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Visiting here in Spain, we are often mistaken for British lol. That is a surprise. I thought our trademark cargo pants were a dead giveaway. Not that many American tourists in this part, I guess.
I have often wondered what facial features differentiate Americans from white Europeans. There is something but what?
Obviously I don't know you, but maybe you all are of British stock and retain many of your British features, despite being American?
For instance, Mike Myers just LOOKS very English/British to me (even when he's not playing Austin Powers, lol). He's actually Canadian, but I was not surprised at all to find out that both of his parents immigrated to Canada from England.
I ,a Jersey girl,do not share much in common with someone who lives in Oklahoma,Alabama,or Oregon.
Compared to a European, African, or Asian, etc, you do. All nations have some amount of micro-cultures within them, it doesn't necessarily mean they don't also have a shared national culture. People in England think they don't have much in common with people in Scotland, Wales, or Ireland. And they are very different. Yet there is also undoubtedly a "British" culture too. America is indeed a melting pot, with lots of different cultures, but having lived in another country for 8 years and watching the US from the outside, there is definitely an distinct "American" culture too.
Visiting here in Spain, we are often mistaken for British lol. That is a surprise. I thought our trademark cargo pants were a dead giveaway. Not that many American tourists in this part, I guess.
I have often wondered what facial features differentiate Americans from white Europeans. There is something but what?
There is nothing because 'white' people of all nationalities all have a multitude of different shaped and sized features!
Visiting here in Spain, we are often mistaken for British lol. That is a surprise. I thought our trademark cargo pants were a dead giveaway. Not that many American tourists in this part, I guess.
I have often wondered what facial features differentiate Americans from white Europeans. There is something but what?
Reminds me of an old newspaper article I read about a Colorado sheriff talking about all the Missourians that were pouring into his state right after the Civil War.
He said he could easily spot them with their slouch hats, unkempt appearance, rags that they wore and the numerous guns each one carried. He said they all had the same stare, like a mountain lion eyeing its prey.
Visiting here in Spain, we are often mistaken for British lol. That is a surprise. I thought our trademark cargo pants were a dead giveaway. Not that many American tourists in this part, I guess.
I have often wondered what facial features differentiate Americans from white Europeans. There is something but what?
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Originally Posted by Julio July
Obviously I don't know you, but maybe you all are of British stock and retain many of your British features, despite being American?
For instance, Mike Myers just LOOKS very English/British to me (even when he's not playing Austin Powers, lol). He's actually Canadian, but I was not surprised at all to find out that both of his parents immigrated to Canada from England.
The 2020 census only lists one line of "origin" per race.
I'll likely just put "American". There isn't room to list more than one origin, and even if there was I'm not going to sit there marking 1/8 this 1/4 that.
So you can't tell a white person who is native to Britain from a white person who is native to Spain? Or you mean to tell me that on average, you can't tell, say, an Italian from a German just by looking at them? I guess you think all white people and every nationally and ethnic group in every part of Europe are physically indistinguishable, huh? You're probably also the type of person who thinks everybody who is Asian looks Chinese.
So you can't tell a white person who is native to Britain from a white person who is native to Spain? Or you mean to tell me that on average, you can't tell, say, an Italian from a German just by looking at them? I guess you think all white people and every nationally and ethnic group in every part of Europe are physically indistinguishable, huh? You're probably also the type of person who thinks everybody who is Asian looks Chinese.
Of course you can't! I've never heard anything so daft in my life! I personally have been taken for Croatian, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Scottish and Welsh! You tell me what 'special' features I have that only 'English people' have? I would be interested to hear it?
American people mostly share the same culture, language, mentality and values. This makes "American" an ethnicity in my opinion. So, what kind of ethnicity American is? Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc?
So what about Central and South AMERICANS? And let's not forget those pesky Native Americans who were the one and ONLY American before they got "redistributed".
Ethnicity is ancestry so you can't create it although you can have an "identity" and culture.
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Not that many American tourists in this part, I guess.
You're probably also the type of person who thinks everybody who is Asian looks Chinese. 
