Nationalities/backgrounds you've been mistaken for

[Mikado]

Im French Canadian, but, several times Ive been scolded by older Italians ...and weirdly, it was the same thing, nearly word for word: "You should be ashamed of yourself, nice Italian boy and you cant speak Italian!!!" @_@

[TheGreatPretender]

Originally Posted by Rock Princess

nope. I'm christian

I thought you once said you were Jewish? http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/...ew#post2531669

"I want to be:
-a better Jew
-a music teacher
-accepted in to a *really* good college."

[TheGreatPretender]

Originally Posted by Mikado

Im French Canadian, but, several times Ive been scolded by older Italians ...and weirdly, it was the same thing, nearly word for word: "You should be ashamed of yourself, nice Italian boy and you cant speak Italian!!!" @_@

Lol I feel that way around my dad's side of the family. My cousins are taught Italian in the friggan kindergarten and are fluent in it yet I'm half Italian and I don't know one word of it.

[Michael [hXc]]

Originally Posted by TheGreatPretender

Lol I feel that way around my dad's side of the family. My cousins are taught Italian in the friggan kindergarten and are fluent in it yet I'm half Italian and I don't know one word of it.

if you know any French at all, Italian is quite similar.

[Kazza]

I am Latina but my skin is 'too fair' for being one (one of my former bosses said so). I get confused with being European and no one can figure out my accent either.

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally Posted by TheGreatPretender

I thought you once said you were Jewish? http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/...ew#post2531669

"I want to be:
-a better Jew
-a music teacher
-accepted in to a *really* good college."

Ooooh, snap!

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally Posted by Kazza

I am Latina but my skin is 'too fair' for being one (one of my former bosses said so). I get confused with being European and no one can figure out my accent either.

Do you tok lok dis?

[Kazza]

Originally Posted by Czas na Zywiec

Do you tok lok dis?

I dun't thin so

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally Posted by Kazza

I dun't thin so

There was this commercial I used to watch when I was a kid, and the woman has the thiiiiiiiickest accent. Her line was "Do you have insurance on this car," but coming from her, it was more like "Do you have eeeeeeenshuuuureeeence on theeeeese car?!?"

[Kazza]

Originally Posted by Czas na Zywiec

There was this commercial I used to watch when I was a kid, and the woman has the thiiiiiiiickest accent. Her line was "Do you have insurance on this car," but coming from her, it was more like "Do you have eeeeeeenshuuuureeeence on theeeeese car?!?"

I don't think it's thick, I spread it thin like frosting.

[TheGreatPretender]

Originally Posted by american non_idiot

if you know any French at all, Italian is quite similar.

Yeah my dad said Spanish is too.

[Ohio8]

Over the past few decades I've been mistaken for Jewish. I doubt that any of my ancestors were of the Jewish religion, or of Middle Eastern ancestry.

[biffbronson]

I've had more than a few instances of people thinking I was of Middle Eastern ancestry, apparently because I have a fairly dark complexion. Hair quite a dark brown.

[Ohio8]

Last summer I walked past a hot blonde who was in her early 20s, who was sitting in a car parked outside the convenience store near my house. She said "Ah so" as I passed her, meaning that I looked Asian to her.

[Ohio8]

Originally Posted by Ohio8

By "insinuated" I mean making quick yet bigoted remarks. A couple of weeks ago I showed my brother a picture from my dad's side of the family, and he said that the people in it looked Indian. I'd post it but it's faded (although you can make out the faces).

This is the picture.