Which nation would you physically fit in with the best?

[Barreldriver]

I'll get the ball rolling, I've been told Ireland, Northern England, Germany, and Switzerland.

Your turn. :D

[Ulf]

Deitschland.

[Thorum]

Sweden, Germany or England.

[The Lawspeaker]

I usually claim that I am Danish (sometimes Belgian) when I am somewhere were Dutch seem to have left a reputation (at least the younger people) and I always get away with it. So probably The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark although at first sight people abroad usually think that I am English because I barely seem to have an accent.

[Sol Invictus]

France, Italy, Spain, and Britain. Out of all those, I would say France. :D

[Barreldriver]

On a few other forums some few members said French (around Normandy and Belgium) or Norwegian, I was compared to a French comedian on AF, I could see a resemblance to the Frenchie.

[Loddfafner]

Denmark is the country where I was most surrounded by people who looked like me. It is the only place I have ever been where I could not look over a crowd.

[Sally]

I'm plain and ordinary enough to blend into any northern European nation, I think. For instance, I live in Finland, and even though I don't look Finnish, I'm always addressed in Finnish and assumed to be Finnish. However, I have primarily been told that I look typically English.

[Barreldriver]

^ I thought the Dutch ruled the height department.

[Jamt]

Sweden, Denmark and Holland.

[Loyalist]

The British Isles, particularly Scotland and Ireland. Aside from that, I don't think I'd be too out of place in the West Germanic countries either.

[SwordoftheVistula]

When I don't have a beard, people usually think I am from Norway or Sweden. When I do have a beard, I get Ireland mostly. German people often think I am from Germany and try to talk to me in German even in other countries, if it's a place where German tourists are common (examples: Pompeii, Kennedy Airport in NYC). In England also people would often think I was from England. One old guy in Slovakia thought I looked Italian, not sure how he arrived at that conclusion.

[Elveon]

Deutschland, Ireland and France

[Gooding]

People have told me that I would fit the best in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, or the Scandinavian countries. Even after I tell them that my name is Old English, many people tell me I don't look English at all..:confused::pout::shakefist:grumpy::laugh::

[Óttar]

I'm an Atlantid, so I'd say Wales, my ears look a bit Alpinish however.

[YggsVinr]

I would say that I wouldn't be too out of place in France:p Though I have been mistaken for being of Irish descent on more than one occasion :shrug: I've also gotten German and Russian before (but as far as I'm concerned I don't count that last one because I was speaking French and some idiot thought I was speaking Russian and therefore concluded I was Russian :confused: ).

[Lyfing]

I've been told that I could be "from anywhere in Northern Europe. Perhaps mostly Northern Germany, Eastern England, Scandinavian countries."

Later,
-Lyfing

[Bloodeagle]

I think that I could fit in anywhere the vikings plundered.
I like to think I would fit into Scotland quite nicely, parts of Ireland and England.

[Electronic God-Man]

I may be able to fit into parts of (south)western Germany and probably Switzerland, but the place I would definitely physically fit into would have to be the British Isles. I've had a few Irish people say I look just like their Irish friend so-and-so and in Eastern Germany some of the Germans thought I was English without hearing me speak English or my American-English accented German.

However, I have never been anywhere within the British Isles.

[Tabiti]

I guess I'm not quite typical for any nation, but won't look strange anywhere in Balkans, Eastern and parts of Western Europe.

[Útrám]

West-Germanic countries and probably the centre and south of Scandinavia.

[Psychonaut]

When I was in France, everyone assumed that I was French. I was rarely ever spoken to in English unless I initiated the conversation. I'm sure I'd also fit in fine in most of Canada. I'm not sure about the rest of Europe. I wasn't mistaken for an Italian when I visited there. I might be able to pass of in England or parts of Spain and Germany, wherever vaguely Atlanditish people who look like me (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=47413) live. :shrug:

[Treffie]

I'll get the ball rolling, I've been told Ireland, Northern England, Germany, and Switzerland.

Your turn. :D


Why just northern England? I think you'll pass for any part of Britain tbh.

[Atlas]

I've been classified here as Atlantid as well, so I guess NorthWest France where I live or else Ireland, England, the British isles you know. :)

[Loki]

Most people in England mistake me for a native English person judging by looks alone. Then when they hear my accent they obviously know otherwise. I've been mistaken for Dutch as well in Netherlands, I guess that is only natural. I would be too pinkish of skin, and hair/eyebrows too light to be mistaken for a southern European.

[Äike]

Finland.

[Skandi]

British isles, anywhere else and I would not fit :)

[Vulpix]

Scandinavia. I've been confused for Polish in England, though I don't look Slavic at all.

[SuuT]

Scandinavia and Finland. I may as well be a space alien in south Florida, I'll tell you that.

[Vargtand]

I get accused of being Greek so I don't know, I think I am most suited to live deep in the forest.

[Galloglaich]

I have been asked on multiple occasions by visiting Scandinavians if I was Norwegian, so I assume that would be a good guess. Another lady specifically asked if I was Faeroese, so that's another possibility. As Bloodeagle mentioned, I'd probably fit anywhere the Vikings plundered. I'd like to think that I'd fit well in the Western Isles of Scotland, seeing as so much of my ancestry goes back there (referring again to that whole "vikings plundering thing"). Like Sally said, I'd imagine I would fit well anywhere in Northern Europe.

[Lady L]

On Skadi sometime ago Prince Charles (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=149) said this about me...
I think your wife could be from Scotland or Ireland. :) Who Knew' :p

[Beorn]

Western England mostly. I would also say Northern Ireland, Western Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland.

I have been told by those who live in the Iberian peninsula that I would blend in rather well there too.

[Barreldriver]

Why just northern England? I think you'll pass for any part of Britain tbh.

Some folks on other forums seem to think that the North of England is more Bruenn typical than the rest of England. I've also been compared to Welsh folks before. The majority of folks seem to agree that I definitely have a "British Isle's" look, and the other countries I'd fit into I would not be as typical in as the general British Isle's.

[Barreldriver]

I get accused of being Greek so I don't know, I think I am most suited to live deep in the forest.

Not my forest. :D My forest is for me alone. :D No touching my coyotes!:icon_yell:

[Absinthe]

You tell me! :D

In Greece, I am most often mistaken for northern European, English or Scandinavian, and people who get to know me assume because of my interest for the North that I have scandinavian blood.

In Sweden I asked and was guessed to be Russian :D, Romanian :D, Polish :D, English and Australian <--:confused:

I guess that because I don't have a typical mediterranean look, Greeks mistake me for foreigner whereas Northerners don't know where to place me:

not swarthy enough for the south, not nordic enough for the north...so they look towards the east :D:p

If you didn't know me, what would you guess? :)

[Gooding]

You tell me! :D

In Greece, I am most often mistaken for northern European, English or Scandinavian, and people who get to know me assume because of my interest for the North that I have scandinavian blood.

