Have you ever been mistaken for another race, ethnicity?

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Used to wear my hair in bangs like a British rockstar.
Maybe listening to the Who and watching lotsa Monty Python effected my speech- but fellow Americans I met often thought I was a Brit ("you look AND sound like one").

One young lady customer on the phone of my store asked if I was Canadian "because my boyfriend is Canadian, you talk him"- I guess Canadians have a kinda intermediate-between-american-and-british accent.

Counting change gets boring in a long day behind the cash register, so in one store I worked at I would count in Spanish under my breath just to relieve boredom. A couple of hispanic workmen I served thought I was a fellow hispanic and one said to the other "see, he's one." I had almost black hair and a dark mustache back then. And some folks said that I could "pass for Latin".

Some people have thought I was Asian. Most people think I'm Polish, and they're right. They tend to not notice that I'm also Native American, but that might be why they think I look Asian.

One of my grandparents was black, one was full native American, and the other two were Jews/white.

When people meet my family they sometimes ask if I'm adopted. People have said things like "But your hair is perfect!" or "You have such a nice complexion!"(I don't even know what that means in regards to my heritage?) or tell me I look "so white" as if they are complimenting me.

Yeah though, I'm not annoyed that people think I'm entirely white, by looking at me it's impossible to tell I'm not. I just get annoyed when people all but congratulate me for how white I look.

People used to say I looked "British" now they assume I'm of middle eastern descent. My features changed as I got older, which is weird.