Do you ever get your ETHNICITY mistaken...?

[Guest yukari x star14]

i got into a small argument with a caucasian girl who kept saying i was chinese

XD

im 100% japanese

[Guest twist&fall-]

yeah, i think thrice.

one.. they thought i was malay. ( cause some malay here are fair. well, actually they're mixed. not sure. )

anyways..

two.. my teacher thought i was a korean -__-;

three.. someone, i forgotten who, thought i was japanese too. funny.

i'm a chinese btw.

[Guest ___♥miss.raelyn``]

People who meet me for the first time,

who haven't talked to me yet {so they don't know my obsession with kpop}

usually think I'm Chinese or Japanese. Korean never ever came up

when people first try and guess where I'm from.

.. except Koreans, they always know that I'm Korean, like strangers that are Korean too.

O_O

[Guest vindemi]

I've been mistaken for Japanese in Japan (I know every-day-life Japanese)

Halfer or Korean in the Philippines (I can ONLY read korean, but I am illiterate. My korean friend taught me haha.)

Chinese/Mixed in Hong Kong (my mom is the chinese looking one...)

In Canada, all of them.

I'm filo-chinese.

No one guesses that I'm Filipina the first time. Unless I open my mouth and talk =| or I hang out with someone they know who's Filipina.

And the way my name is spelt doesn't help either haha.

I agree with julz16. My skin color is light olive.

My eyes are a bit slanted up but its not noticable unless you see my profile.

And it is true, other Filipinos can't tell that I am one, but sometimes other Asians get my ethnicity right xD

[Guest k i k a i]

hahaha, yup ALWAYS & EVERY TIME.. really seriously.. there were only 2 people in my whole life, who guessed right from the start or even at all, where I actually come from or my parents since I was already born and raised up here (germany)..

but people always think I'm Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Viet and so on, but never guess right.. so yeah, what's left?

............ *DING DING DING DING* ............ CORRECT, I'm a Flip (Filipino)..

but yeah I don't really look like a "typcial" Filipina, so I can't blame people.. so I just find it amusing and sometimes an honor to be istaken as for ex. as a Korean.. but yeah my great grandmother was Chinese and so I got the looks, or at least the eyes xD

[Spiritm]

all well I get white person all the time. Sorry but that isn't even a frickin ethnic group O>O

or I get italian/portugese

isn't the contrast hilarious xD

[Guest OBSCURITY xxx]

hahhha this is a funny thread

butttt im vietnamese and ive been mistaken for every

asian race there is possible -_____-;

first off, i have huge eyes. and ive been asked if i was chinese (no offense)

i think every american assumes all asians they see are chinese xD

im been asked if i was japanese. cuz i dont look like most asians X____x

i could be mixed for all i know xD

but the area i live in there are a lot of cambodian people so i get

mixed up as that too ><

[Guest KOGEPANN;)]

I get mistaken for a caucasian, or caucasian mixed with asian.

I don't understand that when I'm full chinese

[Rolos]

Yup get mistaken for being mixed a lot. Don't mind though cos I can't tell people's ethnicities either.

Someone thought I was Spanish once... HUH?

I scored 2 on this: http://alllooksame.com/

hmm

[Guest yuki fiore]

i am korean but people always think im chinese.

why? i dont know...

[Guest ChunnieBunnieLover]

yeah.. kinda make me wanna smack their heads

[Guest sweetVisions]

last semester, some Indians in my classes thought I was Indian (as in South Asia).

Nope, African-American/Native American.

It was pretty funny/weird because that's the first time someone ever confused me for another ethnicity.

[Guest janelleski]

one of the officials in my uni thought that i'm korean. and she thought that i cannot understand filipino so she tried to converse with me in english. wahahahaha! i plan to pretend that i'm a real foreigner but i cannot control my laughter

[Guest thejam89]

one of the officials in my uni thought that i'm korean. and she thought that i cannot understand filipino so she tried to converse with me in english. wahahahaha! i plan to pretend that i'm a real foreigner but i cannot control my laughter

This happened to me when I was in primary and high school. The teacher thought I was foreigner and she kept on talking to me in english the whole year haha

[ohatoms]

People think I'm chinese but I'm not.

Well I have a lil chinese blood in me

but people would usually think I'm

fully chinese.

A friend of mine also said I looked like a Japanese

because I have small eyes =O

[Guest brokendreamsxO]

im mostly chinese..

but some people think im spanish o_o"

& then there was this guy who thought i was japanese x]

[Guest xTwilight]

Why does it matter? It's not like you see white people complaining about...ethnicity.

[Guest smile*]

i get mistaken for being japanese [although im taiwanese/chinese] quite often.

people have randomly started conversations in japanese before but then i appologize saying i dont undertstand.

[Guest Onkochishin]

Yup. People usually think I’m 100% Dutch, but I’m not. I’m only half Dutch and I’m half Serbian. ^^ I do think they doubt my ethnicity when they see my surname, though '.' Ohwell. xD

[Guest nanan]

i'm hmong and i get mistaken for:

- being NON hmong

- american [as in white]

- twice for being mexican