In Sweden I asked and was guessed to be Russian :D, Romanian :D, Polish :D, English and Australian <--:confused:

I guess that because I don't have a typical mediterranean look, Greeks mistake me for foreigner whereas Northerners don't know where to place me:

not swarthy enough for the south, not nordic enough for the north...so they look towards the east :D:p

If you didn't know me, what would you guess? :)

Certainly Balkan..I might consider you a Croatian or a Macedonian Slav, myself. You do, in my opinion, have kind of a Nordo-Mediterranid mixed look.:)

[Æmeric]

America. I don't look ethnic - Italian, Jewish or Slavic. Essentially I look like an Old Stock/Nativist Anglo-Saxon American with ancestors from East Anglia & the Southeast of England, the West Country, the West Midlands & Ulster. I have been asked a few times if I was Swedish (meaning of Swedish descent), which I'm not except for one ancestress 10 generations ago in New Sweden. It must be the Osteuropid in my taxonomy that caused people to ask that.

[jerney]

Fit in best? I don't know most people have guessed either Swedish or German. I've gotten Czech once, and I think Ukrainian, but for the most part I've just been lumped into various Germanic lands.

[Óttar]

Scandinavia and Finland. I may as well be a space alien in south Florida, I'll tell you that.

Not in the north i.e. Orlando.. I went to Old Town theme park up there and man, I have never seen so many pasty-faced, freckly, pink, red haired and blond people. There are a lot of Irish, Scottish and English derived people. There was even a shoppe, which made swords, daggers, and crests. It was amazing.

South Florida where I was born however is like Panama or something. All the Spaniards let loose all their slaves there probably just to piss off the British.

[Eldritch]

The country I would be the most confortable in would be Finland,

And to be more exact, the city of Helsinki.

And to be even more exact, the districts of Helsinki known as Hakaniemi, Vallila, Hermanni, Kallio, and Töölö.

[Ulex]

From reading this thread I can see that I am a happy man. Not only do I love Scandinavia, I am a Scandinavian and... I happen to live there. :D

When I'm abroad, people often believe I am Dutch. The reason may be the way I speak English. The Danish accent is quite different from that of the other Scandinavians.

[Inese]

Latvia of course and Germany , Sweden and Denmarky!! :D People in Germany dont think i am a foreigner when they see me because i am nordish and dont look very east european but they ask where i come from when they hear me speaking ---- you know i can speak fluent German but with some little mistakes and a very strong baltic accent!! O.o :rolleyes::coffee:

[Jarl]

Here, in the UK, I am almost always taken for a German, Dutchman, South African or Scandinavian (Swede or Dane). Several of my German friends initially thought Im Danish too!


East European or not.... sooo cool to be born a NordicK! ah ah ah! ^^

[Svarog]

i got absolutely everything, in France I got German and also told in a store we don't serve English people which was rather awkward, in Germany I got French, in Spain I got Danish but I guess everyone look Scandinavian to them who do not look Arabian, in Greece they were always correct and never missed, same in Hungary, in Russia they'd knew I am not Russian but would always miss the real nationality, but I look like a typical Serb so usually all of that is crap as people fluke without any background really.

[Beorn]

i got absolutely everything, in France I got German and also told in a store we don't serve English people

Really? Wow! What was all that about then?

[Svarog]

Yeah, in general I have rather bad experiences with French people, I guess they hate tourists, it would happen that they refuse to speak English, and I know they understand me but would start talking in French even tho I am clearly showing that I DO NOT understand them, girl in some bakery throw me some food on my table like when you would throw a shirt on a bed when you take it off and mumbled smth in French, so I refused to pay for it, which they did not have a problem with at all, weird way to lead a business, this what i mentioned happened in Caen, sorry if i misspelled the name of the town, I wanted to get a present for a friend and was gonna take him some guitar stuff so i entered the store and a pissed of girl told me she don't serve English people, so I was like, well I am not English, well, as soon as I spoke with my accent she knew i was not lying but still was rather awkward

[Freomæg]

I think I look Welsh. My fiance thinks Irish. I have hair and eye pigmentation that wouldn't be out of place in France or Spain, but my morphology is decisively Brunn-ish. I don't think I look particularly out of place in Holland, Germany and Austria either.

But I'm not a big fan of stereotyping. For example, a lot of people think that dark brown hair is more Irish than English, but forget to take into account the Pre-Germanic population of English lands who weren't completely driven out. Likewise with many Germanic countries. My mother has very dark brown hair and has brown eyes but is Dutch, and again, like me, looks morphologically Germanic and north western. It applies to so many countries, where anomalies in appearance don't necessarily indicate foreign-ancestry.

[Svarog]

I hear you mate but hair usually have absolutely nothing to do with nationality, like, my mother is a golden blond which is not typical for here, my dad have dark brown, i have blondish brown, just brown in the summer, my sister is light brown haired, hair colour depends on many other influences, sure,genes have smth to do with it, but nature/environment in some researches even diet in generally affects colour of the hair more, that is why people are born with one hair colour and change it naturally! 10 times during their life and in the end unless an ice cream truck hits you in your twenties you die with grays

[Tabiti]

i got absolutely everything, in France I got German and also told in a store we don't serve English people which was rather awkward, in Germany I got French, in Spain I got Danish but I guess everyone look Scandinavian to them who do not look Arabian, in Greece they were always correct and never missed, same in Hungary, in Russia they'd knew I am not Russian but would always miss the real nationality, but I look like a typical Serb so usually all of that is crap as people fluke without any background really.
When I was in Germany, even the turks talked to me in German, so I guess I look alright at all :D
Not that I look German, just turks don't accept me as "fellow-countrywoman", which is more than good ;)

On the other hand language they use to talk to you is not always due to your appearance. For instance, they've talked to me in English in some local resorts, but guess it happens to everyone, since the most tourists usually aren't Bulgarian. Last summer I was with foreign friends of mine, so I talked in English and some people decided I'm also a foreigner. "Don't talk to her in Bulgarian, she won't understand you. She's not Bulgarian" - a mother told her daughter in front of me. It was rather funny :D

[Svarog]

I have a racialist comrade from Chikago, who is Polish, that comes for visits every year at my place so we hit local pubs and whatnot, so it happens so often that people just talk to him in Serbian, they'd never guess he is a tourist at all, that is why i said that these stories are all funny to tell but have really nothing anthropologically important as people will recognize you as a tourist by your accent/language, cloths, behavior etc but rarely just based on a look and then they will fluke random nationalities, of course they won't say i am Somalian or Chinese as it is too obvious but between European nationalities you will get pretty much EVERYTHING the more you travel

[DarkZarathustra]

Surely England, Holland and Sweden.

[Jarl]

they will fluke random nationalities, of course they won't say i am Somalian or Chinese as it is too obvious but between European nationalities you will get pretty much EVERYTHING the more you travel

I agree that most of these guesses have to be based on stereotypes formed by media rather than some more concrete experential knowledge as many, if not most, of the people who guess have never been to the country which they suspect the foreign person is from.

[Barreldriver]

I'm starting to have another thought. More of a Welshish thought. Been photo browsing and found a good number of Welsh folk with a similar look as mine, and on AF one of the members claim to have found a Welsh twin of mine, and I'm finding a stronger genealogical affinity to Wales, and nearby regions of England and Cornwall, in fact some of this Welsh and Cornish blood is overshadowing my Northern and far Eastern English blood in numbers. Finding a lot of Wales, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, etc... after more studies in regards to my pedigree have been undergone.


