Are You Guessed Wrong?

[Anglo-Celtic]

I'm of almost exclusively Western British and Native Irish descent, but I've been guessed as English only once, Irish only once, or Scottish only once (where did my Welsh go?). I almost always get some kind of Mediterranean, and people claim that I look like varied Jewish celebrities (I'm just relieved that they're not ugly). I even got guessed as French twice (a Cajun at a store guessed me as Cajun), and I got "some Native American" in high school once (LOL). Are you guessed wrong too?

[HectorOfTroy]

My South American fellows almost always recognize me as another South American and try speaking Spanish to me almost right away. To Non South Americans, I've been guessed as Balkan, Native American (Lot of Natives here are mixed, with some looking like a bronze skinned black haired psuedo-Atlantid with a minor Asiatic-like looking influence, so that's probably why I'll sometimes be guessed as that), however most will just be unsure about what I am and ask me.

One time at my job a middle-aged Romanian lady (Not born in Romania but that was her ethnicity) asked me what ethnicity I was out of the blue/conversation opener, I think she might've thought I was Balkan/Romanian or something.

[sacha]

I look quite Levantine, very much of my specific area as well, but I get a wide variety of answers from people outside of my region... when I was in France, Italy it was a mix leaning towards being right, but I swear since I have come to work in the US they have all been telling me Southern Europe or Jewish. Southern European I believe is purely because of my accent because they are awful at identifying them, Jewish I suppose it is my nose, but I do not 'look' either... I think Americans generally are just bad at this though, I do not fault them, it is their country.

[calxpal]

Certain groups of people almost 100% guess me wrong in real life and online but not others as often oddly enough, the group the has guessed me wrong 100% of the time has been White Americans from the US but I am NOT trying to insult them at all they just could never accurately tell where I was from, this doesn't mean they are bad people ofc but just a funny observation lol. I've found Latin Americans are slightly more likely to be correct guessing where I'm from, and Europeans have been the most correct and accurate both in real life and online (I'm only taking into when they didn't know my ethnicity prior).

Also for context I lived in the US for 23 years.

I've gotten a lot of wrong guesses and some fairly good guessed as well. A few times I have asked people to guess when they brought it up as a topic of conversation lol.

[HarveySuits]

Certain groups of people almost 100% guess me wrong in real life and online but not others as often oddly enough, the group the has guessed me wrong 100% of the time has been White Americans from the US but I am NOT trying to insult them at all they just could never accurately tell where I was from, this doesn't mean they are bad people ofc but just a funny observation lol. I've found Latin Americans are slightly more likely to be correct guessing where I'm from, and Europeans have been the most correct and accurate both in real life and online (I'm only taking into when they didn't know my ethnicity prior).

Also for context I lived in the US for 23 years.

What do they guess you as?

[calxpal]

What do they guess you as?

When I lived in the US they guessed me as a number of things, but the most frequent by far were German, Anglo-American from the US, both which aren't in my ancestry at all lol as well as 100% Irish or English (I am 50% so that guess is better tbh). No one in the US ever guessed I was Canadian (my parents are from Canada), part Ukrainian, or part French/French Canadian. But I guess I wouldn't necessarily expect them to guess those to be fair.

[HarveySuits]

When I lived in the US they guessed me as a number of things, but the most frequent by far were German, Anglo-American from the US, both which aren't in my ancestry at all lol as well as 100% Irish or English (I am 50% so that guess is better tbh). No one in the US ever guessed I was Canadian (my parents are from Canada), part Ukrainian, or part French/French Canadian. But I guess I wouldn't necessarily expect them to guess those to be fair.

Anglo (or British) seems right since it's half your ancestry. And you probably have a US accent since you lived here that long, so they couldn't make a distinction between Canadian and American. I was curious as what else they could guess you as. But yes, French and Ukrainian aren't exactly visible.

[calxpal]

Anglo (or British) seems right since it's half your ancestry. And you probably have a US accent since you lived here that long, so they couldn't make a distinction between Canadian and American. I was curious as what else they could guess you as. But yes, French and Ukrainian aren't exactly visible.

I agree for the most part . Just for interest from US Americans I have also been guessed as Polish, Italian, Swedish, Irish, Balkan, and part Hawaiian? Lol to be fair I don't expect people to be able to guess exactly what I am. Just find it amusing.

[Tsuin]

I live among Mestizos so I'm guessed right. I do get asked "are you native american/what tribe are you from?" a lot of the time. Most exotic ethnicity I've been confused for was Hawaiian

[gixajo]

Nope...