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I've been mistaken for German. I am not, but I can see why: you might assume my surname is German, and I look like I could be. But I am not and my surname is not German. I am 1/2 Ukrainian, 3/8 Italian, 1/8 Polish.
I don't know if this falls into it. I'm black, but sometimes people ask me 'where are you from?". Like....hmm?
Do you have an accent or give off maybe a Latino/Caribbean or African vibe? Some people might think you immigrated here, etc as there are plenty of black immigrants. In fact, all the black kids in my high school were children of immigrant parents (Nigerian, Jamaican, Guyanese, Ethiopian), and they all had very different cultures compared to mainstream black/African-Americans.
In the past, people often thought I was British.......Mom said the only people who think that are those who don't know any British.
These days, though.......................
...........................I was doing a commercial infront of a TV camera in a film class. Advertising a cola in a western drawl. Things were going perfect until, on just one word, my accent uncontrollably switched to a British one and then back again.
Today, in the Texas heat, I was shopping, carrying my loot back to my car. With that load on my shoulder, my focus on maintaining an even pace to combat the heat, I was thinking that I must be marching......and that's something I've tried not to do, to hide my military background.
So, I'm figuring I need to add another character in my ready selection, if someone ever asks me where did I serve, I'll answer something like, in a Brit accent no less, "Colonel Pickering, 55th Bengal Lancers"......
..........answering the question in that I'm actress who has learned her part well and not, necessarily, a vet.
People always get me confused! My mother is french/ethnic german but has Jenn Aniston's coloring with green eyes and her mom had dark brown hair Mediterranean tan skin and brown eyes and her dad was from Australia. My dad has a John Cusack like coloring but with Green/blue eyes and was Irish, German, Cree Native. His Grandfather was an orphan who looked like he was Spanish or Italian. People always think I'm Jewish or Russian and Italian but I've gotten Lebanese, half Asian, Israeli, half Mexican, Greek, Uzbek, Slovak, etc,. I have very pale slightly olive skin tone like Olivia Wilde's and have Green eyes that change to dark olive to grey to Emerald, dark brown hair, high cheekbones, slightly hooded almond eyes and a bigger nose. Lol
A lot of people don't know what different nationalities look like so I wouldn't be surprised what some people think. Most populations have differences and variety in their looks. People have too narrow views on certain populations. There are always people in populations that will make people scratch their heads because they deviate a bit from the average. Also people rely too much on certain actors' looks and think they represent the majority of their countrymen. Many actors/models are not typical and stand out from the norm.
People always get me confused! My mother is french/ethnic german but has Jenn Aniston's coloring with green eyes and her mom had dark brown hair Mediterranean tan skin and brown eyes and her dad was from Australia. My dad has a John Cusack like coloring but with Green/blue eyes and was Irish, German, Cree Native. His Grandfather was an orphan who looked like he was Spanish or Italian. People always think I'm Jewish or Russian and Italian but I've gotten Lebanese, half Asian, Israeli, half Mexican, Greek, Uzbek, Slovak, etc,. I have very pale slightly olive skin tone like Olivia Wilde's and have Green eyes that change to dark olive to grey to Emerald, dark brown hair, high cheekbones, slightly hooded almond eyes and a bigger nose. Lol
I am white and when I taught school in a nearly all Black district, I noticed the students often described people by the color of a celebritie's skin. I've never heard another white person I know doing the same. To me, John Cusack and Jenn Aniston are the same color. If a person is Native American the way some of my relatives are, I might say something along the line of their skin is as white as mine. Someone once referred to me as Native American for no reason other than they thought I had high cheek bones. I've made minor forays into my ancestry and if there is anything there, I've not seen it. It wouldn't matter to me one way or another.
My ancestors were English, Irish, and Scottish.
Until I was seven years old I had a typical English name.
Then my mother got married again to an Armenian guy.
Evidently that made me into an Armenian.
In an anthropology class, the professor made me stand up before the class as a prime example of the Armenoid sub-race.
She was Jewish but married to an Armenian man.
She liked Armenians.
I got an A in the class.
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they think i am a dominican. nope. both of my parents are BLACK.
