Are you Chinese? Are you Thai?

My biggest problem is being mistaken for the different celebrities. It gets tiresome some times.

Hello ryanong,this is a very funny experience .Maybe you really look like a Chinese or korean! I never travel to a foreign country ,so I don't know how people will look at me!But I think it's a good thing,you can pretend to be a Chinese or Korean and I think it will be very interesting! Whatever, you must be a very positive person and know how to enjoy you life.You know ,I want to travel and dream that oneday I can travel around world and companied by my family,and I think I will very enjoy it.And I believe I can achieve my dream~~~

I get that sometimes too. Before, I used to work in the airport and when I handle Korean flights, I'd say Korean greetings which the interpreter thought us, and the Koreans would talk to me in full sentences. Doesn't help me that my name is Jae, which is Korean-sounding. I also get mistaken for Chinese. And once, I got a compliment from a Thai passenger saying that I look like a Thai pop star back at home. I just don't let it get to me. Asians look similar sometimes so I don't get frustrated over it.

Yes this happened to me too. When I went to Thailand a long time ago they thought I was Thai and when they heard me talk, the guessing game begins. Hehehe.

I am a Filipino, and when I went to Veitnam, they thought that I was a Thai. And when I went to Thailand, the people started talking Thai to me because they thought that I was a Thai. And when I told them that I was a Filipino from Philippines, they told me that I really look like a Thai.. hehhehe

hahha...i am a chinese.now,i am studying in the south,but my hometown is in the center of my country. in my university,people always knows i am a nonlocal man,just because of my appearance and words. and ,it is easy for me to identify who is a chinese and who is a korean,thai,japanese....if i am lucky enough

In my home country it is multicultural and people all look different. Some British people a look Chinese or like a black African person. Their speech may sound British like a black man I saw on a documentary yesterday. He spoke just like any other Londoner. I look German and people sometimes think I come from Germany. I am well traveled just like the Germans. I am British and come from England. When I came out of Australia that first time I sounded Australian. People thought I was Australian due to developing their accent. I was introduced to a Mexican couple in Colombia and they were white. Funnily I chatted to a white Brazilian lady in Chile. I read about the European people emigrating to there years ago. Some people think I am American when they hear I speak English. They are perhaps more used to seeing them than Brits due to the geographical distance. I saw some Swiss people on my last trip. Switzerland has German speakers and many of these love traveling.

and so what are you? anyway, i enjoyed it when people thought when i was much younger and worked in the sun all day, they thought i was spanish. and would often talk to me in spanish and id tell them im a lot Native American not spanish. once a guy in a store insisted my oldest daughter (she was 4yrs at the time) insisted she was portarican. even when i told him he acted like i lied like i didnt know and he was portarican himself. so he said he would know. btw, i also have some dutch and irish to. im a Hienz 57! lol!!

hihi...You can not tell a person's nationality from her look, it is a very stupid question local people in some countries are askig you, you just have to smile and ignore them, don't waste too much of your time on these ignorant people who don't much clue what they are talking about, can you tell me what is the different between Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese from apperance? I think they are almost identical in appearance and skin color for some but not all, so it is just funny one can tell by merely looking at your face to know you are Vietnamese or Chinese. There are many Vietnamese of Chinese ancentry live in Vietnam, and also in Thailand, and many part of South East Asia, they are not actually Chinese but Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Singaporean, and Indonesian. You sure sound like you have many clueless and ignorant foreign friends around you by making claim that you don't like Vietnamese, so how should a Vietnamese supposed to look like??? May be only one eye or three ears.. hehe...Yes, local people always guess wrong on my nationality, but i just take it with a grain of salt and forget about thier ignorance and stupidity after an hour.

I am a Chinese, I went to overseas and lived in Caribbean for four years, many people are right by calling me Chinese. Some one do mistaken me as Japanese, Korean, and Hong Kongnese. When I visited a harbour area, many beggars asked me for cash, I do not have coins to give them, they thought I was too mean to them. They talked among themselves. " This guy is Chinese!" another guy said" No he could't be Chinese, China is big, and he is so mean, he must be from Korea." Well, it was so funny, they linked generosity with the size of country.

Well,ryanong,i am a Chinese,i never go to travel abroad,how i wish i could go to Korean,=D