We look like how we act

When I was about 10 I theorized people’s appearances developed over time. If they were thugs they looked like thugs, and if they were religious they looked religious.

But how much can we tell from appearances?

Mannerisms develop over time for sure. The way you hold your face in certain situations I think are for more powerful than the ‘blank slate’ you were born with.

So you want to look like a crazy person? Start doing crazy things, and eventually your appearance will adapt and portray you as such.

I’d appreciate your input in developing this idea.

 

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The Chinese consider people who smile too much devious.

 

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I believe this is true, but to more of an extent than you think.

I do not believe that you are born with a "blank slate". I look into the eyes of babies and I see wonder, curiosity, and even personality.

I also believe that you can judge a book by its cover. And by book I mean person and by judge I mean infer traits. I believe that the same genes that govern our motivations, instinct, and undeveloped personality as a child also cause us to look the way we do from day 1.

Experience affects our personality and therefore our appearance as well.

 

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If someone were to look at me they'd NEVER guess I'm a homosexual communist.

 

and chinese who smile too much are mongoloid.

 

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Think less photograph and more video clip

 

I think you have it backwards. The people who look representative of a group do so because they conform to the general perception of what that group should look like. A priest is unlikely to get a mohawk and a punk is unlikely to wear a cassock.

That said you cannot generalise that all people look representative of their groups.

 

Interesting. But I think you're reading too much into it. Yes, I think SOME thugs look like thugs; SOME religious people looked religious. But I think that's about as far as it goes ...and it really proves or says nothing.

I think this idea is very similar to the old tale about people and their pets looking alike. It's true that SOME do look alike ....but that says virtually nothing about the gazillion of owners who do NOT look like their pets (or vice versa).

Baron Max

 

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Homeless bum or supergenius?

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Hot soccer mom or depraved pedophillic predator?

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I don't act gay or Marxist either.

 

I retract the blank state notion. I'm not sure to the extent genetics play a role versus environment on interpretational appearance. From foresight however I see the environment playing a bigger role.

Word choice, volume, tempo of words, all the verbal communication probably develops outside of genetics. Facial expressions, especially smiles are inherited from parents. So maybe a large part of our appearance is fostered early on.

Back in grade school I observed the way I laugh change all the time. I found myself picking up other people's ways of laughing and that sort of thing. It was quite weird. And surely laughs influence a lot of our outward appearance.

 

I think this is true to some extent. Another factor is - to paraphrase something Valich said when talking about dogs - people act like how they are treated, and my addition to that is people treat others based on how they look.

 

But I'm sure you portray subtleties that even you aren't aware of. Poker players feed off those actions.

 

I do swivel my head at passing Manolo Blahnik shoes, but that's it.

 

Somebody answer my goddamned picture quiz, will ya?

 

The soccer mom & soapstar are just little red x's for me. Einstein looks like a homeless dude.

 

I definately agree. I was about to include in my previous post that our environment and experience play a bigger role than genetics, but I found that I couldn't justify it. They are two different things interacting. Although situations and places in your life can change you drastically, all subjective experience is founded upon genetic makeup. It starts with that and experience takes off from there.

I have definately experienced that I pick up the traits of other people when I am often around them over a long period of time. We unavoidably immitate what we are constantly exposed to.

 

I was going to say soap star, but when I quoted you it showed the link and gave it away

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Anyway, I don't think these pictures counter the point Search & Destroy was making. Things you are talking about are not things people look like. Not anymore than you can look like someone who gardens every june 21st, or something equally random.

When he said we look how we act I'm pretty sure he meant characteristic actions, not some particular highly random event.

 

You're right. I agree.