I am a filipino but often mistaken for something else and it somewhat offends me.

Do you also get mistaken for other nationality even while in PI? Does it offend you?

Im often mistaken as Vietnamese or Thai ..
My sister is mistaken as Japanese, and my brother as Chinese ..

In Phils im American and my name is Joe, thats kinda funny, since im not American, and my name isnt Joe

I have never in my life been "mistaken" as a Filipino in any sense ...

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What are you mistaken as? And why does it offend you?

not really...one time someone mistook me for viet

i dont get mistaken most of the time they instead ask me what nationality most of the time. and i like say Philippines and they are like wtf? where is that? lol

im mistaken for mexican or puerto rican by latinos. whenever i enter a mexican restuarant the servers always speak to me in spanish but i always answer in english. luckily i understand pretty well thanks to my high school spanish teacher who happened to be filipino. once, i went to a professional job interview at a predominantly latino institution where i was interviewed for the first 5 minutes in spanish while only answering in english. the interviewer finally asked if i was mexican or puerto rican and was surprised to find out i was filipino.

when i was in the philippines some taxi drivers thought i was indonesian.

i have been mistaken for jamaican by some filipinos here in the states. it was strange considering i was at simbang gabi mass seated with my very filipino looking parents.

black people think im half black.

Depends where and when, vietnamese, japanese and korean.

When you see a African can you guess his nationality or even seperate central, from east, west or southern African? How about a European can you tell a Frenchman from a Brit at a glance? There are things to be offended by, is this truly one of them?

Viet or Chinese.

whats ur real ethnicity???

It doesn't matter in south Los Angeles because when black people started replacing the whites as they moved west Japanese who came back after the WWII relocation camps were the local asian communitie as they did not have the money then to follow the "white flight" with "Japanese flight" so all asians are called Japanese at first sight. Unless you are running a mom & pop store then you are Korean. To the Central Americans who replaced the Japanese who had left or died out and are replacing the Blacks all asians are Chinese.

In other parts of the world and maybe the neighborhood next door in diverse nations the people will make a different assement and instead of assuming you are Japanese or Chinese they may assume you are Vietnamese or even Mexican depending upon your features.

Not offended at all.

human

Mexican or Chinese....it bothers me.

Everything from Korean to Mexican. Tanginamo, Pinoy ako!

To whites who mistake me for something else: Go get an STD from your cousin.
To blacks who mistake me for something else: Don't y'all have a cotton field that needs maintenance?
To Hispanics who mistake me for something else: The INS will put you out of your misery.
To Filipinos who mistake me for something else: My foot up their asses.

mexican or puerto rican or filipino or indonesian or jamaican or black = troll




i've seen your pic. chinese?!? wth?





can someone spell C-R-A-Z-Y

Usually Mexican or some other kind of Hispanic. But a lot of ppl say I look Filipino.

chinese na malaki mata..
it offends me...
not the chinese part but the "malaki mata"

I have been mistaken as mek tribe

Girls ask me if I was part black, right after they bed me

I have been mistaken for a:

Navajo Indian(United States), twice it happen. First time in a mall in Carlsbad, i Navajo greet me in his languange. Then on base Camp Pendleton, a Navajo did the same thing.

Black, when i was in the US Marines, i got really dark. Filipinos and a Russian in the Middle East thought i was black.

Samoan, Hawaiian, i don't look like it but a few thought i was. They said i was too big for an average Filipino.

Thai, by a Filipino in the US Navy. And a few Thai women when i was in Thailand. They asked how come i always speak in english and not talk to Thai to them.

Malaysian, also in Thailand. I don't see a problem here cuz there are Malays who came to islands of Philippines before the colonial times.

Vietnames, in Thailand also.

Chinese, i was wearing a skater hat, and the flight attendant(very pretty, China Airlines) talked to me in Chinese.

I have been mistaken for a:

Navajo Indian(United States), twice it happen. First time in a mall in Carlsbad, i Navajo greet me in his languange. Then on base Camp Pendleton, a Navajo did the same thing.

Black, when i was in the US Marines, i got really dark. Filipinos and a Russian in the Middle East thought i was black.

Samoan, Hawaiian, i don't look like it but a few thought i was. They said i was too big for an average Filipino.

Thai, by a Filipino in the US Navy. And a few Thai women when i was in Thailand. They asked how come i always speak in english and not talk to Thai to them.

