click somewhere that I previously clicked
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because the world's diverse and people have mingled, you know, people have traveled, they've mingled, they've diddled
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This is a weird one. She definitely looks like a different ethnic group to him. That's the trouble
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They're kind of their skin tones aren't really that similar She's definitely got a little bit more of that olive skin whereas he's kind of more pale. Oh, I do not know where to go
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I might be throwing it away on this one. I guess at least we know it's probably not anywhere in africa
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It's probably not anywhere in oceania or asia and it's probably not anywhere in the americas
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So I surely am not too far away if I was to go, you know up here technically in russia
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but sort of towards Ukraine because I think it might be somewhere like Romania
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but I just don't want to be too far away. I'm going to just chuck this one out there and I'm really not sure about it
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Oh, I should have gone with Ukraine. Okay, pre-Slavic. Ah, ancient Central European element associated with the pre-Slavic people
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common in Poles and West Ukrainians. So I should have committed a bit more to Ukraine
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but I was kind of hedging my bets in case it was somewhere like Kazakhstan. That's still actually a pretty great score though
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Whoa, it's actually a really good score. 4,998 out of a possible 5,000
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Even though I'm not in the reds, I am close to the start of the red
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For my own satisfaction though, I do wish I had just committed to Ukraine. That's another really nice score again actually
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Yeah, I think we've done nicely there. So let's just move on to the next one. Okay, this is round 7 of 10
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Overall, we have an average score of 3,500. So I let myself down on the last round where we had people with particularly dark skin
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So hopefully I can redeem that now and i'm not sure I can as I said our options here are a lot of africa
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Possibly somewhere around, you know, polynesia papua new guinea, but then there's even a possibility of south america somewhere
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Oh, no, so this lady's got kind of like quite afro hair, right
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So I think I do go in Africa, but I do not know where
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I feel like they've both got kind of matching tops on, which is interesting as well
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Like you can see they've both got this sort of shade of purple, which I'm trying to work out why that would be
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because we haven't really seen that with any of the other male and female comparisons, whereas these guys are in like what's effectively maybe a uniform
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and I'm trying to work out what to do with that information. I don't really know where to go here, and I think I'm gonna go in Guinea
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Yeah, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone. So we're over in Western Africa. Do you think that's a nice place to go? I think it is
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Hopefully we'll do okay. Let's see. It's a terrible, terrible place to go
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Yeah, I mentioned Papua New Guinea and Polynesia, but I did not commit to it, and I have just gotten a zero round
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I'm 18,000 kilometers away. So sad. I went in Guinea, and it was actually Papua New Guinea
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However, I believe the horrible colonial white people they named this region Papua New Guinea because the people that they found there
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Reminded them of the people that they found in guinea I think that makes me also look like a terrible person and perhaps I should not have actually mentioned that at all
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But their names are linked together. I feel kind of terrible even mentioning that but it is still a fact
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Right, we should probably just move on from that round and now Ooh, okay
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So these guys are looking I would assume Asian but not kind of China Japanese Korea Asian more like deep sort of landlocked regions of Asia You know I was thinking kind of Mongolian Kazakhstan region But suddenly I thinking do I need to be in sort of Mexico Guatemala territory
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Like do they look maybe Aztec potentially? Yeah, I think I'm going sort of bottom of Mexico and I'm a bit scared about it because as I said, it might be back where I'm thinking it was originally over in this kind of region
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Hmm. We've got to commit to it, right? I'm going for it
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Oh, phew, phew, phew. Okay, so it's actually not an amazing score. I am kind of far away there
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but I am very glad that I did not go with where I was originally thinking. This is North Anid
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the most important and numerous Anid sub-variety adapted to the high altitudes of the Peruvian
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and Ecuadorian Andes, the dominant element in the ancient Inca Empire. Yeah, Inca is actually what
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I meant. I said Aztec, but I was thinking Inca. Oh God, it's happening. I'm offending people
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Yeah, it's not a great score that one, but I'm still kind of happy with it because at least we sort of were on the right track
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I should have gone further down. Okay, let's go to our penultimate round
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Okay, please, come on. So far, we have not really done a great job identifying where the black people in this game have come from
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Can we redeem that today? It's a weird game, you know. I can see why people didn't want to record it because you feel like you're just being really offensive, even though you're literally just playing a game
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Okay, where do we go this time? Once again, they're kind of in similar looking outfits, right
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Oh god, I don't know where to go. So this pair have lighter skin than the previous round, which was over in Papua New Guinea
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I don't think they look like they're from South America or anywhere. So I think we are going back to Africa
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So that other round, that was Ethiopia. I can't actually remember what they looked like
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So I'm trying to think how similar they are. I don't think they are. I think these two have got lighter skin
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I'm kind of thinking around sort of Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania. I don't really know why
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Yeah, I suppose they could look Kenyan maybe, do you think? Yeah, let's go towards Kenya and let's confirm our guess
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Damn, okay. So continent's correct, but not particularly close. It was over in Western Africa
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I would have been safe clicking anywhere around here. I would have gotten a great score, so that's annoying
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Sudano-Guinnessid. Transitional type between Sudanid and Guinnessid, common in West Africa. Okay, not an amazing score
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My average is starting to fall down after having a good couple of rounds
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So hopefully as we move into this final phase, we will end on a good score and let's see
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Ooh, that's a really interesting one. That could be Aboriginal down in Australia, maybe
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Where else could it be? Could we be sort of like Inuit up in sort of North Canada
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Oh, those areas are so far away from each other. I'm about to get a terrible, terrible score to end this video on
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I am confused by this one. I actually don't know. Like potentially we might be back in Africa again
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This is such a wide variety of places. They have such dominant features like their their brows are so strong
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Oh god, I don't know where to go. Does it look cold in the background? It doesn't really look particularly snowy, does it? I think we're going
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Aborigine. Oh, polynesian. Yeah, I don't know What if it's somewhere like bolivia? Nah, no, yeah, no, no, okay. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna go
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I have no idea. Yeah, I think we're going aborigine. So I guess we go in australia. Do I commit to this? Yeah
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No, maybe yeah, we could go aborigine or we could go maori in new zealand
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I can't really get a good sort of visual on either in my head. I guess i'm going australia
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But I do not know i'm literally thinking I could be so so far away here
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The more I look at them the more i'm thinking maybe I need to go back to somewhere like india or that kind of region
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at least. Like, this guy, I guess, could look Indian, but the lady does look more aborigine-y
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or at least in my head, or whatever I'm depicting that as. Let's just go for it and let's see
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Okay, phew. We actually smashed that one to end off on. Australian subtype with proto-Caucasian
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form features associated with the people of the Murray Basin of southeastern Australia. Originally
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the most numerous Australian-type European settlers colonized the fertile lands of the
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southeast first and pushed back the natives. Today, almost extinct in pure form, many mixed
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individuals still remain. That's depressing, but we did get a bullseye to finish off. That's a
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perfect score. So overall, we actually had three perfect rounds, which I think is quite good, but I
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did have a few terrible rounds as well. But it was generally Africa where I let myself down because
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it's a very diverse country and obviously something that I do not know enough about
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Anyway, hopefully you enjoyed this. Hopefully I have not been cancelled in this video by playing
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