Has anyone ever mistaken you for another race?

[LostInAnomie]

For some reason, I get told that I look Asian quite a bit. It's odd that a person of German, Irish, and Swedish descent gets told he looks Chinese or Samoan about once a month.

[KitchenWitch]

1. Not me, but my husband does all the time.

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. I look Latina or White or Native American, apparently.

[wildhorses]

3. yes eom

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Before I started growing my hair out...

Sometimes folks thought I was male.......

But I've never had anyone think I was another, or different, race than I am......

:shrug:

You must look pretty exotic! :hi:

[LostInAnomie]

12. How could anyone as dynamically gorgeous as you...

... be mistaken for a man!?

I personally don't see how I get mistaken for Asian. I do have skin that looks a little more tan than most white guys, and I have dark straight hair, but that's where it stops. :shrug:

Who knows?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Aw, you're too sweet!

When my hair was shorter, and from the back......I could have looked like a man, a little....

Tall, fairly wide shoulders, no sign of tits.......:shrug: = male!

Go figure!

Thank you for the really lovely comment!

:hug:

[eyesroll]

5. Not me, but my dad used to pass for Hispanic...

He's fluent in Spanish but he's an American of eastern European descent.

One time we were in a car dealer, about to drop maybe $12,000 on a car (early-mid 90s), and nobody would give him the time of day.

We realized later it was because my dad was wearing a shirt with Spanish on it, and the dealership employees were being bigots.

[graywarrior]

6. Native American.

[AlCzervik]

7. i got a tickert the other from a chp officer, he wrote in O in the race box

"Other"?

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. But I hope you've come in peace.

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

49. i thought maybe it was "O" for Owesome, probably not though.

the worst part---after he handed me the citation i actually said "Thank you" :banghead:
and then had the most unpleasant internal dialog with myself--"Nice going shit head, maybe you want to service him later?" Flipping Idiot!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Someone once told me I looked like a member of the human race

I quickly set them straight.

[jobycom]

11. That's NEVER happened to me. nt

[TimeChaser]

9. Often, yes

I've got some Native American heritage, and my skin's a few shades darker than most of the other people in my immediate family. I get asked if I'm Asian or Spanish often. More recently, someone thought I was a native Hawaiian.

[jobycom]

10. Hispanic, a few times, if that's considered a "race." Especially by cops.

I've been profile stopped in Louisiana for looking Hispanic and having Texas tags.

[u4ic]

14. Never

I'm too pale to be mistaken for anything but Caucasian.


Ethnicity? Yes. I'm often mistaken for French, I'm told, because I gesture a lot.

[Tyo]

15. Yes, people keep asking me if I'm Norwegian

Must be the accent.

[GirlinContempt]

18. Are you white?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. All the time.

I've been mistaken for black, Arab, Hispanic and Native American.

[GirlinContempt]

17. No

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. No...

I'm fairly pale, light-brown hair, green/hazel eyes, and my facial hair is reddish. I've been told at various times that I looked Irish, or German, or French, and got mistaken for Dutch in Amsterdam until I spoke, which I guess means that I look like a fairly generic Northern European.

[BlueStorm]

20. In the Hispanic area of my town (my sister lives over there)

I get people speaking Spanish to me before I even open my mouth.

I have to tell them that I don't speak Spanish, lol!!

How can I possibly look Hispanic? I mean I am Sicilian, French and Dutch.

Blue

[donheld]

21. One time I was accused of being part of the

Human Race :D

[Karenca]

22. Latino, but I'm

light skinned Caucasian.

[Hosnon]

23. Depends on what you mean by race. I am Scottish and often get mistaken

for one of German descent.

[Zookeeper]

24. No. n/t

[Pierre.Suave]

25. I had a lady come up to me and start speaking German

Luckily I know german, so I could answer. I told her I was not german, but american. her reply, I looked german.

[trackfan]

26. I'm Italian, and have been mistaken for Mexican and Black

even though my skin is very pale.

[Buddyblazon]

27. Though I'm Irish...

believe it or not...a few times when I was younger and out at the dance clubs...dancing with a baseball cap down over my face...I was mistaken for black.

It happened several times...and it was by black women.

Not until we'd leave the club...would they realize under a street light...that I'm a white guy.

I have no idea how...but they would tell me I "moved" like a black guy.

I know I can dance...but an Irish guy mistaken for a black guy? C'mon.

[hedgehog]

38. A lot of Irish people have "black" features-

One of my daughters has hair that's way curlier than her black cousins', and I have a "black" nose! Except for skin color, we could pass from the neck up. On the other hand, as my mother says "Irish lasses, they have no asses!" It makes it tough to get pants to fit properly!

[ForrestGump]

28. Hispanic

And I'm about as Anglo as it's possible to be.

[reyd reid reed]

29. Happens to #1 son all the time

People think he's Hispanic or Asian or whatever.

