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Randy D

Do people often mistake your ethnicity? ~


  I have a co-worker who is of Arab descent, but there are some people who encounter him for the first time and think that he is Latino. He said it's been happening to him for most of his adult life (he's about 40 years old now.)





Posted - March 29, 2018
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  • 1713
    A lot of people ask me if I'm Chinese, which I'm not.
      March 29, 2018 6:25 AM MDT
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  • 53502


      By the way, are you Chinese?
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      March 29, 2018 6:29 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    No - nobody has ever shown the slightest interest in my "ethnicity". 
      March 29, 2018 6:58 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I have been taken for Polish, German and Italian. 
      March 29, 2018 9:52 AM MDT
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  • Well, I once got asked if I was Filipino...

    I think some people just don't know how to pin down my ethnicity. They act like they've never seen a biracial person before (which I suppose is possible).
      March 29, 2018 10:00 AM MDT
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  • 508
    No but people have asked me if I was from Eastern Canada, because apparently I have an Eastern Canadian accent. My dad also had that happen to him as well.
      March 30, 2018 4:49 PM MDT
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