Soooooo, hide your sheep? :P

[SuuT]

I'm starting to have another thought. More of a Welshish thought. Been photo browsing and found a good number of Welsh folk with a similar look as mine, and on AF one of the members claim to have found a Welsh twin of mine, and I'm finding a stronger genealogical affinity to Wales, and nearby regions of England and Cornwall, in fact some of this Welsh and Cornish blood is overshadowing my Northern and far Eastern English blood in numbers. Finding a lot of Wales, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, etc... after more studies in regards to my pedigree have been undergone.


Soooooo, hide your sheep? :P


Dude. You're so British Isles it isn't funny. Indeed, like Hugh Laurie and Louie Anderson, this is the only locale as to your lineage in which you could possibly be placed. :) - There is a distinctive look to the Isles that exists nowhere else on the PLANET! BE PROUD!!! :)

[Barreldriver]

dude. You're so british isles it isn't funny. Indeed, like hugh laurie and louie anderson, this is the only locale as to your lineage in which you could possibly be placed. :) - there is a distinctive look to the isles that exists nowhere else on the planet! Be proud!!! :)

give me your sheep!!!! :d

[SuuT]

give me your sheep!!!! :d


LOL. They're all yours, broder! :D
;):)

[Barreldriver]

LOL. They're all yours, broder! :D
;):)

:D They tastes good in my tummeh.

[SuuT]

:D They tastes good in my tummeh.


Just so that you know, you are atypical for what you have deemed yourslef as a Borreby: You are clearly of Brunnishr Preponderance with slight NordAtlantid influence. :) But that is I.M.O :rolleyes:...:D. :)

[Barreldriver]

Just so that you know, you are atypical for what you have deemed yourslef as a Borreby: You are clearly of Brunnishr Preponderance with slight NordAtlantid influence. :) But that is I.M.O :rolleyes:...:D. :)

I was going by Aggripa's classification, it was a tie between Bruenn or Borreby being the main component of my UP influence, the Atlanto-Med influence was clear given my indices. I personally am favoring Bruenn giving my overall impression, but my father is a Borreby in the trend of his mother, his father though a Bruenn, my maternal family is solid Borreby stock with the exception of Great grandpa Miller/Mueller who was Nordoid, hence where I chose the Borreby element for a time, given that I may have inherited the UP influence of the majority of my maternal kin.

Personally, I'm beginning to favor a Bruenn+Atlanto-Med/Atlanto-Nord. impression given what most people have suggested in my history among race and anthropology forums.

[Kempenzoon]

When I lived in Finland for a while, people kept mistaking me for a Finn. Even if I told them I wasn't, they wouldn't believe me. Granted, part of it might have been my long hair (I'm skinhead now, but had hair way past my shoulders back then) and my facial hairstyle at the time. I saw tons of Finnish guys with the same 'look' as me.

I don't know if it was a compliment or not though. :p (No offense to the Finns here, I love your people and your country)

[RoyBatty]

I have a racialist comrade from Chikago, who is Polish, that comes for visits every year at my place so we hit local pubs and whatnot, so it happens so often that people just talk to him in Serbian, they'd never guess he is a tourist at all

If he's from Chicago he is practically Serbian. There are loadssss of Serbs living there. :D

[RoyBatty]

I'll get the ball rolling, I've been told Ireland, Northern England, Germany, and Switzerland.

Your turn. :D

Portugal, Israel, Greece, possibly even in lighter parts of Iran.

[sturmwalkure]

I've been told Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, etc. I guess I'd be able to pass as a Europid Azeri, Georgian, Armenian or Iranian. But I think I look very Italian or even Portuguese or Spanish. I was even told Roma (Gypsy) but be mindful this was from someone who's aware of my racial views and was trying to 'discredit' me.

[Phlegethon]

Swarthies out! ;)

[RoyBatty]

Vot yoo don't vont ze Aryans / Iranians? Vere is ze problem Hans? :D

[Rainraven]

Pretty unexciting really, I generally get told that I look English or Dutch which is hardly surprising! :rolleyes:

[Brynhild]

I would be typically from the British Isles (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8894&postcount=1), although I was once asked if I was German. At the time I wasn't aware of my German heritage so I was rather amused.

My Southern European heritage isn't so pronounced and when the topic comes up, people don't usually believe it.

[Barreldriver]

^ You Engrish! :D

[Nationalitist]

Any Balkanoid nation.

[Mesrine]

You can only mentally fit in a nation.

[Beorn]

You can only mentally fit in a nation.

So a Native American couple could give birth to a blonde haired, blue eyed baby (or for this example we shall dub the typical "White person")...say four thousand years ago before any other race of man had set foot on North American soil?

[Mesrine]

So a Native American couple could give birth to a blonde haired, blue eyed baby (or for this example we shall dub the typical "White person")...say four thousand years ago before any other race of man had set foot on North American soil?

Exactly what I said, national spirit and soul has nothing to do with some physical features. Otherwise any white-skinned/blond-haired/blue-eyed Russian or American would be my brother, wich is obviously not the case.

[Beorn]

Exactly what I said, national spirit and soul has nothing to do with some physical features.

But my question wasn't aimed at discerning the collective mentality of a nation, it was wondering if people of a certain geographical area can produce with regularity, its next generation with completely different 'looks' from the one that sired it?

[Nationalitist]

Physical features? FUCK YOU

Nation has never been about phenotype. It is irrelevant. It's about national soul as it was said before.

[Mesrine]

it was wondering if people of a certain geographical area can produce with regularity, its next generation with completely different 'looks' from the one that sired it?

Well, not without the heavy immigration of different-looking people, that's for sure.

[Beorn]

Well, not without the heavy immigration of different-looking people, that's for sure.

So you'd admit that each geographical area has to a certain degree a "sorta distinct look about them"?

[Mesrine]

So you'd admit that each geographical area has to a certain degree a "sorta distinct look about them"?

It's always mutating, more or less quickly. Cromags settled Europe, then their asses were frozen to death, and we descend from post glacial Gravettian and Neolithic settlers.

[Beorn]

Is that a 'yes' or a 'no' to the question I asked? :D

[Goidelic]

Ancestry has everything to do with physically and mentally fitting in a nation not Nationality. Second comes your predominant ethnicity, phenotype and genetics, which are all correlated, but ancestry where your indigenous biological relatives have been longest and part of ethnogenesis, is first in my opinion. So the question really boils down to that nation has always been about phenotype, ancestry, genetics and is very relevant. I don't believe in a national soul. I believe in ancestry.

If we follow the logic that anyone can assimilate into any nation, then so can Papuans in Iceland, and identify as Icelandic indigenously/ancestrally and ethnically.

A person born in modern day Nigeria to indigenous Swedish parents will always be a Swede, never Nigerian, no matter how well he speaks the language, thinks in Nigerian, has Nigerian mannerisms, Nigerian dreams, adopts Nigerian customs and culture, as well as assimilates into Nigeria.

I think the whole citizenship thing is ridiculous, if not wholly European ancestrally based and being genetically indigenous to those countries.