When he was about four, I actually had someone come up to me in the grocery store and compliment my generosity for adopting a child while I was still so young myself. I mean, I know he doesn't look like me, but geeeeeeze....

:wtf:

[dropkickpa]

35. my daughter is often assumed to be

white and chinese. She has dark hair, dark almond shaped eyes, so I guess I can see it a bit :shrug: . I don't really care, and she really couldn't give a damn, but I think it is a bit funny (not ha-ha funny) that people are always "searching" to categorize others.

[hedgehog]

39. True story - a friend is a Tuscarora married to a blonde woman.

They have two children born to them who look like him and two adopted kids that look like her. Guess which two strangers assume are adopted?

[pitohui]

30. several times been mistaken for french and someone started speaking french to me

it has also happened w. german but i do have some german ancestry, no french anywhere tho

[hedgehog]

41. We were in Alsace and Germany near where my husband's

family came from. People kept coming up to him asking for directions thinking he was a local!

[leftofthedial]

31. people often mistake me for

an asshole

[REP]

32. BiRacial (Black/White, White/Chinese) or Irish

I am about as white as person can be and I have black hair and hazel eyes. I can almost understand the being mistaken for Irish - I'm actually Welsh and Lithuanian and look very Welsh - but I don't look Irish aside from the coloring, and I'm sure I don't I look black/white or white/Chinese (not Asian - it's always Chinese!) but I'm always flattered when anyone thinks I look like I could belong to their group!

[krispos42]

33. Someone once thought I was an Israeli Jew

I have no idea why, except that he's a devout Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia and I'm the offspring of a very lapsed Catholic Italian and a very lapsed Lutheran German-English-Cherokee and I don't partake in the debates between him and my Catholic I-went-so-seminary-school-for-a-year-before-joining-the-Army boss.

Wow, that's a hell of a run-on sentence. But I digress.

I mean, this guy follows the Biblical eating code that Jews follow. No pork, no shellfish, etc. Makes ordering pizza hard because the pepperoni and sausage contains pork!

And right now he's fasting for Lent or something. No meat or cheese. And he fasts every Wednesday, too.

[BreweryYardRat]

34. Not me, but some bigoted fuck once thought my Dad was an ethnic Jew.

Dad is of French descent, and has no features one thinks of as stereotypically "Jewish."

No idea where the hell that came from.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. people constanly thought i was hispanic and i have even been scolded for disowning my culture

till i got my nosering.

[leftyclimber]

37. My mom

who is half-Norwegian, half-Scottish, had a Japanese person run up to her, excited, saying, "Are you Japanese, too? Do you speak Japanese?"

If you could see my mom, you'd know exactly how odd this conclusion would be.

When I was acting, I used to have directors tell me they couldn't use me because I didn't look "American enough." :wtf:

[applegrove]

40. I've been called Moroccan.

[LostinVA]

42. My sister gets mistaken for Hispanic quite a bit

They even listed her as that on her military ID card once.

Our background is Irish and Sicilian. She has REALLY curly hair, and becomes very, very dar in the sun. When they lived in Germany and would visit Italy, Italians would just chat with her in Italian. I, on the other hand, have insane Mick hair and will tan, but it's always a ruddy tan.

[nonconformist]

43. Hispanic. I'm 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Cherokee... but I have a Hispanic step-father

And plenty of Hispanic relatives, including a sister and brother... so it's not completely out of left field.

[blockhead]

44. Neanderthal.

no, wait, thats a species.

[Lyric]

45. No, but my Dad and my ex-husband had that happen a lot.

My ex is 1/4 African American, and we lived in a place with a large Hispanic population, so people often mistook him for Latino. My Dad was just insanely dark-tanned. He was a Carpenter, working year after year on roofs and job sites--that tan never faded, not even in the winter. His legs were pasty white, though. It was funny. :)

[AllegroRondo]

46. During a marathon, people thought I was only running the half

and were surprized when I didnt turn around at the 10 mile marker.

:shrug:

[swag]

48. Native American, Vulcan

Nobody who is Native American or Vulcan ever mistook me for one of their own.

[Arger68]

50. Yes, I've been accused of being Swedish when

I'm really a mix of Norwegian & German. It's devastating.:yoiks:

[zanne]

51. Israeli

I've been told that by people who've been to Israel. I'm French-Canadian, so it's quite a stretch.

[Rising Phoenix]

52. A lot of people have thought me native american

and I'm all Irish....I had LONG black hair in high school.

[xmas74]

53. No.

I'm what most would refer to as "lily-white". Everyone thinks I'm lying when I inform them that I am part Crow a few generations back.

[Left Is Write]

54. No.

[MsKandice01]

55. No, but people often assume I'm bi-racial...

Because of my hair.

[El Fuego]

56. I'm SO white that white people think I'm another race.

I'm of Finnish descent, and when I was a little kid I dreamed of going to Finland just to find people as white as me. :(

[Crabby Appleton]

57. does the human race count?