Quick: what nationality are the people in these sketches?
Even for the 42% of readers who are not American I doubt that there were many mis-calls. And for the 58% who are: if you mis-id'd, emigrate, or at least go to the optometrist.
These are from the Chinese-American artist Weimin Mo. This is the first time I have seen Mr. Mo's sketches. Take any straight line in his sketches: I can't do that. I cannot draw a straight line.
Mr.Mo is excellent at capturing the soul of his subjects. Where else would you see the gentleman in Mr. Mo's first sketch below? Older, but typical of Americans, dressed casually, wearing the ubiquitous cap, drinking (coffee, I bet) out of a cup with a plastic lid. And the paunch! I saw ONE, uno as we say in America, overweight Chinese in two trips to Beijing--and he was at the Bally's gym. This is what we Americans look like, for better and whatever.
Oh my God, oh my God, these two are hilarious. Every American knows two women like this. We are forming an American template here: overweight, casually dressed, drinking from fast food cups.
Stylish, oui? I think the Elvis look works well on middle-aged American women.
Me, on the verge of an asterisk attack, after reading Thomas L. Friedman.
This is the only one that I didn't think looked American. They look Russian.
She's...attractive.
Oh lord, it's a good thing I can't draw.
Add shades to the American template. This guy looks like he is a retired CIA spook.
Brash, confident, cowboy-like hatted, casual.
Casual, with skully-cap.
