What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?

LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo

We were asked about our ethnicity/nationality & made us guess each other's ethnicity. Now I'm curious to know what are some nationalities/ethnicities people have mistaken you from based on your experience. (Now this isn't meant to offend anyone here, its just for fun.)

I'll start off.

I'm Hispanic but many times I get mistaken as Indian (from India not Native American) or half-Middle Eastern. I remember two years ago when I was touring in Singapore, some Indians would come up & speak to me in their language. In the tourist bus where my companions & I rode, there was one Pakistani couple who while they're kind to all of us but were unusually very friendly to me & then later on the wife asked me if I'm a Pakistani or a half-Pakistani which of course I said no. And one time I was in a hospital waiting for my turn for a blood test & just two chairs away from me was one Arabic family (father, mother & son) & I notice that they were all staring at me. Another time when I was very new to chatting & this guy from Iran befriended me & then chatted to me in Farsi which I don't understand, LOL. But the strangest of all that I got was coming from my Peruvian friend who asked if I was Chinese/Japanese. Strange because I don't have Oriental features & I definitely don't look anything like these people (oh how I wish I would have their youthful features).

RitaSantoss

I'm simply Portuguese, but I've been told I look Greek, Italian and even Cuban. Most of the nacionalities people say I am just don't make sense.

delaney056

I'm half French Canadian, half Welsh, so I have dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin. I've been told I look Italian and Jewish.

seventwenty

I usually get mistaken for West Korean...

rjt1000

hispanic all the time. Arab once in awhile when I don't shave for a few days. When I worked in some greek owned restaurants, I was always mistaken for being greek.

When I was a kid, we did a lot of traveling around the US, and my mom always had a pic on the mantle (among all the other family pics) of the me outside of some native american reservation, next to the tourist welcome sign. When I was in college, my girlfriend went to meet my parents. She asked me after "why does your mom keep that pic with the Indian kid on the mantle with the rest of your family pics....."

Pebble321

I'm an Aussie (with a mixed British background many generations back) but have asked if I'm Italian - for no reason that I can see!
English people often ask where I'm from in the UK, but I think that is because I don't have a strong Aussie accent and I have a tendency to mimick people's accents unconsciously.

rjt1000

I usually get mistaken for West Korean...

I'd have guessed northern eastern european based on the skin tone.....

seventwenty

I usually get mistaken for West Korean...

I'd have guessed northern eastern european based on the skin tone.....

Nope. West Korean.

juliecat1

I'm Dutch and German. No one would assume anything else. Lol

glittermouse

I've been mistaken for Mexican, Guatemalan, and Indian. In fact, I've been mistaken for being Indian on numerous occasions. I'm multi-racial, but just generally ID myself as 'black'.

Skeebee

Swedish or French. I'm 99% Polish (the other 1% is Lithuanian which is pretty much the same. lol)

bonsaiblossom

colombian, jamaican, trinidadian, brazilian, alot of people think im from an island.... i really think its because of my hair lol

SmartAlec03211988

Hispanic. People have come up to me and said things to me in Spanish with the assumption I understand them.

I'm Black...

MajestyGisMe

I am Dominican (Dominican Republic is in the Carribean for those that do not know). I am often confused with Puerto Rican which is typical, and pretty close. But when I moved to Texas, they thought I was Creole from Louisiana or mixed Black/White...so when they would hear me speak spanish, they would freak out...lol!!!

Rosa1213

Well, I'm brown, so I get mistaken for Indian, Native American, you name it. If it's brown, I get called that

I have had a few people ask me if I'm part Asian, which I get quite excited about, since I have almost no features to show for my Chinese heritage.

likearadiowave

Mexican/Guatemalan.

Erindipitous

Irish.

Understandable, considering the naturally red hair.. However, I'm Polish, English, and German.

Leigh_D

Just your basic run-of-the mill caucasian Heinz 57 over here.

My ancestry can be traced in America back to the Revolutionary War on one branch of the ol' family tree, and from there and on different branches to: English, German, Swiss, Scots-Irish, and who knows what else! HA!

stepherzzzzz

Dutch, Finnish and Swedish. I'm actually mostly Scottish, English and German so I guess that's close enough lol.

JMPerlin

I always seem to get mistaken for some type of Hispanic/Latino, I am Italian American. My wife who is Hispanic gets mistaken for Italian American. There was also that one time when I grew a beard that someone thought I was Lebanese.

supahstar71

Persian, Indian, Italian, Egyptian, Spanish...

I'm Mexican. Brown n proud, baby! :smokin:

tara_seay

Mexican, Choctaw Indian, Asian, Jewish...

MLgarcia3

Mexican.. But I'm Filipina/Irish

I'm Mexican by injection though! Bahahahahaha :drinker:

Dame_Venus

I'm African American and mostly I get mistaken for Hispanic and Asian.

LorinaLynn

I have dark hair and eyes, and use my hands a lot when I talk. Everyone thinks I'm Italian.

In fact, while hanging out with my best friend in high school and our foreign exchange student, someone was talking to my BFF and she told him, "I have to get back to my friends..." and adding something about one of us being here from Italy. And the guy came straight over to me and told me he hopes I enjoy my stay in this country. :laugh:

I'm a mutt with a heavy leaning towards Scottish and Welsh.

crisanderson27

I'm simply Portuguese, bit I've been told I look Greek, Italian and even Cuban. Most of the nacionalities people say I am are just don't make sense.

I'm part Portuguese as well...but overall I'm just a mutt. German, Scottish/Irish, American Indian...lol.

Most people think I'm Hispanic however. I'm constantly getting people in grocery stores or on jobsites walking up to me speaking Spanish. It's become somewhat enjoyable to see their expressions (LOTS of different expressions!) when I reply in a deadpan non-accented tone:

No. Espanyola. Dude.

AuddAlise

I am a mixture of the northern European countries. I am white as the driven snow and have naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. I don't get mistaken for ANYTHING other than what I am.

Interesting side note: I am enough Native American that I can claim it but NO ONE ever guesses that. :laugh:

shanae727

I'm usually mistaken for dominican or puerto rican! I take it as a compliment and keep it movin!

Fasbold

When I was in college and working outside in the summer, I tanned very well. I had someone ask if I was Mexican. Nope, Northern and Western European. English, Scots, Irish, Dutch, German. Almost all of my ancestors we have been able to trace were here before the American Revolution. My Dad took a surname DNA test and our direct male line is not Scottish the way we thought. It matches more with the Vikings, so I guess my male ancestors were Viking colonists or raiders in Scotland. Interesting.

ZeroWoIf

None

TheRealParisLove

Maybe it is my region, but nobody ever talks about ethnicity here. I don't remember ever asking someone that question or ever being asked what my ancestry is.