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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 02:42 AM Original message |
Have you ever been mistaken for another ethnicity? |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. No, not me |
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Crazy Guggenheim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm Italian but can pass for Greek, any Middle-Eastern. When I was |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Once. Hispanic: Mexican-American |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. When my wife and I were walking around in Bloomsbury |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
5. I can't think of a time |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. not likely, scots/german here... |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yes, Asian. |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. Nope. I'm so pale I couldn't be mistaken for anything but Anglo |
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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:30 AM Response to Original message |
9. I have basically the same background as you, |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's funny that you mention your brother's name... |
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tjwmason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 04:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. The only one has been French |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
12. Me: Very Pale White With Black Hair, Greenish Eyes; Mistaken for: |
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Peter Frank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 05:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. I'm Italian/Irish... |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 05:36 AM Response to Original message |
14. I've been mistaken for Puerto Rican |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. All the time. |
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Left_Winger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
16. The same thing happened to me |
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WilmywoodNCparalegal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
17. Apparently, I don't look Italian |
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Lavender Brown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:39 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. same here |
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jmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 09:17 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I hate when people do that. |
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BamaGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
18. Not often |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. I am pure hispanic - Dominican and Puerto Rican |
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DanCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
20. I have been mistaken for looking like the lead singer of BNL |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
21. I'm German-Irish |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
23. NO, I'm as white as a sheet most of the time. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. No, I'm as white as they come! |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
26. I'm not really sure what my ethnicity is, |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. Mistaken for Irish many, many times |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
28. Not me, but someone was very nasty to me about my hubby |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
29. no chance |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
30. I am Puerto Rican occasionally |
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BobEPeru (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
31. People tend to think I'm either Italian or Jewish |
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Magrittes Pipe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
32. No. I believe most people have pretty good "whitedar." |
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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
33. nope. I can't even tan. I just burn. |
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WeRQ4U (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
34. Oh hell no. |
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