What country people thing you are from

[Nessa 23]

I don't know why, but nobody ever asked if I am mexican, or whatever that speaks spanish, because my accent is a bit different, so I've been asked twice if I'm from russia, and one girl said I am tall and I don't have dark skin and that she could never tell I'm from Brazil (people have this idea in Brazil we have only indians and ''african-brazilians'').

Anyone else experienced that? Being confused with someone from a totally different country all the time?

EDIT: what country people THINK you are from, my bad

Edited December 4, 2006 by nessaandcharles

[sparkofcreation 0]

People normally think Gareth is from Australia, I think because the only foreign accent they can identify is "English" and they know he's not that, so they make a wild guess at an English-speaking country that isn't the US/Canada or England and come up with Australia. Yeah, usually Australia, then England and Ireland probably tied for 2nd, and almost no one ever guesses Scotland, which is the correct answer (although his accent is a little weird, which is probably part of the problem).

Edited December 4, 2006 by sparkofcreation

[Nessa 23]

you know what is weird, I can tell if a person is australian or british or american, just by listening to them for less than a minute, how can't americans tell the person doesn't come from a country that doesn't speak english at all???? I am brazilian and I can tell.

[peejay 327]

My wife has dark hair and dark eyes. Even though she is ethnic Russian she often has Hispanics talk to her in Spanish mistaking her for Hispanic. My wife has commented to me that it happens frequently here in Houston.

[Nessa 23]

My wife has dark hair and dark eyes. Even though she is ethnic Russian she often has Hispanics talk to her in Spanish mistaking her for Hispanic. My wife has commented to me that it happens frequently here in Houston.

see, nobody ever tried to talk to me in spanish, I'd probably say ''sorry I don't speak THAT''. Once I had a woman talking to me in german because she saw me saying gesundheit to charles lol

[Ladylethal 12]

People think I am local. But it could be 'cus I am living in Puerto Rico. Then when they hear me speaking English, they get confused 'cus I don't look or sound american, british or australian or any other english speaking country. So they go "oh, now I see" when I say I am brazilian".

[Kez/JWolf 6]

People always think I am Irish or English... but I come from Scotland.. When I tell them I am from Scotland they say "Oh is Scotland not just part of ENGLAND???" I think the look on my face answers that question for them...

Kez

Edited December 4, 2006 by Niagaenola

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

you know what is weird, I can tell if a person is australian or british or american, just by listening to them for less than a minute, how can't americans tell the person doesn't come from a country that doesn't speak english at all???? I am brazilian and I can tell.

I've traveled the world quite a bit and I'm usually a good educated guesser.

[Scott & Lai 12]

People are always guessing Lai's home country wrong, and that includes other Asians. Vietnamese people try to talk to her in Vietnamese, Philipinos talk to her in Tagalog...she's been mistaken for Japanese....only once since she arrived here has someone outside of our church (which has a lot of Taiwanese) or a Chinese shopping center has someone actually guessed correctly and spoken to her in Cantonese, and that was just a couple weeks ago

Then, last year when we visited her sister in Vancouver, an Indian man thought I was from India

[Michele&Omer 0]

When we were in Aruba for our Honeymoon, the locals there tried speaking to my husband in their language or spanish but he is Turkish, but he has black hair and brown eyes and had a really nice tan!!!

Michele

[Nizzy 1]

People mistake me for Greek, Hispanic, Pakistani, Arabic, even Caucasian. They think my husband is Italian.

[Jenn! 918]

Many people when seeing my husband and I together think we're Brazilian. They hear us speaking Italian and maybe they think we're speaking Portuguese??

[Fandango 1,440]

I've been mistaken God knows how many times when I lived in Miami...mainly Spanish, Cuban, Brazilian....there were a few that seemed off the wall, but I can't remember now.

[Scott & Lai 12]

People mistake me for Greek, Hispanic, Pakistani, Arabic, even Caucasian. They think my husband is Italian.

Is that Caucasian as in from the Caucasis Region, or simply "white", as the term is often used here?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I'm American, but people always think I'm from somewhere else. They say I look "exotic". Not sure why.