where could I possibly come from?

terracotti
terracotti Posts: 101 Member
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this has been bugging me for months. someone thought I was a foreigner before she heard me speak, in a fairly homogenous country. the first time and the last time someone told me that. so I wonder, like the title said, where do you think I could possibly come from?
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  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    Brazil
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    Iceland.
  • chubaway
    chubaway Posts: 1,645 Member
    Equador
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    Pakistan
  • mag131
    mag131 Posts: 542 Member
    Hawaii?

    Changing this to Thailand.
  • yslalison
    yslalison Posts: 1
    Brazil
  • TheLoneMarmot
    TheLoneMarmot Posts: 43 Member
    Heaven? :wink:
  • suv_hater
    suv_hater Posts: 374 Member
    Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii
  • mkphotogirl
    mkphotogirl Posts: 55 Member
    Heaven? :wink:

    awwwww. WINNER!
  • QuincyChick
    QuincyChick Posts: 269 Member
    Peru
  • ianthamfyolek
    ianthamfyolek Posts: 21 Member
    I have the same problem. I speak American Standard and have a career where I speak to people on the phone quite a bit, then meet them in person. When I meet them in person, they are frequently surprised by what I look like because I don't look how I sound, whatever that means. I'm Polish, Spanish, and Taiwanese. Born and raised in the USA. So... what the heck am I supposed to look/sound like?!
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  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    Venezuela.
  • Maaike84
    Maaike84 Posts: 211 Member
    India? I don't know for sure - I think you look very pretty though!!
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    Venezuela.

    Yup, I can see that.
  • TX_Thundercat
    TX_Thundercat Posts: 2,437 Member
    Narnia?
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    Dominican
  • jdm_taco
    jdm_taco Posts: 999 Member
    land of sexy women
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    PERSIA

    as in Persian, like the Kardashians?

    Being Persian I disagree, OP doesn't look Persian at all.

    And Kardashians are Armenians. Armenia is a Caucus mountains country, and Armenians are completely different from Persians ethnicity.
  • mag131
    mag131 Posts: 542 Member
    Well, where are you from?? lol
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Atlantis.
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    This is a pretty severe case of Amnesia, OP. I think you better get checked out by a doctor.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    your profile says you're trying to lose kg so I'm guessing you do not live in the US. if you were in murica everyone would just assume you're latina and move on. the suspense is killing me, what IS your ethnicity?
  • Ed98043
    Ed98043 Posts: 1,333 Member
    So you're saying that you live in a "fairly homogeneous country" - meaning that you are the same ethnicity as most of the people around you and yet someone assumed you were a foreigner? Maybe you should've asked them why they thought that. It might not have had to do with your ethnicity as much as what you were wearing, how you do your hair, etc.

    I can't figure out what ethnicity you look like from the two photos, sorry. Somewhere close-ish to the equator.

    ETA: My official guess is Polynesian, maybe Maori?
  • sassy9111
    sassy9111 Posts: 23 Member
    You are a child of the universe
    No less than the trees and the stars;
    You have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
    Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
    “”
    Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata".[

    Hi
    Your question brought this poem to mind, it is the end of the poem.
    I am from Ontario Canada, outside of Toronto
    We have always been Multicultural
    If someone asked me "What I was or where I came from, I would answer based on their tone
    1. I am a Proud American (Canadian what ever country) and that is all that matters
    2. Or I was born in _____, but now I am a Proud American etc..........

    But my favourite is I am a child of the Universe.......
  • BeccaBollons
    BeccaBollons Posts: 652 Member
    Portugal?
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Mexican?
  • 1stday13
    1stday13 Posts: 433 Member
    Puerto Rico?
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  • 1capybara
    1capybara Posts: 162 Member
    Ohio

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