Have you ever been mistaken for another ethnicity?

Question

what are you and what was the mistake.

did someone ever figt with you when you corrected them. saying things like you cant be!

Answer 1

I am Black and so many people thought I was Dominican because I know how to dance Salsa and Meringue really well, I can speak Spanish, I have olive complexion plus my hair's natural texture is fine and is pass my shoulders. When asked was I Dominican, I said no that I was Black, the people asking, which I took offense to, said no you can't be because you don't look Black you look mixed. I was offended because I can't understand what Black people are suppose to look like . Black people come in all shades, colors, and not all of us have the same facial features and shapes. I have many people in my family that have green and my grandmother has blue eyes and consider themselves Black because of both of their parents were Black people. I know in reality along our family tree we are all mixed with another nationality, but I base my ethnicity on what my parents and my grandparents are.

Answer 2

I extremely have variously been improper as Southern ecu / Latin, interior reach American, Brazilian although the main trouble-free is Turkish / close to jap / Arab even although i'm a mix of English, Irish with a sprint of French and a sprint of Spanish.

Answer 3

Im Vietnamese, in school and real life they ask me if Im Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Flippino, then afterwards they have no idea. After I tell them Im Vietnamese they're like ok... where is that language came from -_- . Lots of my friends try to defend, but then forget Im Vietnamese (for the most part).

Answer 4

on the phone people say I talk like a hillbilly hick river rat & I say , you know it's funny you say that cause I was raised in the foot hills of the ozarks along side the river. I'm like wondering if that has anything to do with it? Reckon.

Answer 5

i'm white and have an olive complexion. i used to stay pretty tan as youngster. i once had a neighnor at my apartment complex ask me to speak to the maintenance man for her. it turns out she thought i was mexican and wanted me to speak spanish to the guy. i live in texas where there a lot of them, and other ethnicities for that matter, i'm just not one of them. i told the lady, i'm sorry but i'm white and told her where someone i knew who did speak spanish lived.

Answer 6

Well, my parents are white (mostly anyways) but I look Native American...I took after my grandmother. But when I was a baby I looked black. When people see my baby pictures they can't believe its me.

Answer 7

i'm black, but i got into an argument with an older man who swore that i was native american or part oriental. i got tired of arguing, so i told him that i was korean, but had been burned by a tanning bed.

Answer 8

im asian

i bump into myself all day long in school

its kinda creepy

then i found out that it wasnt a bunch of mes

it was my fellow asians

Answer 9

I am very tall, thin, blue eyed blonde born in America. Yet people constantly ask if I am European, German, Swedish and Scandanavian. They actually say "No, come on, really." when I tell them I am from Arizona.

Answer 10

im black as you can see, and no, well mixed wit something because my hair is wayvy.
theres this gurl in me class she looks black all the black kids at da school think she black but she said she was white...i always say you cant be, but i jus be messin with her