I'm 100% Persian, but I get confused for being Latina or recently Indian (not Native, but Indian from Asia). But. the craziest one was when some guy said I look like a light-skinned African American person!!! NOt that I would mind looking like that, but I don't...I have a bit of a tan, but I don't look African American whatsoever! HaHa! What about you???
2006-09-20 07:46:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Latina..I'm White/Black.
2006-09-20 10:14:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ckarri` 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's funny you'd mention this question, we were just talking about this. Once, in Jr. Hi a boy asked me if I was Chinese because "my eyes were squinty" (I actually just had a fat face at the time)
I had also been asked if I was Mexican...strange, I'm very fair skinned.
In college, people had me pegged as what they called a Jewish American Princess..not that it's a nice term, but they called me that because of my long dark hair, fair skin and impeccable fashion sense! :)
I'm now 42, and the concensus is closer to what I really am...people say I must be Scotch Irish and others say I look native american...Bingo! Bone structure of a Cherokee and coloring of a Scot!
2006-09-20 14:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by pknutson_sws 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Russian and partly from Caucasus (my father's father was from Karachayevo-Cherkessiya). When I was still in Kazakhstan (the country I was born in) I was once mistaken for a person from Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia), quite a few times for a Kazakh (people who just read my last name, which is similar to Kazakh) and once... He-he-he, an American!
Since I've been in the States I have been called Swedish, German, French, Austrian, Romanian, Polish a few other European nationalities. Some people before they see me if they know my last name think that I am Mexican, because for an American ear it (supposedly) sounds like a Mexican name.
2006-09-21 02:30:04 · answer #3 · answered by almatinka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Black girl with a reddish brown complexion.But I also have a lot of white and native american in me. I been confused for a Latina, a Bengali, Brazillain, Indian, Desi.
2006-09-20 17:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not me, I am just a plain ol' white girl, however my husband is Filipino and very often gets mistaked for a Mexican, we have been in the store and a Mexican will come up to him and start talking Spanish and he'll say what are you talking about?!? Also he has been mistaken for a Native American, a Vietnamese, Thailander. I think that is it.
2006-09-20 14:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by Lilat180 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been mistaken for Filipino, Portuguese, German, Hawaiian, Latina, Irish. Not all at the same time, lol. But I'm Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. In my opinion I look white with a bit of Asian because I have black hair.
2006-09-21 03:02:27 · answer #6 · answered by SuperGurlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm East Indian, I've been confused for Latin, Mexican, Persian, Middle-Eastern, IRISH???, Italian, Native American, blah blah blah
2006-09-20 14:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by jit bag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went to a britsh private school for awile, and so I have a english accent. So often I'm supposed to be english or german. But I'm acutally 1/2 Dainish 1/2 American..
2006-09-20 14:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by zee1grl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been told that I look Haywain, Chinese, black, Portugal, and Mexican and Indian. Actually, I'm Guatemalan ,which is a country where mainly Spanish people live. It's interesting to see people try to guess my nationality!
2006-09-20 14:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by Guatemalan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People always think I'm mixed, black & any kind of asian ethnicity. Sometimes I get black and hawaiian, or black and latina. I'm definitely black, white and native american.... there may be more. Unfortunately a lot of that stuff is a mystery in my family.
2006-09-20 14:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by *karasi* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not very often but a few times pplz thought i wasmixed .. tho i'm 100% white brazilian.
no one says i look brazilian until i tell them .. then they are like.. "YOu KNow What .. You do Look Brazilian" heh think they're lieing tho..
my boyfriend is part Greek / Irish.. but alot of people think he's chinese when he wears a baseball cap. even other chinese pplz think so.. Its the strangest thing... cuz he doesn't even have slanted eyes.
pplz are weird
2006-09-21 02:13:21 · answer #11 · answered by nola_cajun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