Take a look at the three men pictured above.
Notice any resemblance?
The center photo is yours truly—but so are the shots on either side!
No, these aren't Halloween pics. They're the work of Face Transformer (here), an online tool that mimics how you might look with altered genetic makeup.
All you do is upload a picture and choose a target ethnicity. The software does the rest.
Of course, being a different ethnicity means you'd have different parents—so the transformations are hardly authentic. But the experiment is fascinating, nonetheless.
Moreover, Face Transformer can help bring some philosophical and existential questions to light.
Once you've tried changing your ethnicity, you can't help to begin wondering what it might be like to be a member of a different race and culture. . .
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