What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?

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  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Irish.

    Is this because they smell your breath?
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    No one "mistakes" me...they always peg me as Irish...no idea why...
  • Synapze
    Synapze Posts: 499
    Italian ;)
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    often it's Italian.
  • drchimpanzee
    drchimpanzee Posts: 892 Member
    Albino.
  • WeatherGirl8
    WeatherGirl8 Posts: 91 Member
    People always walk up to me and start speaking in Russian. It's kind of awkward. But I love listening to the language so I've never minded it.
  • McButtski
    McButtski Posts: 203 Member
    Albino.

    ^^^ Was gunna say....
  • christabel6
    christabel6 Posts: 173 Member
    I pretty much get identified as English (which I am) or Irish (because of the hair). No way round that really :-(
  • CarmenSRT
    CarmenSRT Posts: 843 Member
    I'm just caucasian. Ghost white skin, light blonde hair and light blue eyes. Adopted, so my true heritage got sold for the lawyer's fees along the line. I'm not sure what it is for real. Some guesses have been Irish and German through the years.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
    People guess Mexican or some South American country.

    I'm Samoan + Russian Jewish (Yeaaaaahhh...no one has ever guessed that. Haha)
  • ndnmomma
    ndnmomma Posts: 466 Member
    Well I'm Native American and so so many times mistaken for Hispanic.
  • Sonjalalala
    Sonjalalala Posts: 101 Member
    Hispanic. People have come up to me and said things to me in Spanish with the assumption I understand them.

    I'm Black...

    Bhahaha I get this all the time. Both my parents are full Italian. I can't tell you how many times people have approached me speaking Spanish or Arabic.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
    I thought the OP was Oriental until I read on.

    Ummm...people still use "Oriental" to describe other people?
  • Sonjalalala
    Sonjalalala Posts: 101 Member
    Albino.

    I don't see it... :-D
  • cschiff
    cschiff Posts: 209 Member
    I've often been asked if I'm Turkish or Greek (more so when my hair is dark, right now it's blonder).
  • JeneticTraining
    JeneticTraining Posts: 663 Member
    Native American, Cambodian, Spanish.

    I'm
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 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.

    Malo, malo!
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    People guess Mexican or some South American country.

    I'm Samoan + Russian Jewish (Yeaaaaahhh...no one has ever guessed that. Haha)

    Cool, I'm Russian Jewish as well.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member

    Cool, I'm Russian Jewish as well.

    What's up, cousin! :)

    ...I mean, Privyet, cousin. :)
  • binknbaby
    binknbaby Posts: 207 Member
    I'm a mish-mash of very white people (primarily French, French-Canadian, German, Irish, Scottish), yet I've been assumed to be Mexican. Granted, I grew up in San Diego where it's about 55% Hispanic (of some kind), but still... I'm very white. Not even a single drop of Latino blood in my ancestry.
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member

    Cool, I'm Russian Jewish as well.

    What's up, cousin! :)

    ...I mean, Privyet, cousin. :)

    Zdrastvooyteh! :flowerforyou:
  • deeruns
    deeruns Posts: 39 Member
    I'm Guyanese-American, but race-wise I'm black. Whenever my hair is long (and I drastically cut my hair at least once a year), I magically become Dominican. Lolkifyousayso.
  • richh963
    richh963 Posts: 78 Member
    Im 1/4 dutch, 1/4 scotch and 1/2 french a real mutt. but alot of times middle eastern men think Im middle eastern.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member

    Zdrastvooyteh! :flowerforyou:

    Kak dela? :happy: (I'm rapidly nearing the limits of my one semester Russian language education in Junior High. Haha)
  • 37434958
    37434958 Posts: 457 Member
    Everyone thinks I'm German, for some reason..I dont think I look german at all, lol. Maybe its the skin?
  • BigBrewski
    BigBrewski Posts: 922 Member
    Hispanic and Armenian
  • 7opoundsin16weeks
    7opoundsin16weeks Posts: 211 Member
    I've been mistaken for being latin, polish, and italian, where in fact i am arab
  • lotusspark
    lotusspark Posts: 367
    I have been assumed to be Lebanese, Turkish .. Greek and even Italian. I'm naturally just Heinz 57!
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    Whenever I'm in Europe, people ask me if I'm Irish (because of my almost red hair and freckly complexion) or English.

    I don't know what my ethnicity is because I was adopted, but likely from somewhere around there.
  • sissiluv
    sissiluv Posts: 2,205 Member
    Asian, all the time. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc, due to the shape of my eyes.
    I've been dealing with that misconception since I was a kid. In reality I'm a European and First Nations mix.

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