What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?
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Italian, Armenian, & often people just ask me if I am latin.0
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Spanish and turkish.. strangely enough! The Turkish mistake was by turkish people too.. then again so was the Spanish0
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People always think I'm Algerian. I had one guy start talking to me in Bangladeshi once then appologise as he thought I was from Bangladesh! I'm half French half Jamaican lol.0
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I'm white British, but have often been mistaken by Russian people for Russian. Apparently I have a Russian shaped face.0
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I get Irish, Italian, Polish and I even got Eskimo yesterday... Though that one I believe was more of a joke LOL!
I'm mostly all Scottish, maybe a bit of English mixed in there.0 -
I'm English but people in America often assume I'm Australian when I speak to them. I think it's because I'm from London but I don't sound either like Hugh Grant or a Cockney.0
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I'm mainly Caribbean, Scottish and English. Yet when I was born my mum was told that I clearly "had an oriental father". Everyone thinks I'm from somewhere different, and it varies depending on the time of the year. I've been called Oriental, Tahitian, Spanish, plain English, it really travels about the world a bit. Sometimes people meet my mum for the first time and they're like WTF o_0! I'm 5"10 and she's 5"3 and white, that's sometimes the start of questions.
Anyhuu I enjoy being mixed race, and confusing everybody !0 -
i'm canadian, with german on my fathers side and scottish/english/germanic roots on my mom's side.
I have been told i'm american (overseas), spanish and italian.0 -
Most people think White British, Dutch or German. When I was younger and had lighter hair I occasionally got the odd swedish comment. I'm actually English, Black Mauritian and Dutch so not that far off really for the most part, I'm the lightest person in my family the majority have dark skin.0
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I've been mistaken for so many different ethnicities that I just roll with it now...its fun keeping people guessing...I've yet to have anyone guess any part of my true nationality/ethnicity...0
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People either don't know what I am or they assume I'm Indian or Persian. Or they kind of know the area I'm from like the Middle East. Like once my teacher gave me dates because of my background even though she doesn't know what exactly I am. Another time, in school we read a book based in Afghanistan and I told a girl I understood it well and she's like well you're from there. Another time, a women spoke to me in Arabic but I couldn't understand her.
My ancestry is very mixed and my parents are mixed as well. My ancestry is Pakistani, Arab, Persian, Afghan and Mongolian. So people tend to be right about some of my ancestry.0 -
I'm Italian... all grandparents are either from Calabria, Naples, or Abruzzi. It's so weird because when I'm tan, I get mistaken for Spanish or Middle Eastern and when I'm a little lighter I get mistaken for German or Swedish lol so weird :ohwell:0
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Mexican and Cambodian... Mexican when I ha long hair and Cambodian every summer when I get darker0
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In college a professor whose main concentration was Russian studies thought my last name was Russian. My maiden name was Petrarca, a very historic and Italian name. I felt bad because I had to correct him in front of the whole class!
I also get mistaken for being Swedish because of my blonde hair. I am not only Italian, but also polish.0 -
Martian... take me to your leader0
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I'm Asian- American. I usually get mistaken for Hispanic or Native American because of my tan.0
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Sometimes people think I'm Norwegian-American, but I'm actually Swedish-American.0
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From Iran. I'm Mexican.0
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I've been mistaken as Mexican more than once, because when it's sunny out, my skin sucks it in and I get extremely dark, and I was born with dark hair and eyes. My heritage is Italian, German, and Native American. Two sets of great grandparents were Native American Indians, and the other great grandparents were off the boat Italians and Germans.0
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I'm often mistaken for being Irish or Scottish, because of my accent, especially since I moved away from home. I have both in my history, but I'm Canadian, just from a small island with a culture of it's own.0
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