i've heard indians being called black, mexican, arab, iranian, etc.


would guys be really offended if someone mistook you for a paki or an arab?

I am a very annoyed person in general.

Indians (and South Asians) can get mistaken for almost every other race on the planet:

Whites, Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, Arabs, Jews, Persians/Iranians, East Asians, South-East Asians, Mongols, Central Asians, Greeks, Mediterraneans, Amerindians, and the list goes on...

Well not extremely offended, but yeah annoyed. Wouldn't you be?
Actually people guess my nationality wrong lots of times...
They thought i was Turkish (i so do not look Turkish imo) lots of times and once
Native American (that one was cool cuz you dont hear that often hehe)

Pakistanis were once a part of India,,My Pakistani friends actually have ancestors with Indian surnames. Plus, Pakistan wasn't created until the seperation of India, and a lot of the Muslims from the Indian side migrated to Pakistan.

BTW Karma, I saw that you were mistaken for Turkish. Are you light skinned?

Uh-huh i could be considered as one of the lighter Indians...

My friend is guatelmalen. At first I thought he was Indian lol

I once got mistaken for a Australian Aboriginal once . I was at this play or tour and one of the native dudes came up and said mate ya one of us come and join us in the sorry can't spell it Kooriboree thatz a native dance. Should a said yes I am one so I could scam all the government financial benefits lol. Although to be serious its time we paid them back.

are there any indians who look chinese?

Ladakhis, and sikkimese who are sino-tibetan would look chinese i guess.

I do know some Chicago Indians that get mistaken for Phillipino or Cambodian, as well as being half-Indian mixed with some Eastern Asian nationality.

Here are some examples of those types of South Asians. Some people can tell that they're Indian or Pakistani (like most of the other Indians) and some people think they look like more SE Asian. You decide, lol. It's all about opinion for Indians and Pakistanis that look like this.

It's true that there are Indians that could get mistaken for anything, but I think Arab and Latino are the most common when it comes to Indians in general.

wouldnt you contribute this to the high genetic diversity in india?

yes, India is highly highly diverse

uh.. i dont know about you but indian people dislike the mention of pakistani when talking about indian traits..........


but anyways. ive known some filipino people look indian but not the other way around.

hmm really? To me it's basically one peoples just two countries.

Cambodian I get, but mistaken for filipino... that seems to be pushing it a bit.

LOL I think some northern indians could be mistaken for Afghan.

well. but still . there is beef between india and pakistan. imm just bringing up how it offends some indians

i guess it would offend some ultranationalistic hindus, like vikas.

That's true for some people, but Pakistanis are still South Asian. Some people can't always differentiate between Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Indians, and Bangladeshis. There were Indians who I thought were Pakistani, and there were Pakistanis who I thought were Indian. My mom gets Pakistani a lot, even by other South Asians.


Another reason why I included a Pakistani girl is to show that not only NorthEastern Indians can have those features.

Judging from the Phillipinos that I've seen, I would say it's pushing it a bit too.

But, toki said that she knew some Phillipinos that look Indian, but I have never seen any. Anyone got any pics?

I think you are pissing him off even more

I'm filipino/hawaiian and I get mistakened by indians as indian. I tell them I'm not indian, but they think I'm lying and say I look like their people.

I completely understand where you're coming from. I think that's pretty silly (and rude) to accuse someone of lying about their background, because you know yourself more than they do. Or, maybe they don't want to admit that they made a mistake when it came to identifying their own kind.

well filipino traits vary a lot as well. and back in my old organization there was a lotta filipino people there too. and ive seen filipinos here and there looking indian but not much at all. i can see if i can scrounge up old pics of this one guy. but its back at my old house.

In that third pic, wth is she wearing over her boobs? lol.

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I am a M'sian and in M'sia they have both Indians and Malays (I believe that Filipinos are Christian Malays? Correct me if I am wrong). I do not think your older brother and sister look like an Indian. They look like Filipinos.

Amazing how orientals are obcessed with race.

im not saying how all filipinos look indian. most dont. but i met like two who do. dont get defensive on it its only two people filipino's traits vary a lot/

Dude are you high on drugs or something. Those people look nothing like filipinos. Maybe they can pass for Malaysian though.

I would mistaken an Indian or Pakistani for being hispanic/latino or arab.

I actually am not that ignorant and dumb. Indians usually have very dark skin, high nose bridges, and big googly eyes.

They are usually darker, on average, than latinos. Plus I find Indians to have more caucasian looking nose (hence I said they have big nose bridges) than latinos.

What's funny though, is I've mistaken an Afghani female for being mexican. I began to speak Spanish to her, and she was like "is this guy on crack?" She then told me she's Afghani. Seriously though, the way she spoke English had an accent similar to how mexicans speak English ....with this sing-song accent.

we are half malay and half polynesian and I'm not upset being called Indian(your people look great).

Whatever you say.

LOL your half polynesian, great... whatever. Just don't go thinking everyone else is like you though.

Dont Indians get mistaken as whites i mean like italians southern european a lot cuz i see a whole $hit load at my place that look kinda caucasion well except the darker ones

indians, as well as latinos and arabs dont really have a set look...we all have very different skin colors, features, hair textures, height differences, etc. u might be able to tell the difference between these races, but u cant generalize by saying indians are usually darker or very dark, and not all of us have big eyes. and the "big googly eyes" comment was unnecessary.

all the members of my immediate family (my two parents, my siblings and i) all have different skin colors, different features, different hair textures, and even different undertones to our skin. and yes, all my siblings and i have the same to parents.

what the hell is a "big googly eyes"?

Like this


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And bahdukeplayer, you think indians have googly @$$? You dumba*s maybe you do.

Word. The same thing goes in my family. I had one girl ask me if I was adopted, because my mom is light and I'm brown.

If they're Punjabis and especially Kashmiris, maybe.

Quite a few Afghans I've seen on TV documentaries could pass not only for European but even northern European (blue eyes, blond hair, pale skin, etc)

i've actually seen quite a few southern italians, spaniards, portuguese and greeks that are much darker than the ones in the north, with brown skin...they could pass as arabic, indian, whatever, but they are pure mediterranean.

well...the aryans are a mediterranean race...

I can understand why people might mistake an Indian like her for latin/white etc.


but what amazed me is that even indians like her get mistaken for other races.



are people just stupid these days????? or ignorant or both??

Better not tell any of them that

Seriously, if the Net is any indication, southern europeans get extremely angry if anyone mistakes them for a darker-skinned race.

^ Holy Mahutmagahanda

i get mistaken for spanish alot.......lotta pple start talking spanish to me until i tell them im indian....and im not light.....im fairly brown with really shiny black hair....so far i always gotten mistaken for spanish.....

i used to date a afghani girl......who are really persians.....but she looked a lot like a south asian.......then again my cousins and sisters look like white girls....so i dont know

indians can be mistaken as people from the middle east.