I like to read about genealogy and anthropology so I think about stuff like this from time to time.
I think East European models do look too young. Maybe they just choose them that way, who knows. I don’t use programs from East Europe or Asia for that reason. It gives me peace of mind to stick with American/Canadian programs that do their productions here. When I promote “Asian” I like to stick with models of Asian heritage who work in America with American/Canadian production companies. They look as old as I expect them to be. But models from Asian countries like Japan or the Philippines look too young to my western eyes so I am not comfortable promoting them. And throw on top of that I don't know the laws in that part of the world and have no idea how they regulate, if they do at all, their industry so I just stay away from it.
I’m 25 and I still get ID’d for liquor (19 is the legal drinking age.) It used to piss me off, now I get pissed if I don’t get ID’d. I’m Canadian. My family history on one side is a lot of Scottish/British/Dutch/etc. and on my father’s, depending on who you ask, it’s the European fruit punch with a squirt of First Nations (or North American Indian as some people still call them) thrown into the mix.
East Europeans definitely seem to have a different “look” about them as far as my judgment is concerned. One day for whatever reason I was thinking to myself: “William Shatner almost looks like he could have come from Russia” then I looked up his bio and learned his parents are both of Ukrainian decent. So I wasn’t too far off (he’s my favorite Canadian celebrity by the way
If I had to guess it’s less their diet and more their genetics. The movement of people from Western Europe to the Americas has mixed things up a bit over the past few hundred years. But I’m not a geneticist. I had a British neighbor once and he looked like everyone else on the block so who knows
2007-03-21, 10:14 PM
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