text: do chinese people really show more variation in their facial features then europeans? i have always thought of people from china as "1.3 billion clones", they all look alike to me. but i have read that the chinese people have over 25,000 different facial features, body types, and hair types. much more than europeans. it is very convincing but how come my eyes can't quite see the extreme variations that there is supposed to be? in fact, i can't tell you the real 100% true answer, but maybe my two cent can help you answer your que i hope:  1. there are 56 ethinic group in china. from majority han people, to russians and korean who live in the border of china, to hmong, kazakh, zhuang who live in western part of china, technically china is not even one single raced!!!!  some of them have are simply caucasian while some of them look like viet while some of them can be very typical chinese looking.  2. i'm full-chinese who was born in hong kong, gloden brown eyes/dark brown hair/porcelain skin/medium bulit, yet both of my parent have very different face structure and skin color. my dad have golden tanned skin, black hair black eyes (have those slanted eyes), big nose and thin lips, he is a skinny person.  my mom, on the other hand is very very fair (with freckles), dark brown hair hazel eyes with green rims, big round hazel eyes with deep creases, small flat nose with some nostril showing, and somehow a thick lips, and she is curvy.  both of my grandpa is very fair and one of them have a nice tall nose with round eyes, and one of my grandma look like lucy liu.