What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?

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  • Lunaam
    Lunaam Posts: 1
    I am spanish and puerto rican. People tend to mistake me for being Indian, hawaiian, simoan, filipino. I often get mistaken for a native american indian by native americans and hispanics. Hispanics from america seem to mistake me alot for another nationality. The only people of Latin heritage that know i'm latina are ones that are born and raised in other countires. I guess they have latinas in their countries that look like me.
  • Jenrosa28
    Jenrosa28 Posts: 732 Member
    People think I'm either hispanic or turkish!!
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    6/10 thread resurrection.
  • MeMyCatsandI
    MeMyCatsandI Posts: 704 Member
    I've been asked if I'm Canadian too many times to count. I guess people in San Diego can't tell the difference between an okie-dokie-hotdish Minnesotan and an out-and-about-in-a-boat Canadian.

    Hey! That reminds me..... Do you know why Minnesota is so cold? Because Iowa sucks and Canada blows! Yeah, I said it.


    ETA: Ah crap... dead thread!
  • Syl92
    Syl92 Posts: 55 Member
    Oh so many lol.. Native American, Chinese, Korean. I'm American Japanese, Mexican, Spanish with a dash of Filipino. Lol so mixed.
  • theskinnylist
    theskinnylist Posts: 286 Member
    Something Latin or Hispanic
    Black
    Bangladesh
    Mixed
    White - When I had blonde highlights.

    I am Filipino. We get that a lot.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Everyone, every where knows I am American. I have even had cases where I talk to someone fluently on the phone, then they meet me and are surprised that I am American.

    In Cuba, people walked up to me and said something about being American even after the nice Canadians gave me a flag to put on my purse.

    In China, a group of Japanese tourists at the zoo posed with us not unlike how they were posing in front of the fences.

    Do Northern Europeans get this when they travel?!
  • Justjamie0418
    Justjamie0418 Posts: 1,065 Member
    Hispanic
    Greek
    Italian
    Egyptian?! Lol
    Native American

    I really am not sure what all I have on my moms side but my dads mostly German
  • catrinaHwechanged
    catrinaHwechanged Posts: 4,907 Member
    Nothing....I'm just a boring looking white girl, lol
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    I get "you look very European" a lot. I am European, i just didn't realize there was a "look".
    I also get get asked if i am Russian.
  • nightengale7
    nightengale7 Posts: 563 Member
    I get mistaken for Italian mostly. One of my old coworkers insisted I must be part black because of my hair, lol. I'm actually half hispanic half anglo (pretty much anything around the UK). My husband was shocked when we first started dating and I told him I was hispanic :laugh:
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    I get mistaken for a biker all the time...
  • spud_chick
    spud_chick Posts: 2,640 Member
    I'm 1/4 native (American), and am sometimes asked if I'm 'part Asian' (usually Chinese or Korean is the guess) or occasionally 'part Mexican'. The curly/wavy hair throws most people. The tribe I come from is southeastern and doesn't look like the plains tribes we're used to seeing in movies.

    The other 3/4 is Swiss-German, assorted UK, and French ancestry. But I seem to take a good bit after my native side.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    You don't get that much paler than me - my family is from somewhere in the British Isles. But, I my eyes are a little on the small/narrow side.

    Back in 1st grade, all the kids kept asking me if I was Chinese or Japanese or something - never did identify the "something," but I'm assuming some form of Asian.

    I got so sick of hearing it, I finally said, "yes - both Chinese and Japanese." Never been asked since.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    Everyone thinks I'm Irish... I mean... everyone. People constantly tell me I'm such a cute Irish girl and have such cute little Irish kids.

    Zero Irish here. I'm half Italian, half Jewish. I get an amazing tan for a freckly ginger kid.
  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
    ive been mistaken for someone who cares...a lot
  • darls25
    darls25 Posts: 151 Member
    I'm part German and part American. Most people always think i'm Swedish or Dutch.
  • starbab311
    starbab311 Posts: 94 Member
    I am lighter skinned with light hair... compared to my family I am the odd ball.

    I am Puerto Rican but constantly get confused for Italian
  • frompster
    frompster Posts: 27 Member
    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.

    Same here. I usually get asked if I'm Mexican. Once on an elevator they didn't ask. Just assumed and started speaking to me in Spanish. When I said, I don't speak Spanish, they laughed and told me I look Mexican or some other Hispanic nationality. I wasn't offended, surprised, but not offended.
  • charlesnapolitano
    charlesnapolitano Posts: 302 Member
    mountain man
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    I'm English, but I have a French degree and I teach French at secondary school. A lot of the kids I teach think I am French, but that is more because they just don't get how someone can speak another language well.

    When i lived in France for my 3rd year of university a lot of French people thought I was Spanish. They even said I spoke French with a Spanish accent! I do have dark hair and dark eyes, and I had a tan then as I was in the South of France.
  • barbiegirl052
    barbiegirl052 Posts: 46
    i get confused for a German or Portuguese all the time!

    I am Puerto Rican
  • beskimoosh
    beskimoosh Posts: 375 Member
    People think I'm Irish until I speak!

    I'm half English half Welsh but I have pale skin, dark hair and blue eyes, so it's understandable. I'm from Newcastle so I have a pretty distinctive accent which clears up any confusion.
  • starbab311
    starbab311 Posts: 94 Member
    ive been mistaken for someone who cares...a lot

    lmfao
  • monizjm
    monizjm Posts: 92 Member
    Being in Hawaii, folks think I'm Hawaiian.
    Whenever I'm in the mainland / upper states, folks think I'm Mexican.

    I'm simply Samoan Japanese Portuguese.
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    italian, greek, latino
  • opheliaphoenix
    opheliaphoenix Posts: 1,474 Member
    I'm mostly German, Irish, and Scottish, with a bit of Native American on both sides. (I've also got a touch of Italian history in there, but you'd never know it in a million years...ha.) Most people immediately think 100% Irish, but my red hair, green eyes and pale skin tends to dictate that assumption, methinks. No one has really implied any other notion, lol.
  • kuntry_navy
    kuntry_navy Posts: 677 Member
    norwegian, not because of how i look. but, because of the way i sound. i guess south dakotans sound foreign to texans in east texas
  • calisunrise
    calisunrise Posts: 307
    everyone thinks i'm half asian for some reason.
  • jennfranklin
    jennfranklin Posts: 434 Member
    Mexican, Choctaw Indian, Asian, Jewish...

    Right there with ya! I get chinese all of the time..LOL it is in our eyes when we smile!

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