London is almost 3/4 genetically mixed with Pakis, Indians and other non-Euros from the third world. These people all claim to be British, yet look different than "classic indigenous Brits" in 19th century photographs.

A 1/2 Greek and 1/2 Irish person, would be a Greek-Irish ancestrally, and ethnically either a Greek-Irish, Greek or just simply Irish depending on his ancestry degree, phenotype, genetics and ethnic-cultural affinity he has towards which side of the heritage whether he is more culturally Greek, Irish, or equally Greek-Irish; but if his ethnic affinity is more towards his Greek side and looks more Greek that is ancestrally based and has an ethnic-cultural connection in identifying oneself as far as ethnicity, regardless if he was born and raised in Papua New Guinea and went native with the Papuans.

A 1/2 non-Euro and 1/2 Euro would never be a European physically or mentally, neither would a 3/4 Euro and 1/4 non-Euro.

[Cato]

Anywhere in western Europe.

[Angantyr]

I do not have to answer this question. It has been answered for me by others many, many times. When I lived in the Ukraine, virtually everyone thought that I was Lithuanian...and the odd person thought I was Estonian.

It may have been the fact that I was a non-Russian, speaking Russian with an indeterminate accent, with very pale features living in the former Soviet Union, and in that context, a Lithuanian or an Estonian would have been much more likely than a Swede or a Finn.

My mother has usually been guessed to be a Swede on grounds of physical appearance alone despite a telltale Quebecois accent.

[Brännvin]

What is the proposal of the topic for the OP?

I am the average look inside my country and have no interest in fit in anywhere..

[Barreldriver]

Some people are making a bit too much of this, the whole point of this thread was to see, in a phenotypical sense, who would fit in best where based on their morphological traits. All in all, it was meant to be fun, not so much "serious", after all, since when has physical anthropology been "serious" in the past 40 years?

Some people just need to read the title of the Section the thread is posted in. It's in the Anthropology section after all.

[Brännvin]

^^
Yay, let me to say except my country, Denmark! :)

[Cato]

America, free of all but the barest hint of non-white influence. In other whites, like it used to be in the good ol' days. :D

[Gooding]

Northwestern Europe, as I mentioned earlier that people say I look German,Scandinavian,French, Dutch, or simply Nordish. In the United States, I look like an old time American from the Appalachian Mountains. I've already plastered my pic all over the place.

[quotablepatella]

Anywhere in the British Isles and maybe some other parts of Northern Europe.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae239/quotablepatella/IMAG0003-2.jpg

[Zardoz]

I've been addressed in German when visiting Portugal, the Netherlands and Russia. People just seem to assume that I'm German, it's kinda funny because I can only say a few words in German. :shrug:

[Steffan]

Sweden, Netherlands, Germany.

[Vulpix]

People who have any anthropological sense guess me as Swedish immediately.

[Baron Samedi]

France.

I have been told I look Norman/French by a lot of folks.... Of course I question their judgement, but I have an allure for France anyways, and certainly the language/smoldering women of dark desires :)

[Freomæg]

I had a strange one recently. I was told I looked identical to someone's south american friend Carlos. She was surprised I didn't have any south american in me. But then, it's not very meaningful is it. South america has a variety of ancestry floating around. Or perhaps there's something about my darkish Isles Brunn look that is sometimes mistaken for the mixture of genetics in areas of south america. I don't know. I've been told I look everything from Irish to Danish to Australian to Spanish to... you-name-it.

[Revenant]

Scotland, Ireland or England I think. I have been asked by Italians if I'm Italian too, so maybe there as well.

[quotablepatella]

The strangest guesses I get are Eastern European, normally.

[Gooding]

Northwestern Europe, as I mentioned earlier that people say I look German,Scandinavian,French, Dutch, or simply Nordish. In the United States, I look like an old time American from the Appalachian Mountains. I've already plastered my pic all over the place.

The "old time American from the Appalachian Mountains" I had in mind was my grandfather, Newton Boyd McDonald, who many in my family swear I'm an almost exact replica of. My wife declares that he looked very German, which was one element among the Scottish,English and Northern Irish elements he had in his gene pool. The Hoss and Bevighaus families obviously had very strong genes! I've been focussing so much on the French Creole half of my maternal grandmother, I've neglected not only the English,Scotch-Irish and Swiss elements that her father embodied, but I've neglected the man who bequeathed his image to me via his daughter.Old Boyd was from Huntsville, TN, where I've visited family several times growing up. I'm very proud of him too, and privileged to resemble him. Well, that was post 1,000.:P

[Jägerstaffel]

I don't think I'd fit in anywhere.

I really don't think I fit any phenotype or whatever.

[Guapo]

In Serbia of course. It depends on the person's point of view.I've been told Polish more than a few times, Czech-Slovak, "Yugoslav", French, Italian, Brazilian, Argentinian :D You especially get many different guesses when travelling, add the type of clothes you wear and your accent too. When I was in the Dominican Republic I was approached many times by topless Italian girls on the beach speaking Italian right away to me thinking that I was Italian.That was a nice experience.

[WinterMoon]

I dunno. I guess I'm pretty generic. People don't usually guess at my ancestry, so it must not be remarkable. ;)

[Goidelic]

I've been told mainly Central Europe and Western Europe. I've gotten Irish many times, one time French, Belgian, German, Welsh and even Spanish and Italian (which are part of the Western Europe block). I'd say I look mainly Central Euro/Western Euro (Celto-Romance), but could also pass for the British Isles. I suppose I could also pass for a lighter Bosnian Serb or Croatian in the Balkans as well, but I haven't gotten those from people.

[Liffrea]

Let’s see white, freckled skin, dark brown hair, blue eyes, average height, slim build, probably fit in right where I do, I tend to think I have the typical British look, found anywhere from Munster to Great Yarmouth, from John O’ Groats, to Dover. I’m your generic Ice Age man, minus the fur and several pounds of muscle.:D

[Allenson]

I've asked a few Europeans this very question--I've gotten Irish, Dutch & Scandinavian for an answer before.

A friend of mine in Glasgow told me that I look like I'm from the "Home Counties".

[Manifest Destiny]

I'm very tall, average build, have brown hair, hazel eyes, little-to-no freckles and extremely fair skin (to the point that I can't even get a tan). Where do I fit?

[Jarl]

I'm very tall, average build, have brown hair, hazel eyes, little-to-no freckles and extremely fair skin (to the point that I can't even get a tan). Where do I fit?

I think England would be most appropriate. Or perhaps Wales - as it is said to be slightly darker.

[Manifest Destiny]

I think England would be most appropriate. Or perhaps Wales - as it is said to be slightly darker.

Darker in hair or in skin? Because the only thing "dark" about my appearance is my hair.

[Jarl]

Darker in hair or in skin? Because the only thing "dark" about my appearance is my hair.

Darker in eye and hair colour. But I think with hazel eyes and brown hair youd fit into both equally well.

[Lulletje Rozewater]

Mauritius--Lichtenstein-Isle of Wight-Galapagos--Lapland.

