How to distinguish between Northern and Southern Chinese

The concepts of northern and southern China originate from differences in climate, geography, culture, and physical traits; as well as several periods of actual political division in history. Northern China is too cold and dry for rice cultivation (though rice is grown there today with the aid of modern technology) and consists largely of flat plains, grasslands, and desert; while Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys. Historically, these differences have led to differences in warfare during the pre-modern era, as cavalry could easily dominate the northern plains but encountered difficulties against river navies fielded in the south. There are also major differences in language, cuisine, culture, and popular entertainment forms. The largest human racial group consists of East Asians and includes Chinese, Japanese and most of the Koreans, Vietnamese and Filipinos. Most East Asians share certain physical characteristics, but the peoples of Southeast Asia are generally smaller, darker, and more slender than those typical EastAsians from Northern China and part of Japan. In fact, some people of South China espeically those from Hainan and part of Canton tend to resemble other Southeast Asians more than they do North Chinese.

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[Nijikuma]

all people are different and beautiful and that's what makes us unique =)

[TheMessanjah]

wrong, eskimos have darker skin than nordics even when they live further in north

[ProudVietShitGook]

@supermonk3y07 , yes mexico is like a china with mixed ethnic groups of people and poeple can have a different percentage of mix blood. Indigeous people of mexico I can recongize easily.  Eva Longoria is 70% european, 27% indigeous indian = mongolian genes and 3% african.

[supermonk3y07]

@kikihav I think it depends on the mexican and which region of mexico you are in. Just like in china it depends which region you're at. I'm mexican too and I've seen people who are european cacasian, some are indigenous, some are also black even. but the average mestizo Mexican person according to wiki, roughly 58% caucasian, 35% indigenous/asian and 7% african.

[jojoinhere]

Northern China is always the political and military center of China history.only one dynasty in China manage to do a South to North Unification of China which is the Ming. and even that is the latter stage where they are driving out the already weak Mongol.

Southern China is always the most populous, prosperous and wealthiest region of China. Lot's of poets, painter etc are from Southern China where they have the energy and time to create marvelous arts.

[grubelsucht]

I like to guess where people are from by judging accents, body language, and physiognomy. Despite having traveled all over, I mostly get it wrong, even with people very similar to myself, so I consider such fancy as this video on a par with phrenology and astrology. Of course evolution has created obvious differences. Human genetic variation began at least 100,000 years ago and will increase as humans move about and intermarry.

[GreenLifeLover]

this is basically Social Darwinism....

[Lordofthenipplerings]

Latin Americans are Caucasians mixed with Amerindians. Original Amerindians probably looked like Montezuma and Sitting Bull. Latinos are called Latinos now because most of the population today speaks spanish.

[polychronio]

@padukamahasari you should say southern america belongs to latinos and northern america belongs to germanico, because latinos are caucasian too and most of western europeans are latinos(italia, France, Spain, portugal)

[polychronio]

@padukamahasari latinos are original arecaucasians.