Do you ever get your ETHNICITY mistaken...?

[Guest smile-jw]

I've never got it mistaken, but some people say I have a "korean and white" look. who knows. XP

[Guest auroralbutterfly]

I'm Chinese, but when I was younger, people thought I was either Vietnamese or Chinese.

Now, it's either Korean, Japanese, or Chinese and less of Vietnamese..

[taewoorizip]

I'm mixed Native American and black, and one day in Chinatown this lady starts talking to me in Chinese.

XD LOL...

Also, on two occasions, people spoke tagalog to me and I was like "???????" They thought I was Filipina.

[Guest <3 for six seasons]

Yes, i've been mistaken for being italian and being an

asian american. but somebody came close in guessing my

ethnicity, but he said i was 100% German, which isn`t true

cause i`m british-german. HAHA. ;D

someone even said i was greek. like, DUH?

[Guest heidi81]

People have asked me if I'm Korean, but usually they can tell I'm Chinese. Or they're just more inclined to guess Chinese since that's the most common Asian race in New York City.

[Guest pandapplejoyce]

I'm full Chinese.

But these people mistaken me as either phillipino, korean, japanese, or mexican?!

O_O I don't know, I'm probably the darkest chinese girl on Earth!

I do swimming and I can get very easily!

Oh welllllll.

[Guest ninjuh]

ROFL. i havea round face so some ppl say im korean;

i hang out with a lot of viets so some ppl think im viet ;

i dress fobby so some people think im japanese ;

but some other people say imchink.. which i am xD

idk i guess it depends on other ppls experiences nd yeahh..

[Guest iLOVEYB_x]

happens all the time. i'm Lao/Thai/Chinese (but you can say im Lao with those mix) but i ALWAYS get mistaken as Filipina, Cambodian, full chinese, Korean, and Puerto Rician. im kinda used to it but the whole Korean part was SO random.

[Guest pink lemons.]

people never think i'm black.

i mean sure im mixed with a shtload of stuff, but they never assume that it's blk im mixed with.

they assume its rican, or honduran or dominican, or this other ethnicity...guyanese or something.

[Guest x0_tiKKi]

I'm Viet.

People always ask if I'm Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. Viet does come up once in a while though.

[Guest she-smiles]

i get korean & vietnamese a lot.

just b/c my college has a lot of them.

and recently, i encountered a caucasian student in the elevator.

here's how the convo went....

him: are you chinese?

me: no.

him: mandarin?

me: *this guy's stupid* no.

him: cantonese?

me: *ok, this guy's really stupid* no, mandarin and cantonese are chinese languages.

him: oh. korean?

me: *YAY elevator door opens*

idk if he was being serious or really stupid, but it's a good thing i left before he could make an even bigger fool out of himself.

*sigh*

[Guest ikookie]

its worse than my ethnicity....cos im asian, people think i am an international student

this man once said to me 'wow you have very good english for an international student' hahaha

[Guest kcee_catastrophic]

i've been mistaken for native american (i am mixed with it but you REALLY can't tell) & puerto rican.

someone also asked me if i was mixed with asian.

i don't look any kind of asian 0__o

[Guest esayel]

Man.. when I was younger, I used to get these all the time:

- Chinese

- Japanese

- Half White/Half Chinese

- [White] Mexican

And I've also had those people who've said, "I have no idea what you are. But I KNOW you're not asian, black, russian, etc etc etc."

But i'm filipino! Funny thing is, I live in the bay area... home of the filipinos ;

[Guest KawaiiMelanie]

I'm Korean but everybody just assumes all Asians are Japanese.

It's soooo annoying. >.>!!

When they say I'm not Japanese, then they go Chinese, and then go way down the list of Asian ethnicities until they reach Korean.

[Guest melOng-xP]

YES YES YES YES.

EVERYONE THINKS IM CHINESE WHEN IM KOREAN

[Guest stevenn go rawrr]

people are suprised when i say i'm half vietnamese~

[Guest pinkmafia]

im half chinese, quater vietnamese and quarter filipino.

i get mistaken for being pure filipino or vietnamese. but most of the time i get mistaken for being mixed caucasian and asian. i dont know how thats possible when i dont have an ounce of caucasian blood >_>

[Guest Belleeza]

people confused me as a chinese,philipino and thai ppl~~~~

im just a plain malay girl~~~

[Guest Jnybou]

Oh yeees a lot . . .

People thinks that I come from West Indies but I come from Guinea(Africa) and Polska and they don't belive me just because it's an uncommon "mixage" -_________-