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Anyway, are you ever mistaken for a race/ethnicity/ancestry that you are not?
I'm 75% Scandinavian (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, & Finnish) and 25% French. Unlike most Scandinavians, I have dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and an olive skin tone. Apparently, being one-quarter French was enough to give me all those features. Then again, it shouldn't be surprising because dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin, are dominant to light hair, light eyes, and "paper white" skin.
In tenth grade (I'm going to be in twelfth this year), I was in a special education class. This one guy would refuse to believe that I was white, and it really got on my nerves. Even after I told him my ancestries, he would still refuse to believe that I was white. He said that I was Mexican, so I'm assuming he thinks I'm Mestizo. I'm not Mestizo. Heck, I still could be Mexican though. Not all Mexicans are dark-skinned, dark-eyed, dark-haired Mestizos. There are Mexicans of European descent. But guess what? I'm not Mexican; I'm American. I'm a European American of Scandinavian and French ancestry.
A girl also said that I looked Puerto Rican, which is understandable. Most Puerto Ricans are of European descent, mostly Spanish. I'm a quarter French, and France borders Spain. Lots of Spaniards are olive skinned, brown-eyed, and dark-haired. But I'm still not Puerto Rican.
*sighs*
What about you?
People think I am hispanic quite frequently, which is odd because there is none of that in my DNA, while I even have a bit of eskimo from somewhere.
I got stopped in Texas one day, and the cop asked me: are you Korean, White or what?
I am 61% white, 20% native american and 19% (asian, middle eastern, etc)
:-)
I find it interesting that the Census Bureau counts people of Middle Eastern or North African descent as White. How many people actually believe that Middle Easterners and North Africans are white? We almost always believe that only European Americans can be white, but apparently that's not the case.
Because a lot of North Africa = arabs, who are considered white esp. if they were originally from the caucasus region...
That is not true. When I was in College, 10 of our classmates were from Saudi Arabia, and they were as black as Mike Tyson.
That's why the new Census form will not longer consider Middle Eastern and North Africans as whites, they need to fill a different box, asking for their particular race.
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I get a chuckle out of this one- my father is German (Jewish), Cherokee, Lenape and Muscogee... I know this because I traced the family tree and was surprised by what we really are since my dad has always been such a white racist though technically he's not all that "white". He also stays dark year round. The funny thing though is he is very anti-Mexican-- yet he looks like the average Mexican man I saw on a daily basis in the Southwest. Not only in facial features but in the common dresscode & mustache of Mexican immigrants. lol
I am sorry, but it makes me giggle when racists turn out to be Jewish. This is happening a lot in Poland, where people hid their background after WW2. NYT did a story about 5 years ago about all these Polish white supremacists who were finding out that they were actually Jews and even had family murdered during WW2.
I´m Portuguese. Generally, Portuguese/Spanish/French recognize me as portuguese. British people think im Italian (or French), Americans think im Italian, Germans think i´m Turk/Maghreb and Hispanics think im Spanish.
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Then again, it shouldn't be surprising because dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin, are dominant to light hair, light eyes, and "paper white" skin.
He said that I was Mexican, so I'm assuming he thinks I'm Mestizo. I'm not Mestizo. Heck, I still could be Mexican though. Not all Mexicans are dark-skinned, dark-eyed, dark-haired Mestizos. There are Mexicans of European descent. But guess what? I'm not Mexican; I'm American. I'm a European American of Scandinavian and French ancestry.
lol