Holland stinks,but in The Netherlands I like Groesbeek,which sound like Glansbeek,but I am afraid in Groesbeek they will call me Kroesbeek.:)

[Treffie]

Other than the British Isles, I'd probably fit in France, Galicia (Spain), Belgium, Netherlands.

[Mesrine]

Other than the British Isles, I'd probably fit in France, Galicia (Spain), Belgium, Netherlands.

If you are who I think you are, you'd totally fit in Bretagne.

[Nationalitist]

I'd fit in any western Slavic nation + Croatia.

[Mesrine]

I'd fit in any western Slavic nation + Croatia.

Is Poland included in your "western Slavic" pack? :D

[Nationalitist]

Of course. :)

[Poltergeist]

I'd fit in any western Slavic nation + Croatia.

Physically you would maybe fit in Hungary as well, but your un-aristocratic, boorish manners would betray you very soon.:p

[Mesrine]

Physically you would maybe fit in Hungary as well, but your un-aristocratic, boorish manners would betray you very soon.:p

Where do you think I'd fit, except in über-Alpinid Hungary?

[Treffie]

If you are who I think you are, you'd totally fit in Bretagne.

Yes, I forgot Breizh!:rolleyes2:

[NSFreja]

Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

[Tansy]

Wherever Nordic and Alpine elements meet -- any of the southern German lands, maybe eastern France too. When I was visiting around Lake Constance, the locals sometimes initiated conversations in German with me.

[Zyklop]

When I was visiting around Lake Constance, the locals sometimes initiated conversations in German with me.Isn't it just normal to start a conversation in the native language?

[Tansy]

Isn't it just normal to start a conversation in the native language?
Of course, but judging by the casual and confident manner in which they addressed me, I'm guessing that they assumed I was a local too. But I could be wrong. :rolleyes:

[Sarmata]

I don't want to show my pictures here becouse of my safety and becouse I'm just good-looking too much;):rolleyes: Well I'm pred. heavy builded CM pass for my Polish homeland and also some North European countries a bit like Baltid/Borreby look.

[Hweinlant]

I would fit just ok to any Baltic Sea country. Generally the lands north of Berlin. Poland could be bit tricky because I dont have that huge Irano-Afgan beak but rather short and straight..

[Sarmata]

I would fit just ok to any Baltic Sea country. Generally the lands north of Berlin. Poland could be bit tricky because I dont have that huge Irano-Afgan beak but rather short and straight..

Yes! My Sarmatian ancestors gave me" huge Irano-Afgan" beak:D

[Stegura]

Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia.

I think I'd fit in best in East-Central/Southeast Europe.

[Piparskeggr]

Depending on how I wear my hair and dress: Ireland, Russia, and Italy are the usual suspects.

[Tabiti]

Every country ending with "-stan" :D

[Damião de Góis]

Hum... i think Iberia, mostly southern parts. I have that ""southern look" about me. :)
I think it's something about the water.

[Ariets]

I'd have not problem to fit in most of European countries, I was mistaken for the British few times, also by natives, and in Germany too.

Especially now when I growed some hair on my head (usually Im shaving my head to zero, that give badass tough look:D) I tend to look more north-western.
.

I don't want to show my pictures here becouse of my safety and becouse I'm just good-looking too much;):rolleyes: Well I'm pred. heavy builded CM pass for my Polish homeland and also some North European countries a bit like Baltid/Borreby look.
Yeah, I totally agree. I saw you, overall impression was nothern-european, squarish a bit as far as I remember.

[Germanicus]

Living in any European country would be great, i would soon find myself a house with a plot of land that i could make into an English garden.
France does appeal a lot to me as i have holidayed in Brittany for a great many years, where else could you drive into a village petrol station and a 80 year old woman fills your car up?
Spain is a vast country along with France, both have more than enough to entice me to live there.
My schoolboy French would enable me to survive, but i am sure "Voule vue Parle Anglais" would help a lot?

[Poltergeist]

Any central and eastern European country.

[Jarl]

Any central and eastern European country.

How Eastern? How about the Gokturk Empire? :P:P:P

[Poltergeist]

How Eastern? How about the Gokturk Empire? :P:P:P

I would like it, it was a mighty empire, but unfortunately no.

[Svarogstan]

The question is what nation would you physcally fit in with the best?

My answer: MY OWN. You see there is no particular phenotype that can be
ascribed to my country.

There are people who say that I don't look Croatian because they have not been to the Country.

I have been confused with other nations because I have a nordid phenotype. Other forums have guessed me as Finnish, Danish, German, Polish, Czech, Russian.

On a recent visit to Croatia however, I was initially addressed (spoken to) in German (by the locals) on two occasions.:wink Perhaps I should ware my red and white checkered shirt next time I walk down the streets in Makarska.:)

[Mesrine]

Hum... i think Iberia, mostly southern parts. I have that ""southern look" about me. :)

Bullshit. You can't escape your Breton looks. :P

[Comte Arnau]

Both in Sweden and southern Spain/Portugal, I was taken for a French. In the Czech Republic, for an Italian.

I guess it's the Catalan/Occitan Alpowestmed look.

[Mesrine]

Both in Sweden and southern Spain/Portugal, I was taken for a French. In the Czech Republic, for an Italian.

Polaco. :p

[Falkata]

I suppose i fit everywhere in Iberia. When i was abroad (in northern countries) some people thought i was italian and strangely some also got me mixed up with a southeastern euro (balkanian, bulgarian...) althought i dont think i look like one :confused:

[Damião de Góis]

Bullshit. You can't escape your Breton looks. :P

I'll make some classify me thread in the future and we'll see what people say :P

[Bari]

Most places in Europe except northern Europe perhaps.

[The Black Prince]

According to my classification thread(s) on various fora:

- Most people their opinion: basically Northern Europe
- Some people where more precise: Northwest Europe (varying from England to Norway)
- A few others said I looked like some Russians


And Agrippa on my first classification thread, where I didn't gave away anything about my identity: N.-Dutch, Lowlands Scotland, NE.-England, and other regions along the North Sea.

[Gwynyvyr]

I have been told I "look so Irish", so I guess, Ireland.
Although people I have met from Belgium have said I have a typical *look* for there.
My aunt from Vichy, France has told me I look like her niece from France...and I have no blood relation with that lady!
Screw it...I'm moving to Vermont.:p

[Johnny Bravo]

Central/Northern/Eastern Europe is what I usually hear from people. Awar said there were Serbs and Macedonians who look like me but no Monteniggers. People abroad mostly assume I'm Dutch or Scandinavian.

Me and my girlfriend went to Germany the other day and she remarked that I looked like the average "Hans" from around those parts, while she looked like one of the myriad immigrants from the Balkans (she's Serbian/Greek/Croatian/Slovenian), and perhaps the reason why people would stare at us was the fact that we looked so racially incorrect (though I insisted it was because we're both so good looking). :p

[Amapola]

I have been said to look French, Italian, Welsh and English. I once was said to look Russian :O
I think I fit in Portugal, Spain, France... the whole Western Europe.

[Nosi]

Ukraine I think.

[Frigga]

I imagine the British Isles. I've always thought that I looked Scottish.

