What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?

meshashesha2012

when i had straightened long hair i was frequently mistook for east indian to the point where people would come up to me and speak in hindi.

now that i no longer relax my hair, not so much. there's no mistaking this fro. but i do get asked if i'm black and something else to which i always reply I'm mixed with black and blacker :laugh:

annabelsmommy

I'm 3/4 German and 1/4 Native American. People have asked me on several occasions if myself and my children are Russian. Russians come up to us at the playground and the grocery store and talk to us all the time

ZeroWoIf

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

I thought you were messing around but now that I see you I would easily mistake you with one since I'm from there lol.

bigcity_tinydreams

My parents are both from Trinidad & Tobago (in the Caribbean), but between the two of them, I have come out to be 1/2 Indian, 1/4 black, and 1/4 white.

I always, always get mistaken for Dominican though and, if not that, people assume I speak Spanish anyway.

I do not. T&T = British colony.

RCKT82

Half Filipino, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian...

Mostly Mexican... a few times as Inuit (eskimo)

tennisbabe94

My dad is from Cameroon (Africa) and my mom is from Spain. People think I'm Indian, Egyptian, Mexican... pretty much everything. Hahaha it's pretty hilarious the things they assume!

yesenia007

I always get mistaken for black. I'm actually hispanic (Dominican).

LadyVivica

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).

I get the exact opposite, i'm Indian and get mistaken for Mexican, Spanish, and Puerto Rican...Indians and Arabs just stare at me creepily trying to figure it out...*headdesk* it is so annoying...

Turtlehurdle

Colombian, Argentinian, Chilean, Costa Rican,....

HappyHealthyChic

I once got asked if I was Italian.....which is odd because I have fair to medium skin tone, blue grey eyes and brown curly hair. And my nose is quite small lol My Boyfriend and his friends say I have a "Burnside face"........elegant looking. Burnside is one of the nicest suburbs where I'm from.....maybe they think I look like a snob LOL.

ZeroWoIf

Half Filipino, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian...

Mostly Mexican... a few times as Inuit (eskimo)

Filipinos are the most mistaken of all time haha. I swear every filipino tells me they been mistaken. Filipinos have to be one of the best cultures I have known. Great food, and great personalities.

Heyman09

I always get mistaken for being white but I'm really Puerto Rican and Mexican (I think, I don't know much from my sperm donor side but on my mom's side I know I'm puerto rican)

MLgarcia3

Half Filipino, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian...

Mostly Mexican... a few times as Inuit (eskimo)

Filipinos are the most mistaken of all time haha. I swear every filipino tells me they been mistaken. Filipinos have to be one of the best cultures I have known. Great food, and great personalities.

I'm going to have to agree with you on that one :bigsmile:

Nataliaho

I am an Aussie with convict and aboriginal ancestry, but people usually think I am greek or italian because I have olive skin and naturally curly dark brown hair. The most irritating thing is that when someone asks me "where are you from?" etc and I say Australia, then they'll push the point about how I look, so I'll say my family have been here 7+ generations. Often they'll push the point further about where my colouring comes from, but when I say its aboriginal they will often want to argue with me about it. There is a strong (false) stigma in Australia that people fake aboriginality... so even though they ask, they push and push, they then argue my answer... tres-frustrating!

rm830

Mexican, Middle Eastern, Native American mostly. People come talk to me in Spanish ALL the time!!! Some people have even gotten mad when I tell them sorry I don't speak Spanish, and yelled at me for not knowing "my" language. lol I'm Indian, born in India.

natashiag

I'm Cuban... I rarely get someone who even thinks I'm hispanic even most hispanics, I look arabic all the way LOL

filomenae

Most people think I'm Greek. I'm mainly Irish and Italian : P

julesboots

I'm half jewish/half super white, and people think I'm hispanic, asian, or middle eastern. My best friend in elementary school would ask me if I was chinese about once a month.

darkstormlegacy

Hispanic. Most people think I'm Hispanic and people speak to me in Spanish all the time. If people don't think I'm Hispanic they usually assume I'm half Black and half White. I'm half Black and half Indian (India not Native American) and 100% Jamaican.

angelachristin

I've had a few people think I'm part Hispanic. The reason might be more my interest in Hispanic culture than the way I look. I'm pretty much just European American... aka: white. :P

alex88carolina

I am 1/2 Spanish and the rest is native American and white. I get confused for different races all of the time.lol.

KayeeDaisyBee

I've been told i look Egyptian before.

ZeroWoIf

I've had a few people think I'm part Hispanic. The reason might be more my interest in Hispanic culture than the way I look. I'm pretty much just European American... aka: white. :P

Wait a minute, you sure you aint hispanic?

coolasafan

Probably Japanese.

angelachristin

I've had a few people think I'm part Hispanic. The reason might be more my interest in Hispanic culture than the way I look. I'm pretty much just European American... aka: white. :P

Wait a minute, you sure you aint hispanic?

:laugh: I wish

BondBomb

I get Colombian and Dominican a lot. A coworker introduced me to his wife, who is Colombian and we couldn't get over how much we looked alike.

ShazMc73

I'm Indian and Scottish and live in the Caribbean but people often think I am from Spain, Greece, Venezuela, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Syria, Turkey but most often I get Spain...

iloso

Spanish or Barbadian - Im simply Jamaican with european,italian, and british hidding somewhere in there.

12by311

I'm white.

I've had people walk up speaking spanish to me before.

I've been asked if I'm brazilian, hispanic, etc..and one of my black friends in college thought I was half black/white. Didn't believe me when I said I wasn't.

dizzydi1968

I'm very much white British but tan very dark.

I once applied for a job just after returning from holiday, they asked for a photo with the application. When I attended the interview several weeks later my tan had faded and they were devastated. Turned out they were looking to fill their positive ethnic recruitment quota and thought I was Asian!!