Greenbacks No More

Chacham writes "The Financial Times has an article about the US adding colors to some denominations of US currency. Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.I still haven't gotten used to the larger pictures. And now this? As Kermit the frog sang, It's not easy being green." The Federal Reserve has a press release. At least there's no mention of RFID tags.

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Asians DON'T look alike to non-asians

[darkonc]

They look alike to people who aren't exposed to asians in daily life.

Asians tend to live in a multi-asian culture, so it's easy for them to tell asians apart. because they have to hone their asian-differentiatiation skills.

Similarly, someone who grew up in Italy might have a hard time telling a bunch of swedes apart unless {s,}he had managed to live in sweden for a while. (yep... Tall blonde... what the hell else do you need to know?).