[Aemma]

I haven't come to this thread precisely because I never knew how to answer it. But now I have some idea thanks to the fine people here. :) I had a fun conversation with Amarantine the other day. In addition to saying that I looked like a fairy (:D) she said I looked "Europish" :D. So when I asked her what that might mean she said continental European, Slovenian (haha take that Tuco!! :P), Montenegrin, perhaps Benelux region. Interesting since Radojica thinks that I look like his Mom and she is partly Montenegrin as well from what I understand???

Kind of neat to hear this about little old me, a French Canadian whose people have been in Canada since dot! :D

[Bridie]

Anywhere in the British Isles for me. :)

[Treffie]

According to Kadu, I could fit in well in Belgium - because of my beak :D

Gee thanks, Kadu :thumb001:

[Grey]

I've been told before that I look German and Scottish (Don't know why).

[Jägerstaffel]

Finland.
:)

[Paleo]

iv been told: Ireland/Scotland, Germany, Holland and Norway.

that makes sense, considering my family history, but i plan to have a DNA test, or something to find out for sure my sub-racial origin, (as diverse as it may be).

[Solwyn]

Outside of the Maritime region of Canada, I'd say France.

:D

[Lysander]

Somewhere in northern Europe.

[Phlegethon]

Germans can always hide anywhere in Europe. They're only recognizable as tourists.

[Fortis in Arduis]

Normandy, apparently.

[Poltergeist]

Any nation that has a sizeable percentage of Dinarics.:D

[Absinthe]

Germans can always hide anywhere in Europe. They're only recognizable as tourists.
By taking over the beach with their towels? :D

[exceeder]

I have gotten a wide range of things, although usually more mid-european to south european oriented. Usually I get french, but I have also often been seen as general 'eastern european'. Czech comes to mind (but I have been told ukrainian and russian in the past... I am going to assume more on the southern end of those countries, given I dont have very 'north' slavic features). I have gotten told I looked polish from other Poles, but it was usually only after I told them I was half polish so I am skeptical of their opinion, lol.
I have gotten greek before too as well as italian a few times.
Probably the most exotic (non-european) I have gotten, was Israeli or even lebanese.

Personally, I think I fit fine in central, coastal western and southern france.

[alzo zero]

Italy, north.

[Mordid]

West Slavic and South Slavic country.

[SaxonCeorl]

I dunno, you tell me. Probably England, Scotland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, etc.

[Himera]

In many common situations , my own people , who don't know me personally , were in doubt am I foreigner or not ... and how to contact with me ...

Once, I was asked ( I talked with them already in serbian ) -nam I a serb , generally? :confused::p
After first shocking ( cause I don't feel myself such as strange for a serb ) ,
when I "counted all blood cells from serbian and montenegrian side, and when I realised that as far as I know I am a south slav ( serbian) I said "Yes , why?"

It was said to me that I have untypical shapely and narrow nose for a serb woman, and whole face shape ( ???)

They thought I am English or French ....

[Don Brick]

Nordic countries the best, naturally Parts of Germany, Britain and Netherlands surely too etc. Shouldn´t have any big problem fitting in parts of the Baltic countries, and additionally some Northern Slavic countries either although I don´t think I´d look that typical. Would be better to hear what others who have seen me think. Abroad people usually seem to assume I´m Swedish.

[mymy]

South Slavic and some West Slavic.
What I've been told the most from people who didn't know my origin was Hungary,Romania and Slovakia don't know why. In last time few people thought Croatia, but that's close to Serbia anyway :D

[Bard]

I'd probably fit Southern Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
When I was abroad in Croatia a guy mistook me for polish, I don't really know why.

[askra]

well i asked to guessify me times ago here in apricity, the result was that they answered saying that i could fit in france, spain, luxembourg, that i look a bulgarian, a mix between an italian and a german, british, irish......
i'm quite confused :lol:

[Lithium]

I was told that I have Pan-European look. Most of the guesses for my origin are the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Germany and The British Isles.

[Ivanushka-supertzar]

Id fit best in Bangladesh.

[Gaztelu]

I have been told that I look:


French
Irish
Scottish
Welsh

[kwp_wp]

Id fit best in Bangladesh.

lol. yeah!, me too :D

[Nglund]

A lot of people called me "The Nazi" or "SS" but I don't know if that's got something to do with my appearance or my behavior ;):p.
A lot of people in Germany thought that I was a fellow native back when I lived near that country. I've been referred to as a 'Viking' on this forum (thanks to my [former] beard I guess) and as a pole by Mordid :D:D.
I'll stick to what Agrippa said though, I fit in Central Europe primarily, or from France to Poland (including Germany) at least.
I look more 'continental' than insular...unfortunately:hrm00000:.

[Odoacer]

According to Kosovo je Sjrbia, I look like a light Spaniard. :lol:

[kwp_wp]

oh, yet another conclusion I remember I've read somewhere here on TA:
I'd definitely fit in USA, everyone fits in there ;)

[Sikeliot]

Based on what those of you on here who have seen my picture have said;

Spain and Portugal
France
Belgium (2x)
Wales
Ireland
Switzerland and northern Italy

[Hess]

Based on what those of you on here who have seen my picture have said;

Spain and Portugal
France
Belgium (2x)
Wales
Ireland
Switzerland and northern Italy

Where is your picture?

[Himera]

Nordic countries the best, naturally Parts of Germany, Britain and Netherlands surely too etc. Shouldn´t have any big problem fitting in parts of the Baltic countries, and additionally some Northern Slavic countries either although I don´t think I´d look that typical. Would be better to hear what others who have seen me think. Abroad people usually seem to assume I´m Swedish.

Some people have seen you here , really ? :confused::D:D:eek:

I wish I could fit in the group where Don Draper is showed rather than any other European group or region ....

but .... I am not so lucky .....
:p:rolleyes::dielaughing::dielaughing::dielaughing ::dielaughing::dielaughing:

[alzo zero]

Well if it's what other forum users think I would fit well based on my pictures, it's Italy, Switzerland, France (South-West of it according to Agrippa) and Spain.

[Sikeliot]

Well if it's what other forum users think I would fit well based on my pictures, it's Italy, France and Spain.

I'll add Portugal too. ;)

[Oreka Bailoak]

Compared to the average American, I have an exotic look (I don't look very British) so almost everybody I know asks what my ancestry is.

When I ask people to guess they usually pick first in this order...
1) Spanish
2) Italian
3) French

Personally, I do think I'd probably fit in Spain the best.

But when I was classified people said I'd fit in around Switzerland the best.

[Rouxinol]

I fit in Lisbon and that's enough. :P

[Black Sun Dimension]

Latin America.

[Don Brick]

I'll stick to what Agrippa said though, I fit in Central Europe primarily, or from France to Poland (including Germany) at least.
I look more 'continental' than insular...unfortunately:hrm00000:.

Haha well maybe we should all then just refer to Agrippa in this matter as well. :bow00002: ;) He thought I looked "rather English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch or the like...", so I guess that´s that then. Case closed. :D Although I do still maintain my stand that I look Finnish! :p

[Sikeliot]

I also remembered, someone said I looked like a white Brazilian.

[Bloodeagle]

I think that I could fit in anywhere the vikings plundered.
I like to think I would fit into Scotland quite nicely, parts of Ireland and England.

