As a rule, we hardly recognize the individual physiognomic features of representatives of a race other than our own. Previously, it was assumed that the reason for this was a small experience of communicating with foreigners.
But a study by the American psychologist Kurt Hugenberg and his colleagues from the University of Miami (USA) showed that the reason is rather our tendency to unconsciously divide all people into “us” and “they” according to race, social or any other characteristics. We are obviously ready to recognize and distinguish “our own” better than “strangers”, from which we unconsciously distance ourselves, involuntarily generalizing, typifying them.