Do you get mistaken for another ethnicity or nationality?

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Verdekal
03/05/2024
12:01 PM
#1
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Zwijn
03/05/2024
12:05 PM
#2
Ive been called German once by other Dutchies.
TMOG
03/05/2024
12:06 PM
#3
No, but I get a lot of people assuming that I'm a woman because of my voice and longer hair, and they can't actually be bothered to look at the lowly cashier they're buying something from.
FolkenRawr
03/05/2024
12:07 PM
#4
Lmao nope. I'm H-W-white
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Smashingpmkns
03/05/2024
12:08 PM
#5
I get Jewish and middle eastern a lot. I'm Mexican tho lol
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HBKick18
03/05/2024
12:08 PM
#6
all the time and misgendered. it happens enough where i don't take it personally
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TheSavageDragon
03/05/2024
12:11 PM
#7
Constantly. I've been mistaken for Turkish, Moroccan, Greek, Spanish and Italian. Probably because I've got some Romani ancestry.

Once was walking home from school in my late teens and a car with German plates pulled up next to me occupied by 2 adult Turks and 2 children. One of the men gets out, shakes my hand and starts talking in his native language to me while palming a wristwatch into my hand.
Seeing the very confused look on my face he asked "You not Turkish?" in English and then proceeded to explain they came from Germany to visit relatives in France, but they had miscalculated how much gas it would take and had no money to refill the tank. So he was trying to sell me his watch. They remained unlucky as I was even worse with money as a teen than I am today, so I had nothing to give.
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SauI_Goodman
03/05/2024
12:12 PM
#9
Biracial so i get mistaken all the time. People come up to me in all kinds of languages.
Italian, French, German.
ArsGoetia
03/05/2024
12:14 PM
#10
HBKick18 posted...
all the time and misgendered. it happens enough where i don't take it personally

same, and pretty much my whole life
when i was a baby i looked so asian that my dad was convinced my mom cheated on him lol
SamsungGearS2
03/05/2024
12:17 PM
#11
I get mistaken for and labeled as an asshat even though Im like a giant teddy bear once you actually get to know me - thats if you dont piss me off in the process though.
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Nirvanas_Nox
03/05/2024
12:17 PM
#12
I've been mistaken for latino before but that's about it.
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Hayame_Zero
03/05/2024
12:18 PM
#14
Some people asked if I was mixed back when I had hair.
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ArsGoetia
03/05/2024
12:23 PM
#15
Asherlee10 posted...
Oddly I've been asked if I'm Asian, too. But man, I don't see the markers at all. I have a Mediterranean nose, no epicanthic fold on my eyes, and my eyelids are only a tiny bit hooded.


mostly same except the nose
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MacadamianNut3
03/05/2024
12:24 PM
#17
Ethiopians in the downtown area of the city I live in used to always think I was also Ethiopian. The most I know about my family history is that my great great grandfather was straight up Italian, and everything else is Black American or claimed native ancestry which I wasn't going to get tricked into verifying with 23andMe

It was funny when they greeted me in foreign languages and I could only say "huh" and they switched to English. Happened almost every single time I stepped outside and interacted with them
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wackyteen
03/05/2024
12:24 PM
#18
Absolutely not.

I am painfully white.
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FortuneCookie
03/05/2024
12:26 PM
#19
I'm White. I have Native American ancestry on my dad's side. Every great once in a while, someone asks me if I'm Puerto Rican. I get compared to Pedro Pascal a lot. (I'm shorter and chubbier though.)
SiO4
03/05/2024
01:00 PM
#20
Yes, people think I am Irish.

I'm mostly Northern Italian.
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Mistere_Man
03/05/2024
01:08 PM
#21
As a reptilian overlord I must keep up appearances as a human or else my cover be blown!

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kirbymuncher
03/05/2024
01:11 PM
#22
I'm majority ethnicity in my home country and I very rarely leave the country for people to even mistake me anywhere else. I also don't tend to get mistaken online because I have a somewhat normal sleep schedule so I don't look like I'm in someone else's timezone
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Puglia77
03/05/2024
01:22 PM
#23
Some Indians thought I was white, then other times I get asked if I'm from Guyana or Trinidad. My dad's side of the family is Indian from Trinidad. Other Caribbean people definitely recognize it when they hear my accent.

I've gotten Italian before, my mom's side of the family is PR and Ecuador.
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DarkDoc
03/05/2024
01:26 PM
#24
London accent. Some Americans think I'm Australian.
Babidi123
03/05/2024
01:34 PM
#25
Im 100% Greek but Ive heard Italian, Middle Eastern, and even Latino.
Bass
03/05/2024
01:34 PM
#26
I'm whiter than Casper so no. My last name also matches one of the major ethnicities I am.
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PMarth2002
03/05/2024
02:08 PM
#28
Does someone thinking I'm jewish count? That happened once.