Maybe, someplace west of Virginia but north of Florida. :D

[jerney]

Germany and all surrounding Germanic countries. Sweden and probably Norway too, I guess

[Max]

From what people said about my classification probably Russia, Belarus, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and maybe the Nordic countries. I think id fit in anywhere around the Baltic sea until I try to ask for directions :D

[d3cimat3d]

#1 Bulgaria
#2 Romania
#3 Ukraine

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

I'v been told that I look Spanish, French, and even Greek (I don't agree with the last one). Actually, I think I'd fit in more or less any part of Italy (especially Center-North), but I'm not sure about other countries. Not Northern or Eastern Europe, I think; in Western and Southern Europe, very generally speaking, I wouldn't look too out of place.

But still I'm not able to classify myself more accurately.

[Peerkons]

Actually, I don't know.
Pallantides said I could fit in East/North-Norway which has had Finnish immigrants. :P

Where would you put me in?

[hajduk]

According to my classification thread on biodiverisity forum
Turkey
Albania
Bosnia
Serbia
Italy
Romania
Poland
Hungary
France and Ireland
Austria

[mymy]

I forgot about Biodiversity didn't visit long time..

I got many guessed there, but the most common was Hungarian-4 times, Romanian(Transylvanian)-3 times and Ukrainian 2 times. Other Guesses were Slovak, Czech, Polish , Irish, Bulgarian, Russian, Eastern European in general.

Guy who said that surrounding looks typical for Serbia, Hungary or Romania chose Romanian from some reason.

On Zeta forums they wasn't precise, but I got things like Slovak or Croatian-thats close to Serbian anyway.


From my experience,Turks were usually surprised that I'm Serbian because they have wrong picture and things that Serbs look like them.
Anyway, note that those guesses usually comes from people who don't know much about anthropology i think :D

[Radojica]

Balkan in whole ( I have been told once that I look like an Albanian :D) and Slovakia (have been told too).

[Cato]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__VDRjVUsO2c/TUZOkZQtejI/AAAAAAAABYc/KgLlUD6PZl4/s400/american-born-chinese-03.jpg

[Aviane]

I been told Central-Eastern or Northern and Western French, which sounds right to me.

Also been told that I could fit in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belguim, The Netherlands (but not as the most typical) and off course Ireland or Britain (but again not as the most typical).

Still I could fit in those places with ease than others.

[gold_fenix]

various people agreed Spain, France, Italy , South of Germany
other said romanian, serb, greek, mexican or cuban criole, berber

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: what can I say, I am very variable with photos

[Artek]

I don't really know where my physical appearance could be typical, maybe British Isles or related countries ;).

On wedding of my family member, I was mistaken with guest from West Germany.

[Norbert]

Based on my somewhat Alpino-Atlanto-Noricized, but still rather fair Balto-Nordoid features, I'd say Poland and Austria

[tomi4m10]

Germany, Sweden, Poland.

[Laubach]

Northern France, Austria, Germany and I could fit in Holland,England and Scandinavian

[Turkophagos]

Austria and Bavaria.

[Bloodeagle]

Austria and Bavaria.

My wife's family in Crete told me that I would fit in there too, as a German tourist. :D

[Albion]

Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Netherlands.

[Lahtari]

Nordic countries the best, naturally Parts of Germany, Britain and Netherlands surely too etc. Shouldn´t have any big problem fitting in parts of the Baltic countries, and additionally some Northern Slavic countries either although I don´t think I´d look that typical. Would be better to hear what others who have seen me think. Abroad people usually seem to assume I´m Swedish.

Kind of same here, for some reason everyone abroad assumes I'm Swedish, even when I have dark hair and eyes. Although I get a lot German and central Europe.

I just guess people don't actually know very much how Finns look like.

[Äike]

Kind of same here, for some reason everyone abroad assumes I'm Swedish, even when I have dark hair and eyes. Although I get a lot German and central Europe.

I just guess people don't actually know very much how Finns look like.

As a person who regularly sees Finns and Swedes, I can differentiate between them quite successfully.

But you do have a point about people not knowing how Finns(or any other Northern-Europeans) look like.

Numerous foreigners have said that I have to be a Swede, because only the Swedes are so blond. :ohwell:

The majority of the Estonians look more similar to the Swedes than the Finns do, but I'd say that I can pass(and have passed) as a native in Finland and Sweden.

[d3cimat3d]

Romania

[Sikeliot]

Romania

Funny because I'd have guessed you to be Spanish if I didn't know :lol:

[Dario Argento]

Albania, Hungary, Czech republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia. Mostly Balkans and Central Europe.

[Talvi]

I was told once that I look Central European......

[poiuytrewq0987]

I was told once that I look Central European......

Yeah, you could pass for a native in places like Austria, Bavaria or anywhere in France and maybe Spain too. Not all too surprising tbh.

[Dario Argento]

Yeah, you could pass for a native in places like Austria, Bavaria or anywhere in France and maybe Spain too. Not all too surprising tbh.

What about me?

[d3cimat3d]

Funny because I'd have guessed you to be Spanish if I didn't know :lol:

Well I don't think you can tell much from that 1 picture I posted, it was small and blurry. On another forum I asked to get classified and most said I look Bulgarian or Romanian.

On Thiazi (German forum) it was a contentious agreement that I look Croatian.

[Talvi]

Yeah, you could pass for a native in places like Austria, Bavaria or anywhere in France and maybe Spain too. Not all too surprising tbh.

Why isnt it all too surprising?
The only known foreign ancestry that I have is Swedish. :D Anything else un-Estonian musht have happened a looooong loooooong time ago.

Many Estonians have told me I look un-Estonian. :(

[poiuytrewq0987]

Why isnt it all too surprising?
The only known foreign ancestry that I have is Swedish. :D Anything else un-Estonian musht have happened a looooong loooooong time ago.

Many Estonians have told me I look un-Estonian. :(

You have a general Northern-Central European look which shouldn't be non-Estonian but I have never been there so... :coffee:

[Foxy]

To me people answered Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.

[alzo zero]

To me people answered Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.
Do you have a classification thread?

[Foxy]

Do you have a classification thread?

Yes here http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24819
but I have removed my pics. If you want to classify me or express your opinion I can post some new pics (badly I do almost all by webcam and the quality is not that great/colours are a bit altered by the light ).

[alzo zero]

Yes here http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24819
but I have removed my pics. If you want to classify me or express your opinion I can post some new pics (badly I do almost all by webcam and the quality is not that great/colours are a bit altered by the light ).
Yes thank you, but only if you are ok with it.

[Foxy]

Yes thank you, but only if you are ok with it.

I have reposted my pics. Please don't copy them becouse I plan to delete them very soon. :thumbs up

[alzo zero]

I have reposted my pics. Please don't copy them becouse I plan to delete them very soon. :thumbs up
I agree with the other people. You'd fit in the Southern Balkans best.

[Foxy]

I agree with the other people. You'd fit in the Southern Balkans best.

Hoping that it's positive.......

[alzo zero]

Hoping that it's positive.......
It absolutely is. :D

[Foxy]

It absolutely is. :D

And what about you? At first feeling, I'd say that Northern Italy has the cutest guys (even if I have a weak for Romans too, more burini the funnier it is).

