{"id":38073,"date":"2011-02-25T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2011-02-25T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:51:22","slug":"the-changing-face-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/25\/the-changing-face-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"The changing face of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/6280_117117117429_521247429.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10104\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/6280_117117117429_521247429.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Long time reader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pmsol3.wordpress.com\/\">Dragon Horse<\/a> has been generating and collecting (top row images are from <a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/which-of-these-two-women-is-more.html\">Dienekes<\/a>) composite image of various classes of individuals for a while now. It&#8217;s really fun to just skim through and make your own assessments (the &#8220;global face&#8221; resembles darker skinned versions of Amerasians, whose fathers were white Americans and mothers Southeast Asian, to me).<\/p>\n<p>The most well known composites are of nationalities, but he&#8217;s also generated and reposted composites of other classes. For example, the average <a href=\"http:\/\/pmsol3.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/averagebollywoodactress.jpg\">Bollywood actress<\/a> <em>is<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrity9.com\/img\/aishwarya-rai\/aishwarya-rai.jpg\">Aishwarya Rai<\/a>. Not literally, but the resemblance is jaw-dropping (compare to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pmsol3.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/averageindian.jpg\">average Indian woman<\/a>). But most interesting to me were the comparisons of <em>American<\/em> film actors, male and female, then and now (&#8220;Golden Age&#8221; vs. contemporary). I&#8217;m pretty sure you can pick out which one is which if you&#8217;re American. There seem to be two correlated trends here: 1) more feminine features for <em>both<\/em> males and females, and 2) more youthful features for <em>both <\/em>males and females. Correlated, because neoteny and masculinization seemed to generally push in opposite directions of trait value. Projecting in the future I assume that the Global Human Celebrity &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time reader\u00a0Dragon Horse has been generating and collecting (top row images are from Dienekes) composite image of various classes of individuals for a while now. It&#8217;s really fun to just skim through and make your own assessments (the &amp;#8220&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1157,8,1158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composites","category-culture","category-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38073"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38119,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073\/revisions\/38119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}