What nationality/ethnicity people have mistaken you?

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  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    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
    annabelsmommy Posts: 24 Member
    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
    ZeroWoIf Posts: 588 Member
    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
    bigcity_tinydreams Posts: 10
    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
    RCKT82 Posts: 409 Member
    Half Filipino, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian...

    Mostly Mexican... a few times as Inuit (eskimo)
  • tennisbabe94
    tennisbabe94 Posts: 444 Member
    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
    yesenia007 Posts: 11 Member
    I always get mistaken for black. I'm actually hispanic (Dominican).
  • LadyVivica
    LadyVivica Posts: 84 Member
    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
    Turtlehurdle Posts: 412
    Colombian, Argentinian, Chilean, Costa Rican,....
  • HappyHealthyChic
    HappyHealthyChic Posts: 5
    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
    ZeroWoIf Posts: 588 Member
    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
    Heyman09 Posts: 184
    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
    MLgarcia3 Posts: 503
    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
    Nataliaho Posts: 878 Member
    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
    rm830 Posts: 531 Member
    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
    natashiag Posts: 33
    I'm Cuban... I rarely get someone who even thinks I'm hispanic even most hispanics, I look arabic all the way LOL
  • filomenae
    filomenae Posts: 110 Member
    Most people think I'm Greek. I'm mainly Irish and Italian : P
  • julesboots
    julesboots Posts: 311 Member
    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
    darkstormlegacy Posts: 1
    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
    angelachristin Posts: 15
    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
    alex88carolina Posts: 108
    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
    KayeeDaisyBee Posts: 124
    I've been told i look Egyptian before.
  • ZeroWoIf
    ZeroWoIf Posts: 588 Member
    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
    coolasafan Posts: 75
    Probably Japanese.
  • angelachristin
    angelachristin Posts: 15
    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
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    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
    ShazMc73 Posts: 106 Member
    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
    iloso Posts: 156
    Spanish or Barbadian - Im simply Jamaican with european,italian, and british hidding somewhere in there.
  • 12by311
    12by311 Posts: 1,716 Member
    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
    dizzydi1968 Posts: 564
    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!!

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