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Hi Jamie
I used to have a boyfriend whose grandparents had come to the US from Armenia. Every New Year's Eve we would go to the Armenian Ball in Philadelphia. And every year I was inevitably asked by someone there whether I was Irish. I guess it must have been the eye color and freckles that evoked the question. 
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| Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:46 pm Mr. Bagdad |
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Hi Jamie!
A formerly friend of mine is a dark haired type and has a quite brown skin. When he had to do his civil-service he was supposed to do it in an hospital in Hof (Franken a part of Bavaria). As his surname was "Pankok" and the difference between our Westfalian and the Bavarian accent is obvious his nickname in Hof had been Mr. Bagdad. The most funny thing of that was: his roots are in Friesland. Since Friesland is Northern Germany and most Friesen look like Irish people.
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| Sun Jul 23, 2006 17:55 pm Do you look like the 'wrong' nationality? |
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Whenever people ask me where I'm from, I always say Jamaica.
NIce thing to start a conversation this way.
Especially if I'm a new employee, and the old ones trying to show me their position in the foodchain, if you know what I mean. 
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| Sun Jul 23, 2006 18:49 pm Nationality |
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Hi Jamie,
Do you get similarly mistaken for another nationality because of course we don't know what you look like?
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| Sun Jul 23, 2006 21:57 pm Nationality |
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Red-haired Spanish people always seem a bit incongruous to me. Nicely and cutely so, but unusual, all the same. A reminder that Celtic blood runs in our veins, I guess.
| Alan wrote: | | Do you get similarly mistaken for another nationality because of course we don't know what you look like? |
Yeah, come on, Jamie, don’t play hard to get. You’ve got us all curious now (meaning: some of us are on tenterhooks) ! |
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:46 am Nationality |
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| Alan wrote: | | Do you get similarly mistaken for another nationality because of course we don't know what you look like? |
I have been mistaken for a German, a Pole, a Spaniard, a Dutchman, a Swedish-American, and my face, as it looked in my 20s, adorns a mural in a Detroit elementary school, where (I assume with some color alteration) I was used to represent the national hero of Brazil. |
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:51 am Nationality |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Alan wrote: | | Do you get similarly mistaken for another nationality because of course we don't know what you look like? |
I have been mistaken for a German, a Pole, a Spaniard, a Dutchman, a Swedish-American, and my face, as it looked in my 20s, adorns a mural in a Detroit elementary school, where (I assume with some color alteration) I was used to represent the national hero of Brazil. |
Well, now we're more curious than ever !!! Do you do it on purpose, Jamie, to keep the suspense?!
Come to think of it, your Brazilian hero picture would do ! Or how about one of you as a kid? That's something we could all do one day, just for fun. We could make a great game out of it, having to guess who is who, for example (the same could be done with our voices). What do you all think about this? |
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:41 am Do you look like the 'wrong' nationality? |
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Hello!
My husband and me were at Germany on Taize Meeting. In metro we saw beautiful girl. Dark hair, dark eyes, very characteristic Italan face. My husband asked her something but she haven`t understood anything. Soon she told that she speak Polish only. It was very funny for me, but my husband was very disappointed with the fact he couldn`t talk with Italian girl.
Conchita,
how could we use our voices in this forum? I like your idea it would be very funny.
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 13:05 pm Nationality |
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| Conchita wrote: | | Well, now we're more curious than ever !!! Do you do it on purpose, Jamie, to keep the suspense?! |
I offend enough people on this forum that I have no intention of letting anyone know what I look like. As I mentioned before on the forums, a Muslim convert to Christianity in my area used to contribute to various religious discussions online, and people succeeded in hunting him down and killing him for converting. Maybe some lady who owns three or four cats will be offended and come after me.
| Conchita wrote: | | Come to think of it, your Brazilian hero picture would do ! Or how about one of you as a kid? That's something we could all do one day, just for fun. We could make a great game out of it, having to guess who is who, for example (the same could be done with our voices). What do you all think about this? |
A picture of me as a kid might be interesting, but more interesting would be one of me as at 18, with hair all the way down to my waist. One of my drawing teachers thought I looked like Albrecht D?rer, and one elderly drunk woman mistook me for Jesus, because I appeared in the middle of the night when she was unable to stand up, and carried her and her bag of wine bottles to her apartment building.
This lady, by the way, dropped her keys in the vestibule of her apartment building, and when she bent down to pick them up, her false teeth fell out. She was so fast that she caught them with her mouth in mid-air! |
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Hi Jamie,
Albrecht Durer, Jesus - now you've whetted everyone's appetite. Reveal yourself!
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| Alan wrote: | | Albrecht Durer, Jesus - now you've whetted everyone's appetite. |
Now I look more like Lenin, but friendlier. |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Alan wrote: | | Albrecht Durer, Jesus - now you've whetted everyone's appetite. |
Now I look more like Lenin, but friendlier. |
If you go on like that, we'll soon be able to draw a robot portrait of you!! Hilarious and far from accurate, probably, though! Anyone good at drawing? |
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 14:10 pm Picture |
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| Conchita wrote: | | Anyone good at drawing? |
I am. My bachelor's degree is in painting. |
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