11.

White people can have trouble distinguishing between actual Asian faces

(results of a study were published in Frontiers in Psychology)¹

but the reverse was shown not to be true.

12.

From The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2015: “Alice O’Toole, a face-recognition expert and professor of behavioral and brain sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, admits that she often confuses two of her Chinese graduate students, despite her expertise.”²

Pyotr Konchalovsky (Russian, 1876–1956)

A Family Portrait (Against the Background of a Chinese Panel), 1911
Oil on canvas

Collection of the State Russian Museum