Malaysian, also in Thailand. I don't see a problem here cuz there are Malays who came to islands of Philippines before the colonial times.

Vietnames, in Thailand also.

Chinese, i was wearing a skater hat, and the flight attendant(very pretty, China Airlines) talked to me in Chinese.

film4reel, am I being too politically incorrect for you? Chill out.

if you are pinoy with yellow skin and slanted eyes... you will always be mistaken as a chinese
if you are pinoy with big deep eyes, not necessary white or dark... mexican, hispanic...
pinoy... everyone who is brown..
if you are pinoy with dark eyes.. indian

me?

Chinese and korean

many pinoy can be mistaken for a chinese...

there is one time when i went to bir someone called me Korean korean! and whenever we dine at kfc espana or mcdo espana, it never fails that there are koreans dining.. there are these two korean women... yep they are cute and have a nice body... and i know the korean attitude that they isolate themselves.. so i never mind them... and minutes passed and i notice that they are looking at me uninterrupted.. so i thought maybe i'm just paranoid that always thought that i'm a ladies man.... lol! then i get some gravy and they are still looking at me... kulang na lang sabihin ko na hindi nyo ako kababayan!! hahah amd the picture in my resume a lot of people told me you look koreano...

not offended with the chinese but korean

italian, middle eastern, spanish, hispanic

No matter how dark, or non-East Asian looking a Filipino is, people will still mistake them for Chinese. Some ppl even think i'm Chinese, even though most ppl think i look Hispanic. It's a part of being Asian i guess.

Its not part of being asian... its a part of being Pinoy

^ I meant that almost every Asian is gonna be mistaken for Chinese some time in their life, that's why its a part of being Asian.

No One will ever mistook me for a chinese

hhhmmm ok.. because the only asian that can be mistaken for a hispanic are Filipinos..

ok

is there something wrong?

yeah,only filipinos look hispanics.

You'd be surprised. There are a lot of ignorant ppl in America.

keep on sucking that spanish d1ck

you tell him,bwoy.

i'd think you from da amzon,cause of you hair and skin color. my ex had the same hair texture as you,but she was a lil darker.

amelican.

Is it ignorance when without any further evidence like linking an hispanic name to you that an American makes a snap ID of you based on physical features?

Are you ignorant if you can't make a distinction among the various African nationalities and ethnic groups at a glance? Can you distinguish a Pole from a Brit if you didn't hear an accent or a slavic name? Would that make someone ignorant who can't?

I stand by my earlier theory in most cases if the viewer sees Asian then you will be identified as being part of the dominant Asian ethnic group in that area. Where I am it happens to be Japanese. If the viewer does not pick up on the Asian physical features then again in my location you will be identified as Mexican. It hapens because many Mexicans with more Native American features have a quasi-Asian look.

Not ignorance, just using statistics to take your best shot until more information becomes available like hearing a classically Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese or hispanic name to link to you.

thank you for the cocky reply

i often get mistaken as chinese and korean.but i don't really mind

soo true.."Where's that, in South America??"

WTF???

13° 00 N, 122° 00 E

mmmmm

Korean..

I hate it when people start talking to me in English for no reason at all.

pakistani or indian. they are only partly correct.

that girl on her sig...is not her

yea yep...fcourse thats not me...its A N D I M A N Z A N O

she's cute...but she doesn't look any different then any other Manila girl

i was never mistaken as any nationality because i was born and grew in the Philippines so everyone acknowledges me as a Filipino

although with few exemptions :

my brother used to call me "albinong ita or puting ita (white aeta)" because of my very curly hair when i was a kid which eventually became quite straight.

but i had a classmate who called me "bumbay! (indian)" for some reason, maybe because i had quite high nose brigde or what.

and another classmate of mine told me i look like Saddam Hussein

I also grew up and residing in PI but very few pinoy think I am a local. It is either I am mixed pinoy or completely banyaga. Most pinoy think I am Indiana or Pakistani or Turkish or mixed africana but foreigners have differing opinions... Palestinian, jew, lebanese, mexican, brazilian, mixed medditeranean, samoan (name all the dark haired race) etc etc etc.

Even my husband who is non-filipino changes his opinion everyweek about my real ethnicity

I think I should take a DNA test. I could travel the world with all the foreign resemblance I have