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Old 09-23-2013, 03:42 AM
 
Location: Europe
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I don't know why anyone would think a Spanish person would look american but anyway.
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I'm flabbergasted.
Why? I don't find it that strange... there isn't a typical American look, you can find there people of every ethnicities, I am from Spain; white European, we are more or less the same as white Americans There are individual differences of course, but I would have been more surprised if I had Asian features for example.
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Old 09-23-2013, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada
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Why? I don't find it that strange... there isn't a typical American look, you can find there people of every ethnicities, I am from Spain; white European, we are more or less the same as white Americans There are individual differences of course, but I would have been more surprised if I had Asian features for example.
I'm not sure if you were directing any of that to me, but that's what I meant lol.
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Old 09-23-2013, 06:48 AM
 
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I'm not sure if you were directing any of that to me, but that's what I meant lol.
Ah sorry! I undesrtood you were flabbergasted about my anecdote and not about what the other guy said lol.
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Why? I don't find it that strange... there isn't a typical American look, you can find there people of every ethnicities, I am from Spain; white European, we are more or less the same as white Americans There are individual differences of course, but I would have been more surprised if I had Asian features for example.
I had a friend from Barcelona who lived for a few months in a hispanic immigrant neighborhood. She had the problem the local hispanics would speak English, assuming she was American and non-Hispanic, to her when her English wasn't very good.

The biggest thing that would be southern Europeans stand might be dress sense, but there's enough overlap in style that many could pass for Americans.
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Old 09-25-2013, 04:14 PM
 
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There is a forum online where people guess you ethnicity.

Lots of the time these guys are bang on.

My self I have dark brown hair, dark eyes, strong jaw, unique phenotype and they could just not guess it.
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Old 09-25-2013, 07:33 PM
 
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I'm Salvadorean American and traveling abroad a few times and around the US, it is funny how people have perceive me from different countries.

In the States people have assumed that I am either Thai, Indonesian, Mix of African American and White, Cambodian, or Filipino. Even Latinos have mistaken me to be Asian.

In Canada, people assumed that I'm from Brazil or from the Caribbean.

In Europe, They have assumed that I'm Bangladesh, Indian, Moroccan, or Egyptian or that I'm from England.

In Asia, Everybody assumed that I'm Thai or Cambodian or Indian .

But in all of those places most people think I'm Canadian. But they are surprised when I tell them that I'm American and then tell me that I don't act American at all.
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