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They look HDR'd to me which is all the rage these days. I too thought the article interesting though. Although the narrative of Captain America is that he enlisted in the 40's so chances of him having a turban and a beard are really really low, but it the dissonance effect is one that can be used to great advantage by artists to surface presumptions we don't know we are holding.

Although the narrative of Captain America is that he enlisted in the 40's so chances of him having a turban and a beard are really really low

Interestingly, one of the first known Sikhs in the US army was Bhagat Singh Thind[1] during the first world war. He was also involved in a legal battle[2][3] for naturalization which eventually lead to the landmark decision to allow "non-whites" to naturalize as US citizens.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh_Thind

[2] http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/261/204/case.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_T...

Didn't say it was impossible, just low :-).

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