Monday, March 20, 2006

Mistaken Identities

While here in India, I have been mistaken for being:
* Malaysian
* Canadian
* British (because of my "clear pronunciation of english")
* Japanese (yeah, yeah...)
* Korean
* Tibetan
* from the Northeastern States of India like Nagaland despite being pretty fair

Strangely, there have been a couple of times when, after declaring that I'm from the States, the inquistor was taken by surprise by my answer. Puzzled, they comment that I seem to "look Chinese or Korean or something like that." I don't think they realize just what a melting pot of ethnicities the States are becoming.

There has only been one time that someone has accurately guessed that I'm Chinese.

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