What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

[theServant]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

(in order of assumptions)

Lebanese
Turkish
Persian

[Jen]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Here everyone thinks I'm Irish, just because of the red hair...they don't even know that Ireland doesn't even have that many red heads...Belgium has definitely more...when they hear my accent, they guess I'm British (yuck...hate their accent) or German.

In Brazil, ppl thought I was American (they have this assumption that everyone here is tall and white) and in London I was told by a lot of ppl I look Polish (have no clue what they look like).

No one ever guessed I was Armenian...everytime I say my dad is Armenian they look at me surprised as if they knew how an Armenian look like (I had this guy who was hitting on me at the time, ask me in what part of Africa Armenia was located...AFRICA...tsk tsk...I obviously didn't even give him my phone number...)

[Fedayeen]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Muslim

because there are lots of idiots in Russia and America

If that counts

[alby]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Very interesting question.
I have never been recognized as Armenian because I am very white on the blondish side with blue eyes. I have always been mistaken for French, Irish or German, that is until I speak!

[Mireille]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Most of the times i get Spanish or Lebanese.

[spygrrl]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Italian, Greek, Spanish...they arent very creative...

[ArmenianKid]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Albanian
Greek
Persian
Russian

[Esther]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Mostly Italian and Spanish... there was one time when someone asked me if I was Indian... I think he watched too many Bollywood movies, because, seriously, I am really really pale with dark eyes and dark hair...

[sev_zeytun]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

When I'm dark: Mexican or Middle Eastern
When I'm white: Romanian, American, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian,and Macedonian one time by a Macedonain immigrant on a cruise.

just a question: I spoke to this Slovanian immigrant and I told her that i was armenian and she automatically assumed that i spoke russian. Also happens with a lot of russian speaking people that i first meet. does this happen to you guys a lot?

[Crimson Glow]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Tie between Italian and Greek. I've been accused on several occasions of looking like a young Robert DeNiro. No one's heard of Armenians around here. Even Romanian, Albanian, etc is probably out of the realm of most of their knowledge.