CALMATE! Ay, Chihuaua!

[thongd4me 69]

What nationality/language group is your NON-USC mostly mistaken for?

Not really a nationality but the generic Hispanic language group.

In the retail store she works in many automatically talk to her in Spanish.

She tells me that pisses her off, I AM NOT SPANISH I AM THAI!

I say, "calmate, cariño."

Edited November 12, 2010 by thongd4me

[Ban Hammer 13,149]

i'll have to tell nessa about this thread

[Kang Lang 7]

i actually get mistaken for a latina all the time made worse by the fact that i do speak spanish ...(i the usc am 1/2 chinese 1/2 white) my husband always gets asked if he's cambodian when people see him he doesn't get upset but he does say "oh no, i am thai". but on the phone i get asked if it's an indian last name, since there are not as many letters in it as alot of thai names. only 10 letters.

Edited November 12, 2010 by Kang Lang

[nab 74]

ooooh this is hot button with me because i have, how to put nicely...? nether-region-circular-cavity neighbors (just one set of racist jerks without lives who like to stir the pot) who like to refer to my husband as 'that Iraqi man' and have accused him of many things that aren't even possible.

some days i hate people {sigh}

Edited November 12, 2010 by nab

[thongd4me 69]

ooooh this is hot button with me because i have, how to put nicely...? nether-region-circular-cavity neighbors who like to refer to my husband as 'that Iraqi man' and have accused him of many things that aren't even possible.

some days i hate people {sigh}

With the US as the #1 attraction for foreign immigrants,

it's a wonder how unsophisticated we are as a group.

My first wife was Japanese; one time at the supermarket

I overheard a grandmotherly like lady ask her regarding

our two daughters, "Are they adopted?"

[Mithra 1,185]

My husband is always asked if he is French or people assume he's French. It's the Egyptian accent with the "zh" sound as in "zhis" or "zhat". He couldn't possibly be Arab because Arab accents don't have those sounds. Of course, he doesn't have a typical "Arab" look so I guess I understand the confusion.

[thongd4me 69]

My husband is always asked if he is French or people assume he's French. It's the Egyptian accent with the "zh" sound as in "zhis" or "zhat". He couldn't possibly be Arab because Arab accents don't have those sounds. Of course, he doesn't have a typical "Arab" look so I guess I understand the confusion.

I went to the American University of Beirut (as an exchange student for my junior year)

and I knew an Egyptian guy that sounded like Mary Poppins.

I asked him where he studied his English and he admitted to having a British nanny.

[Nikita2Charles 32]

My wife gets mistaken at time for Guyanese or Trinidadian

[nab 74]

{snipped}our two daughters, "Are they adopted?"

oh i have weird sense of humor at times... would have been hard not to say (while looking wildly around and grabbing the girls closely) Shhh! no i stole them!!

My husband is always asked if he is French or people assume he's French. It's the Egyptian accent with the "zh" sound as in "zhis" or "zhat". {snipped}

my husband also has that "vine" when saying "wine" though that is fading and his "z" is pretty much gone now. when we first began speaking ages ago he sounded like a cross between a frenchman who was going to interrogate me using german techniques

one of his friends tried to fool me once ... yeah, right! not even in the beginning when we had only spoken couple times could i be fooled! i knew my man!

i think he looks more native american because he could pass for one of my male relatives

[scandal 951]

My wife is Thai, and was taken once by a Thai waitress at a Thai restaurant as being Vietnamese. She was quite offended. I giggled.

A friend of mine is married to an American-born Latina from So Cal. She is often taken for Southeast Asian. (reverse of the OP). She's cool with it. Her eyes/cheekbones do suggest Asian ancestry although she has none.

It's all good. I love the American melting pot.

[Ban Hammer 13,149]

nessa's often mistaken for german, once for russian.

[sachinky 464]

I, the non-USC, am often mistaken for a Mexican.

Habla Espanol? No, senor.

One drunk black dude at Port Authority tried to convince me that I was a Jamaican. Truly.

Edited November 13, 2010 by sachinky

[thongd4me 69]

I'm the USC and people sometimes mistake me for European (or midwestern).

I seem to have buried any Noo-Yawk accent through frequent contact with foreigners

over the years as I have moderated my accent to be a clearly understandable one.

Although I was born near NYC and lived there for most of my adult life (excluding travel),

most people who ask me where I'm from register surprise when I say New York.

Edited November 14, 2010 by thongd4me

[trillium13 84]

My husband gets asked all kinds of weird things, but never German, interestingly. The other day someone asked if he was Australian.

[chri'stina 190]

My husband has been mistaken as hispanic by Spanish speakers! At least 3 times that I can remember, and it just happened very recently again. They start talking to him in Spanish.