Though this thread is not best place to do this, I just want to point out that the American invasion of Somilia now seems to have been a complete failure, with exactly what many of us (including me) expected to happen now happening. Running gun battles, the Islamists regrouping, the country continuing to fall into a death trap... rather then the completely stupid predictions of people like Dan, that it would be rice and flowers...

Oh, and all colonial countries (like Japan, England, USA...) continue their sickening view of th epoor world as being their domain. These countries, simply need to realize that what they are doing is the problems, not whether they are blond of yellow or blah blah... No one likes colonialism! these idiot rulers of the world are too stupid to even know they are colonial. it is simply too bad that the Beider Meinhof Gang and the Red Brigades have given up their past efforts.

I wonder--do (some) Japanese stereotype Americans as blond Nordic types? Now that computer-generated faces are easy to do, there's the opportunity to do surveys. Show a sample population from one country photographs of citizens of another country and ask them to pick the most representative one. Use the selections to weight the merging of the photographs into one. Then compare that with a more realistic picture.

(Of course, I'm at the age where I'm permanently convinced that Arabs look like either Omar Sharif or Alec Guinness.)