Facial characteristics of Asians differ a lot from Occidental ones, for instance Occidentals tend to have a horizontal Nasal-Intersection blocking their right eye from looking further to the right providing an Hold-on/Threshold, in contrast to asians who haven’t got a significant Vertical Nasal-Intersection.
When we look closely at asian eyes we see that their Alpha-Area is shaped by their eyelids, giving them an Alpha-blocking in a Horizontal/Oblique direction, this results in a Horizontal-Visual-Alignment, see presentation:
http://www.sharp-sighted.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=82
When it come to alignment, we can can notice that our view is aligned to the Alpha region that surrounds our eyes. For Asians this alignment is Horizontal as the haven’t got an signature intersection as occidentals, who have a vertical alignment. see presentation:
http://www.sharp-sighted.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=153
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