What ethnicity/nationality have you been mistaken for?
What ethnicity/nationality have you been mistaken for?
Mena
I can pass as white about 75% of the time. People get confused when they hear my last name
Estonian
none, proud pardo
Polish
I want to kill myself
I was mistaken as a local when in Prague. A man came up to me speaking Czech at the station and I sperged a little.
Japanese
what's the difference tho? most europeans are literally the same except meds vs nords
nords are like chinese for me, they all look literally the same
In real life? Don't think it counts, but I when I lived in Germany and Denmark locals would often start out conversations in the respective languages, so at least I didn't stand out too much.
Online? Anything from Spain to Finland, depending on the picture.
I am Italian and Portuguese and I get Indian or Iranian a lot.
I have a german last name and I've been asked a few times in my uni, usually in the first days of class on each semester, if I spoke spanish and was understanding the class.
>implying there's a difference
British, Italian, Belgian, Polish, Russian.
I don't mind it, especially when people say that I look foreign to them or a bit like a Westerner.
Mexican. I have brown hair and brown eyes and a farmers tan. Under my shirt I'm pale but just brown enough on my arms to throw some people off
when I was in Israel I was mistaken for a Russian
Pajeet and Arab.
I'm a Brazilian pardo + Iranian mongrel.
Jew
russian
british
both times by immigrants, at a summer job i had when i was 15, my hair is greyish brown and i have green eyes so to them i guess i dont fit the gold standard for a swede
Jew in america lol
egyptian
people who don't know my ethnicity always guess Hungarian
I had a few Asian girls say I look French but I think that was bug autism compliments
Slovene, Czech and Polish
czech, german, dutch
Greek
I am not Greek
People thought I was an African-Amer*can, when I was in Canada.
Italian/Irish?
Why yes, people often think im Chadian, how did you know?
Czech
I've been described as looking English and Serb on separate occasions
People have confused me for being a Serb, Russian, German and French because I look like a generic white guy and almost nobody seems to have heard the Swedish language before
none, an austrian tourist told me i look like "very italian"
Jew
That's how I got my first job. It was a jewish company.
arab
indian
mexican
american
Iranian.
Finn and german
Southcringezillian
Spanish
Albanian
Italian
German and British
I get American quite frequently
r u Dua Lipa? asl?
When I went to see the family in Ghana with my mum as a kid people spoke to me in twi thinking I was one of them.
not me but my parents said they have been mistaken for Americans or Dutch, while they were in Greece
How does one get mistaken for an American?
turk/brazilian/mexican/latino/italian/greek/french
I was asked for a street address in Nantes, France (I was a tourist). Does that count?
>Non, mais m-moi, j'suis pas d'ici, désolé
German Austrian Dutch
by being a loud rotund cunt, one presumes
common tourists probably
Indian. Some people have said I looked arab as well. One Persian girl said I looked Persian. I am Mexican
Indian, Swiss, Colombian, Mexican, Tamil, Guatemalan, Afghan, Kyrgyz, Taiwanese, Bulgarian
About all of them, strangely, Armenian came up often. How are Armenians?
I get italian extremely frequently but have also gotten spanish, french, and latino before in person.
I'm german portuguese and british isles and look like the iberian supremacist in pic rel
russian
We are loud and obnoxious for European standards but we aren't cunts, those are brits. Our tourists are usually among the better ones in yurop.
Spanish,hungarian,turk,paki
I get really tan in the summer and I live in the Southwest, so I get mistaken for latino sometimes.
you look straight up, unitedstatian
We just know how to have a laugh on holiday, why wouldn’t you make a mess of some foreign cunt has to clean it up?
just joking about stereotypes, the only americans I've met here were quite the opposite of that
Persian, Jewish, Italian, MENA.
yeah, you can really gauge the difference in passive aggressiveness between American and W European tourists. I don't think an American has ever been mean to me and I've met most of you while drunk and disgraceful.
Also Armenian.
my moms white from porto alegre
again that picture isnt actually me he just looks similar to me