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What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

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  • #11
    Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

    Originally posted by Quarteria
    Another friend who I've known for 16 years fairly recently said, "You're Romanian, right?" *sigh* No, but, close.
    Romanians have big eyes.



    Oh and he has a long nose too.


    Oh and I've mostly been called "Russian". This has nothing to do with my ethnic appearance though since I look typically "Caucasian".
    Last edited by skhara; 04-22-2006, 07:42 AM.

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    • #12
      Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

      Originally posted by skhara
      Romanians have big eyes.



      Oh and he has a long nose too.


      Oh and I've mostly been called "Russian". This has nothing to do with my ethnic appearance though since I look typically "Caucasian".
      Yeah, I've been called Russian too by people who knew I spoke the language. ehhh.

      Other than that people here still come up to me a try to speak Spanish. I say "Ala verga cavron, yo soy Armeniano, no pinche Mexicano". Also, I often get confused for an Italian/Greek and once for a Persian.

      P.S. I was kidding about what I reply, I don't actively look for fights.

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      • #13
        Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

        Originally posted by karoaper
        Other than that people here still come up to me a try to speak Spanish. I say "Ala verga cavron, yo soy Armeniano, no pinche Mexicano".


        Now that you mention that, I do remember this "Hispanic" woman, years ago comming up to me and my brother, and started speking spanish at us. We just stared bewildered at her than at each other. I kept saying "We don't speak Spanish". "I don't understand." "No comprende". She just kept babling.

        Then, my brother who interned in California recently, said people always came up to speak Spanish to him. It didn't help him any that he grew himself a his black beard, and having spent the whole summer out there he got a decent tan as well.

        Also, I often get confused for an Italian/Greek and once for a Persian.
        I've heard Italian once. Also been mistaken for Persian by a Persian.

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        • #14
          Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

          Russian..romanian..xxxish

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          • #15
            Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

            Originally posted by ddd
            Russian..romanian..xxxish
            This Romanian thing is common I guess. It seems Americans subscribe to the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle when it comes to georgraphy. When I got here, I heard there was an Armenian family which owned a gas station. I enthusiastically enter the station wistling one after another Armenian song in hopes of playing a trick on the owners. Nothing. Turns out they're Romanian. *sigh*.

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            • #16
              Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

              I've been called everything but Armenian. I've been mistaken for Greek, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Italian, Russian & Iranian.

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              • #17
                Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

                Originally posted by Quarteria
                I'll bite, what accent do you have, CrotchRocket?
                I dont know. I know its different because i can tell the rest of my family has this kind of accent that is different from mine. I guess because i left Armenia when i was 6 and started talking a different langauge it kind of mixed it up a bit. I dont know i would say it sounds kind of French, i dont care, but girls love it.

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                • #18
                  Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

                  Well, I think, "Armenian" is just so not in the vocabulary of the average American that they hear the three sylables and the "-nian" suffix that in their brain, they automatically switch to something they know, a more well known country, Romania/n. I think that's what happened concerning my one friend.

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                  • #19
                    Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

                    Portugese, Italian, xxxish

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                    • #20
                      Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

                      Originally posted by jgk3
                      Portugese, Italian, xxxish
                      I guess you did not inherit your father's Swiss genes.

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