Guest naracute Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I get mistaken for eurasian most of the time despite the fact that I'm malay, well not entirely malay; I'm mixed. But that does not means I'm eurasian. I'm asian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c i e l` Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I'm mixed chinese, vietnamese, laotian, and cambodgian. People sometimes guess I'm chinese (but not everyone) and...I was mistaken as korean and once japanese. I don't really look laotian and cambodgian after all ^^" People that aren't used to asians ethnicities mistake a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest usan Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 im chinese. mistaken as thai, japanese, korean and viet. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^.^ Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I'm mixed, so its never right. But I've been mistaken for being FULL: Spanish, Mexican, Vietnamese, CAUCASIAN (A Vietnamese guy thought I was white at first o.o) Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Hawaiian, Korean (an older lady was speaking to me in Korean. I kept trying to tell her that I wasn't and I didn't understand her, then she asked if I was Mexican. I said no again so she just asked me "where" I was from. Then she tried so hard to speak broken english and made all these hand gestures just to tell me that I was beautiful.) I have a tan but during the winter it goes away. Skin color can really throw people off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eatadandelion Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 yes, all the time :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyT. Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Im Viet.. and people mistaken me for Cambodian or filipino. Only 1 person out of my whole entire life thought that I was korean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ddang Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 People think I'm: 1. Korean 2. Japanese 3. Chinese I've never had anyone guess my ethnicity correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest merrygolds Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 All the time! I'm Chinese, but almost everyone thinks I'm Viet or Filipino when they first meet me. It's my eyes that throw people off. Once, I was mistaken for Mexican and Indian. One person thought I was Korean because of my last name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jaeka Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 i'm mixed, like really mixed, haha, but the thing is, i've been asked if i was korean before. O____O i don't even look korean. x] it was from there year 8 boys at school. they started shouting racist things towards me and at the end i heard, "are you korean!?!??!?" i just ignored them! and when i'm tanned with the sun like now, i always get asked if i'm filipino! but i'm not that either ¬___¬ but when pale people always go.. "i couldn't help but notice you're slightly tanned all year, are you halfcast?" and i explain my grandparents roots and they go, "omg.. you're mixed... i wanna be mixed..." XDD but that kinda clears the ethnicity mistakening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mely_sa Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 lot's of people think me as japanese..haha i don't where it's come from..!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charri Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 yes my friend's little brother is absolutely convinced I'm Korean, for some strange reason. and i've been mistaken as Japanese a lot lately while in China :T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ramology Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 my actual ethnicity is chilean but i get im an arab basically i have been mistaken for all the middle eastern countries :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iota Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 I'm Taiwanese. Everyone seems to think I'm mixed. This is how my conversation with my friend's dad went. (He's Taiwanese too) Him: So where are you from? Me: Taiwan. Him: Where are your parents from? Me: ... Taiwan ... Him: Where's your mom from? Me: Taiwan Him: Where's your dad from? Me: Um ... Taiwan? Him: Oh really? I thought you were half-Caucasian ... Me: - _ - " I don't know, I guess I have kind of Caucasian features, I'm pretty tall for an Asian (5'6") and I was pretty young when I moved to Canada so my English is better than my Mandarin. And a bunch of people have told me I look Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chibibaka Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 XD I'm vietnamese and I'm always mistaked as Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. Even the viets don't think i'm viet at first XD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lammh87 Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 i'm singaporean chinese but i got mistaken as japanese, korean, malaysian and china chinese before because of my single eyelids and im super fair...haha... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reneegade Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 im filipino and almost everyone thinks im korean or japanese. even filipinos think that. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Harbl Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Not sure if it counts but someone thaught i was french once, i also get asked if i'm jewish quite allot, but that could just be because of my surname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mani4ever Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Oh yeah big time! I work at the airport, and I guess people have plenty of time to discuss and guess what ethnicity I have XD Though I'm pakistani, people have guessed: Arabian, Libanese, Greek, Italian, South American.... are there more? (O.O) i think, it's because I don't look like a pakistani :blush: But it's fun, when they're guessing and i'm like shaking my head and say "no....no.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airporte Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 ^ I'm the opposite. Whenever someone asks me and I tell them, they always go something along the lines of: I thought you were Pakistani or somethinglol. My one friend asked one of our half Pakistani friends if I looked Pakistani, and he said no. It's probably because of my more Caucasion-looking features and dark skin. D8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mkayimcherry Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I'm Vietnamese, however, I get mistaken as Chinese most of the time. I've had people both Vietnamese AND Chinese mistake me as Chinese. I was just sitting there and some Chinese person comes up to me and starts talking to me in Chinese xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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