[alzo zero]

And what about you?
I'm quite average for my Lombardia, nothing special with me. As I've said a few posts back in my classification thread people were guessing Northern Italy, Switzerland, Southern France and Iberian countries. Incidentally these are the countries people guess most often I'm from when I am abroad, so it was accurate I think. :)

[Foxy]

I'm quite average for my Lombardia, nothing special with me. As I've said a few posts back in my classification thread people were guessing Northern Italy, Switzerland, Southern France and Iberian countries. Incidentally these are the countries people guess most often I'm from when I am abroad, so it was accurate I think. :)

Where is your classification thread? Can I see it?
I was also mistaken for Spanish once, when I was in Germany. But mostly for linguistic reasons I think. Abroad they always confuse Italians and Spaniards, becouse most time they are not able to distinguish our languages.

[Dario Argento]

Where is your classification thread? Can I see it?
I was also mistaken for Spanish once, when I was in Germany. But mostly for linguistic reasons I think. Abroad they always confuse Italians and Spaniards, becouse most time they are not able to distinguish our languages.

Some drunk Brits I used to hang out with a few times when I was in London used to think I was Italian despite I told them various times I was not. Maybe it's because my accent?

[Lahtari]

Abroad they always confuse Italians and Spaniards, becouse most time they are not able to distinguish our languages.

How is that possible? Even when they're closely related, the note is completely different.

[Dario Argento]

How is that possible? Even when they're closely related, the note is completely different.

Depends of what accent the person is speaking. A lot of Slavic languages sound pretty similar to me, except for some extreme examples.

[Bard]

Depends of what accent the person is speaking. A lot of Slavic languages sound pretty similar to me, except for some extreme examples.

I agree. For example I have no clues about how to distinguish the various languages of the balkans :(

[Foxy]

How is that possible? Even when they're closely related, the note is completely different.

I dunno. Ask them. I think that I don't look Spanish at all.


Some drunk Brits I used to hang out with a few times when I was in London used to think I was Italian despite I told them various times I was not. Maybe it's because my accent?

If you are the guy in the photo you do look Italian. I have a friend who is identical to you. :eek:

[Falkata]

Where is your classification thread? Can I see it?
I was also mistaken for Spanish once, when I was in Germany. But mostly for linguistic reasons I think. Abroad they always confuse Italians and Spaniards, becouse most time they are not able to distinguish our languages.

I´ve been mistaken by italian many times too

[Foxy]

I agree. For example I have no clues about how to distinguish the various languages of the balkans :(

Well, Greek language sounds similar to Spanish, but while we Italians understand Spanish, Greek is impossible to understand. So, Greek sounds like an ununderstandable Spanish. The slavic languages sound all like Russian to me, but if you want to excercise to distinguish the slavic languages belonging to the EU this is a good site

http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/languages/index_it.htm

Hungarian doesn't sound slavic. It's more vocalic, similar to Finnish.

*I add about Romanian: now that I am listening it, it sounds no slavic at all. I understand 3/4 of what she's saying *.*

[alzo zero]

Where is your classification thread? Can I see it?
Of course and your contribution is appreciated, if you wish:
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=392810&postcount=1
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=394032&postcount=16
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=394890&postcount=24


Abroad they always confuse Italians and Spaniards, becouse most time they are not able to distinguish our languages.
Most of the time it's French for me. I guess that my accent is different to the musical Italian accent they're used to.

[alzo zero]

Some drunk Brits I used to hang out with a few times when I was in London used to think I was Italian despite I told them various times I was not.
It doesn't come as a surprise to me, you are Argentinian no?

[Foxy]

Of course and your contribution is appreciated, if you wish:
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=392810&postcount=1
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=394032&postcount=16
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=394890&postcount=24


Most of the time it's French for me. I guess that my accent is different to the musical Italian accent they're used to.

Central-North Italy and France indeed. :thumbs up You Asterix.
You have a very beautiful profile, very neoclassic.

[alzo zero]

Central-North Italy and France indeed. :thumbs up You Asterix.
I think I look more like Julius Caesar from the cartoon. ;)

[Foxy]

I think I look more like Julius Caesar from the cartoon. ;)

No, he has a dinaric nose, while yours is streight. But if you visit Latium you will laugh.

[Sikeliot]

I've read that Greeks are often mistaken for Spanish when traveling because people think their accent is Spanish... it has to be linguistic, because the typical Greek doesn't look Spanish at all.

[gold_fenix]

yes Greeks appears to have same accent but they speak a extrange language

[Sikeliot]

I once mistook a Cuban for Greek because her accent sounded Greek.. I couldn't believe it because I usually can identify Spanish accents right away.

I'd think that Argentinians would sound similar to Spanish with an Italian influenced accent btw.

[alzo zero]

I'd think that Argentinians would sound similar to Spanish with an Italian influenced accent btw.
For curiosity, how is an Italian accent supposed to sound like to non-Italians? Can you make some examples?

[Lahtari]

For curiosity, how is an Italian accent supposed to sound like to non-Italians? Can you make some examples?

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[alzo zero]

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:D
Mammammmia! :D Now I understand why I'm guessed something else most of the times...

[Sikeliot]

For curiosity, how is an Italian accent supposed to sound like to non-Italians? Can you make some examples?

Argentinian Spanish, to my American ears, sounds like Spanish spoken in an Italian accent.

[Rosenrot]

In Rio, people aways think i'm from the south of Brazil. Where there's most Italians and German immigration. And i'm more white then most, but that's maybe cause everyone is on the beach while i'm working.

I guess I would fit in Italy, but since I never been there, i'm just supposing.

[Foxy]

In Rio, people aways think i'm from the south of Brazil. Where there's most Italians and German immigration. And i'm more white then most, but that's maybe cause everyone is on the beach while i'm working.

I guess I would fit in Italy, but since I never been there, i'm just supposing.

Yes, you can be Italian.

If Italian sounds that way, I will speak only English by now. :eek:

The strange fact is that Super Mario is speaking with a sort of Neapolitan tone.

[alzo zero]

Yes, you can be Italian.

If Italian sounds that way, I will speak only English by now. :eek:
To be fair I understand how Southern Italian accents can sound like that to foreigners. Even to me it sounds like Napolitan!

[Foxy]

To be fair I understand how some Southern Italian accents can sound like that to foreigners. Even to me it sounds like Napolitan!

I have read that to foreigners Italian sounds sweet, but Super Mario's speech to me sounds only...errr... funny.

[Laubach]

Argentinian Spanish, to my American ears, sounds like Spanish spoken in an Italian accent.

I agree with you

[Comte Arnau]

For curiosity, how is an Italian accent supposed to sound like to non-Italians? Can you make some examples?

In Spain, it seems as if all commercials of pizza should be spoken with an Italian accent, mainly consisting in speaking with a singing tone and very open a's.

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[Ibericus]

I guess I would pass in all Western Europe

[Dario Argento]

It doesn't come as a surprise to me, you are Argentinian no?

Yes, I am Argentine. But I don't have any Italian ancestry like a lot of people here.