I look very international?

Question

I was walking down the street and this modeling scout was telling me that I looked very East African, South Asian, or Carribeean. She said that I have a very "exotic and sexy appeal." I consider myslef Black but I get confused for a Domincana, Cuban, Colombian, even by other Black people.Has anyone else experineced it?

Answer 1

You should consider it very complimenting.
I don't have this experience very often at home because well here a white girl is a white girl but when I went to Mexico I was asked if I was Italian, French or Swiss a lot of the time. I sometimes get the italian thing here but not as often as I did in MX

Answer 2

It's virtually impossible to distinguish between a dark-skinned hispanic and a person who is purely black on looks alone. The only way to tell is by the way that person dresses, acts, and speaks.

I'm dominican so I'll give you an example using my race. As far as dark-skin hispanics are concerned -they range from indian (light-skin as blacks call it) through really dark; In the african american race many of these characteristics are also evident.

Now that my people-Dominicans-are entering the third and fourth generations of american citizenship, the lines between African American and Dominican are being blurred even more.

I'm sure you've seen some guy or girl(especially if your from NYC). Who you thought was black, but in fact turned out to be Dominican.

That's because Dominicans are being culturally diffused into the american society. It just so happens that the race we identify the most with are blacks (I'm specifically talking about the Dominicans born and raised here). Of course we still keep our "latin flava".

How many famous rappers you know that aredominican? There are a few, I'll let you have fun looking that one up ;)

Answer 3

I'm full-blooded (as far back as I can trace) Chinese, and in America, a Chinese girl is a Chinese girl. However, when I'm in China (I go to an int'l school), I get stares often because I don't look "local". A lot of Chinese people here have assumed that I was Korean or Japanese because I look different from them.

Strange, because my parents were born and raised in Taiwan and both their families are from mainland China. I'm a first generation Asian-American.

Answer 4

i can understand the other ones but colombian??? anyway, im puerto rican n ive been told that i look mexican (i get that one a lot) colombian, pretty much any other kinda hispanic ethnicity out there, half black mixed wit sumthin else, n one time sum guy thought i was sicilian

Answer 5

I am Half German and Half French...born in the US. Live in Germany for 4 yrs now, and get treated better by the Germans than the Americans for the Americans think that I am GERMAN.

Answer 6

I'm half Greenland, half Iceland. Very confused.