The OH-SO FASCINATING ancestry or ethnicity thread.
 

So that bird there thought that anecdotes about people misjudging your nationality would make an interesting thread. I don't particularly agree, but I figure that it might help people (particularly Raine and Ma Cherie) get these things out of their system.

So, the question is, do you have any interesting family history, ancestry that you want to tell us about? Or have you been mistaken for anybody of another nationality or whatnot? Do you have a great-grandmother who went to Ireland once when she was a child, which means you're now 'Irish'?

If so, for God's sake write about it here. Nowhere else. This thread!

My anecdotes:
I was walking through Delhi (as you do) when this skinny Indian dude runs up to me and introduces himself. He then tell me that the only reason he came up was that he thought I looked just like Shah Rukh Khan and felt it was important that he told me this.

Shah Rukh Khan is Indian. I am blond. I wouldn't really say we look similar.

Oh, also people from other countries tend to assume I'm Australian (my 'Australian accent' apparently') or Irish (no explanation on this one). They never seem to guess that I'm English, for some reason. I've got wonky teeth, so I would have thought it was obvious... This happens to me in the ****ing UK too!

Im Irish, of descent from Brian Boru. :0, and Scandanavian. French, and English.Oh and CANADIAN :).

Spanish, English, and Irish.

And I'd prefer that we americans get addressed as statesmen and not by our country, State to State, culture and politics change drastically.

Im from Massachusetts, I hate when I get grouped in with other Americans from, say, South Dakota. We're not the same people.

I'm Japanese, Korean, Irish, Spanish, Morrocan, and Lebanese.
I can trace my ancestry back to the Spanish Inquisition on my father's side and I can go back as far as slavery in Japan on my mother's. I could probably trace my history back to the Moors if I wanted to . . but those people got around. To a lot of places.

I look Asian, I can pass for white.
Some people think I'm black, Puerto Rican and occasionally Mexican.
And then there are some people that know I'm asian and can't believe it because "I'm too tall to be asian"

Spanish, English, and Irish, and eskimo. This is in my blood...
blue, brown, and green eyes, dark's, and light skins.

I'm American.
My ancestry is german, and japanese.

EDIT: Its Italian and Japanese hence my last name being ARTISE.

I'm Cherokee Indian (it doesn't show I get sunburn like a pale pasty fat white boy), Irish, and German.

So pretty much I got my land taken away from me, I then had to move back because my potatos were bad, and I tried to take over europe out of anger.

Irish, a bit aboriginal and Aussie:)

I'm Jamaican, Portuguese, Italian, and German.

wow! crazy mix... cool!