curious as I get mistaken form anything from polynesian ,phillipino , but I am soutn american so just curious about every one else
2006-08-23 14:27:17 · 19 answers · asked by just me 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Yes , everything isn't black or white , there's a large gray area. I am Native American,Scotch. Irish, Etc Etc Etc.
A real American. I get taken for everything, Usually people think I am what they are.
My wife is from the Philippines, Just this morning a black guy asked her how to say flowers in Spanish.
People speak Spanish to me all the time.
2006-08-23 14:37:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure this isn't exactly what you mean by your question but I'll answer for the 2 points anyway. I've lived in Michigan my entire life (36) years and currently live about a mile from Canada. I guess I never stopped to realize how similar our "accents" and many other customs or cultural traits are between us Michiganians and many Canadians until I began travelling abroad. Funny because I usually think Canadians are mistaken for Americans when they travel abroad but pretty much everywhere I go people ask me if I am and/or assume I'm Canadian.
2006-08-23 14:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by porthuronbilliam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I'm fair-skinned, blue eyed and blonde-haired, and look Scandanavian.
The first time I went overseas, I went on a Danish airline to Denmark. The air hostesses all assumed I was Danish and talked to me in Danish all the time, even after I told them I only spoke English.
Funny thing is, they got angry, as if I'd deliberately deceived them, or I was really Danish but denying my heritage!
My mother looks exactly like me, and the same thing happened when she went to Germany, except the Germans were less weird about it (plus we are from Germany a couple of generations back).
2006-08-23 15:03:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - I sometimes have people speak Spanish to me. Also, the first time I went to Greece - I was sitting on a bench by myself waiting for my hubby and someone just came up to me and started speaking Greek. I just looked at them and said I speak English. They didn't so they gave me a strange look and walked away. (I think they were asking for directions, which I thought was really funny!)
What cracks me up is the judgments people make when seeing someone and "assuming" they are something they're not. But I've found when someone speaks a different language to me now and I don't understand them, they are still nice about it.
2006-08-23 15:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by monkeymom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya, for native American Indian.
2006-08-23 15:31:33 · answer #5 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, always! I'm french, my father is completely french and has brown hair and bright blue eyes.. My mother is completely welsh, which has given me a really strange look, with big green eyes and darrrrk tan skin- Very odd lookin!! I get lots of strange things said to me!
2006-08-23 14:38:28 · answer #6 · answered by maddzy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got had 2 people say I looked spanish previously, yet i do no longer think of I do. somebody else instructed me that I looked center eastern, yet I even have somewhat gentle pores and skin, so i do no longer see how all and sundry ought to think of i became into center eastern. consistent with danger, they meant eastern ecu?
2016-10-02 11:28:51 · answer #7 · answered by cracchiolo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many times
2006-08-23 14:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People often think I am hispanic, but I am Greek and Italian
2006-08-23 14:32:49 · answer #9 · answered by HaushinkaCool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, typically mexican, south american and sometimes middle eastern.
2006-08-23 14:40:24 · answer #10 · answered by Simplystunning 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