Other than that, no.
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VeesMcGees
03/05/2024
02:11 PM
#29
I've been mistaken for Mexican and Arab, though the latter was a long time ago.
NoxObscuras
03/05/2024
02:12 PM
#30
Not in person. I am unmistakably Black. But online definitely. People usually assume I'm White or Asian lol
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KookyCouture
03/05/2024
02:13 PM
#31
Sometimes, usually Italian or Spanish
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mercurydude
03/05/2024
02:14 PM
#32
A lady once told me I look like a Viking and I thought she was seeing things, but then I later found out I'm descended from them, so I guess she knew what she was talking about.
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Sheiky-Baby
03/05/2024
02:15 PM
#33
Yeah, my whole family did. We're Korean, and you can figure out what majority of people thought we were. Any Asian growing up in the US can attest to this.
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Guide
03/05/2024
02:16 PM
#34
Sure. I've been called Italian, German, Polish even. I'm Puerto Rican/Ecuadorean, it's just I got all the Spaniard phenotypes.
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KINDERFELD
03/05/2024
02:18 PM
#35
Literally all my life.
It got worse when I moved to America and white folks are determined to put you in a box so they can discriminate against you.

I've been called Arab and Middle Eastern when 9/11 happened. The amount of discrimination I experienced during that time.

Also, when it was politically okay to blame illegal Mexicans for EVERYTHING wrong in America, I was called an illegal and told multiple times to go back to Mexico.

I'm Indian (from India) and white mixed.

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Ivany2008
03/05/2024
02:19 PM
#36
No, but because my last name is so common where I live, I've had full on conversations with people before we find out that we aren't related, or they aren't related to other people I know with my last name.
SiO4
03/05/2024
02:32 PM
#37
KINDERFELD posted...
Also, when it was politically okay to blame illegal Mexicans for EVERYTHING wrong in America, I was called an illegal and told multiple times to go back to Mexico.


This is the Hallmark of modern Racism.

When people say anyone from Central America is Mexican.
That is all you need to hear.

Completely overlooking, all of the other countries.
Not to mention how much America fucked over Central America over the last 60 years.

/Rant
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bigblu89
03/05/2024
02:34 PM
#38
I guess.

I "Identify" as 50% Italian (mom's side) and 50% Puerto Rican (dad's side), but my last name is more attributed to people from Dominican Republic, so people assume I'm Dominican.

Every person I've ever seen (athletes, actors, etc) or met with the same last name are all Dominican, so I understand why.
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Prestoff
03/05/2024
02:37 PM
#39
All the time unless the person is smart enough to ask for my last name. 3/4 Vietnamese and 1/4 French. Filipino or Mexican are the two that people assume about me because I have big eyes for an asian.
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hitokoriX
03/05/2024
02:41 PM
#40
Puglia77 posted...
Some Indians thought I was white, then other times I get asked if I'm from Guyana or Trinidad. My dad's side of the family is Indian from Trinidad. Other Caribbean people definitely recognize it when they hear my accent.

I've gotten Italian before, my mom's side of the family is PR and Ecuador.

I FOUND ANOTHER TRINI (kinda). But really, I'm ambiguously brown lol, I've gotten hispanic, latino, middle eastern, etc.
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vycebrand2
03/05/2024
03:03 PM
#41
FolkenRawr posted...
Lmao nope. I'm H-W-white
Same but my father's side is more prevalent. German, English. Mother is French and one of the native american tribes that live in Canada( I forget the name)
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sLaIn_f0x
03/05/2024
06:23 PM
#42
Usually get Indian (feather AND dot), Mexican or Lou Diamond Philips.

I'm Hawaiian/Chinese/Filipino/Caucasian.
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Iodine
03/05/2024
06:25 PM
#43
lolno im a dark skin black man.
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Glob
03/05/2024
06:29 PM
#44
People where I live often assume Im American. Youd think the accent would be a dead giveaway but apparently not.

I have, on rare occasions, also had people think that I was French or Italian in the past. The French one I can understand, because when they encountered me, I was speaking French to somebody else for a good chunk of the evening. The Italian one I have no explanation for.
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LightningThief
03/05/2024
07:01 PM
#46
I get called Latino, Hispanic, or Indian due to my hair often.

I'm black.
Ratchetrockon
03/05/2024
07:04 PM
#47
Sometimes. Depends where I'm at.
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SiO4
03/05/2024
07:15 PM
#48
bigblu89 posted...
I guess.

I "Identify" as 50% Italian (mom's side) and 50% Puerto Rican (dad's side), but my last name is more attributed to people from Dominican Republic, so people assume I'm Dominican.

Every person I've ever seen (athletes, actors, etc) or met with the same last name are all Dominican, so I understand why.


Di' Domenico.
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super_felicia
03/05/2024
07:38 PM
#49
The closest was someone double checking I'm half black I think they thought I was an Asian with the trendy curly hair going round but that was in highschool and the person was dumb lol
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Azn_Psycho
03/05/2024
07:40 PM
#50
While I expect to be mistaken with other Asian nationalities, it only happened once.

Somehow I have had people thought I was Hispanic or White. I really don't understand how I got mistaken for that second one.
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