Do you ever get your ETHNICITY mistaken...?

[gyeonxx123]

for me it's chinese

maybe it's becasue all the people i meet

thinks asia only has one country.

i would be like i'm korean and they would be like.

oh, whatever, okay your asian... o.0

[Guest Rena23]

I've only had one random person guess and she thought I was Mexican.

I asked my friend and she said just white.

I am half white so whatever but I'm not Mexican at all.

[Guest marco.polo]

LOL yeah all the time. I'm Filipino so a lot of people ask if I'm mexican HAHA . Sometimes people can get it right sometimes they don't. I guess it depends on how often they're around a certain race of people. For example, I couldn't really tell much difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people. Ever since I entered high school (I'm a Senior now) I started hanging out with more Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people - since then, I've been able to tell who belongs what race pretty easily.

[Guest miss wonderland]

i'm chinese but

ppl have thought i am

-korean

-japanese

-filipino (when i was really tan)

... i guess it's not that bad

[Guest *frutti]

viet, philipino, korean, japanese, thai, half-white, NATIVE AMERICAN (LOL ann...)

i'm chinese btw. and i dont think i've ever gotten chinese.

LOL i have a friend who's 1/2 chinese, 1/8 british, 1/8 jewish, 1/8 indian and 1/8 jamaican

...must suck for her when people guess her ethnicity lol

[Guest Kate]

I'm Korean but people always ask me if I'm Chinese or Viet.

Even a lot of my Chinese friends think I look Chinese. xD

But then, Koreans can always tell that I'm Korean. [it's one of those radar things I think.]

[ssmilebigg]

Yes.

people think that im chinese which i am not..

funny..

[Guest green_T]

Yup, I'm half indo (not chinese indo btw) and half white but people always think I'm Chinese. Like the other day I was sitting on a bench and there was an old Chinese lady sitting next to me reading a Chinese newspaper and she started talking to me in one of the Chinese languages pointing at a Chinese ad in the paper. But I told her I can't speak that language and she asked in English where the suburb was in the address of the ad. Haha.

[Guest fobbiyo]

YES! ALL THE TIME!! It includes being Filipino or Cambodian. O_O I have dark skin, so I guess that's why people mistaken me often. :|

One time, my Spanish teacher asked me what language my parents spoke and I said "Vietnamese". And then he said "AND?" I'm like "That's all." He keeps on bugging me with that until this other guy said "Tagalog"

[Guest candy77]

ALL the freeeaken time!

but i guess i'm use to it now.

so far no one has gotten my ethnicity right so if someone asks i just tell them "yup" and don't even bother...not like it matters anyways.

[Guest tashaisasian]

Yes. Apparently I look super Korean (I'm Vietnamese) - Vietnamese people AND Korean people think I'm Korean.

Like one of my Vietnamese friends usually greets me with a "You look so Korean today." instead of a hi. And this lady at the Korean store started speaking Korean to me and I was like awkwardly staring at her. So weird. This is how I actually met someone:

Huy (aka him): Are you Korean?

Me: No.

Kien (some other guy): No but she looks like it huh?

[Guest kpop_haha124]

I'm Korean, but when most people look at me, the first thing they say is either chinese or filipino....

i'm like "T.T"

when i was in elementary school ppl thought i was those or japanese, they never thought that i was korean.. anything but korean...

they said that cuz my skin was a bit darker..=[[

[Guest cjgohan2003]

Last night I got "korean and japanese" from two filipino taxi drivers. It might be my redness due to alcohol that makes people think that way err. Yea, but under normal circumstances, I usually get filipino (they say the nose is a giveaway, lmao).

[ra123]

I'm Korean, but I get mistaken for:

caucasion mix or Japanese. I hate the fact that I don't look homogeneously asian.

[Guest ichikawaii]

XD im on vacation in vietnam

and everyone thinks im korean XD >_>

[Guest forgivenx]

Chinese, Korean, Japanese...basically, Asian countries.

I'm actually a Singaporean

[Guest simple*love]

I'm chinese and people sometimes ask if I'm mixed in somewhat spansih or something o_o

[Guest SHAWNIE BOY]

No one believes I'm full Korean.....

and they can't decide what other mix I am though.

[Guest 可愛い]

people think i look hapa. im not . both my parents r 100% filipino like me.

[Guest pleen]

I'm filipino, usually recognized as that. Though I got called chinese a couple of times.