02 March, 2008

I guess I'm pretty ethnically ambiguous

People always ask where I'm from. I like to make them guess, it's more fun. The most popular guesses are: Spanish, German, French, Turkish. I've also gotten Lebanese once and Egyptian twice, which is quite flattering on account of it means my pronunciation is decent, inshahallah. But last night something fun happened:

(imagine this in Arabic)
Man in convenience store: Where are you from?
Me: What do you think?
man: hmmm. Yugoslavia??

fantastic. how'd he guess?

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