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Title: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Trumpeldor on November 29, 2007, 06:25:13 PM
I'm Ashkenazi but today I was asked if I was an Arab by a complete stranger who worked at a store in the mall. When I replied "No" he appeared stunned and said I looked Arab and that at least one of my parents must be one. He said that he was Lebanese.

Ashkenazi Jews, even though amongst them they differ widely in features, don't typically look like Arabs, yet this is the 5th or 6th time in the last year that someone has mistaken me for one.

Maybe I should learn Arabic and go undercover.
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: judeanoncapta on November 29, 2007, 06:30:59 PM
They'll be able to detect you, forget it.
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: newman on November 29, 2007, 06:35:31 PM
I'm Ashkenazi but today I was asked if I was an Arab by a complete stranger who worked at a store in the mall. When I replied "No" he appeared stunned and said I looked Arab and that at least one of my parents must be one. He said that he was Lebanese.

Ashkenazi Jews, even though amongst them they differ widely in features, don't typically look like Arabs, yet this is the 5th or 6th time in the last year that someone has mistaken me for one.

Maybe I should learn Arabic and go undercover.

I'd smash somebody who called me a sandape!
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: kellymaureen on November 29, 2007, 06:40:25 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)

Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: newman on November 29, 2007, 06:44:14 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)



If you roll in dog poop, don't wash for six weeks and wear a bag you might. :D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Trumpeldor on November 29, 2007, 06:45:29 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)



If you roll in dog poop, don't wash for six weeks and wear a bag you might. :D

OMFG
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: JTFFan on November 29, 2007, 06:51:30 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)



If you roll in dog poop, don't wash for six weeks and wear a bag you might. :D

lol :::D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: kellymaureen on November 29, 2007, 07:01:49 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)



If you roll in dog poop, don't wash for six weeks and wear a bag you might. :D

 :::D  ewwwwwwwwwwwww
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: newman on November 29, 2007, 07:04:49 PM
I never get mistaken for an arab ::)



If you roll in dog poop, don't wash for six weeks and wear a bag you might. :D

 :::D  ewwwwwwwwwwwww

Well, it's like Chaim says.............."What a farshtunken people!"
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Kiwi on November 29, 2007, 07:05:05 PM
Oh thats just not nice, but goes to prove must don't know that they are talking about. Like Kelly no one has taken me as Arab.

But once an Arab tried to buy me, he offered 3 camels to my husband, I was greatly insulted.

I am worth at least 5!  :::D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: kellymaureen on November 29, 2007, 07:07:38 PM
Oh thats just not nice, but goes to prove must don't know that they are talking about. Like Kelly no one has taken me as Arab.

But once an Arab tried to buy me, he offered 3 camels to my husband, I was greatly insulted.

I am worth at least 5!  :::D

How freaking insulting is that....I would have wanted at least a couple goats and a sheep thrown in (that way he could sleep with THOSE  and leave me the hell alone :::D  )
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Kiwi on November 29, 2007, 07:09:34 PM
Well those were the days when the Arabs new their place in the ME, thats a long time ago  :::D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: newman on November 29, 2007, 07:10:18 PM
Oh thats just not nice, but goes to prove must don't know that they are talking about. Like Kelly no one has taken me as Arab.

But once an Arab tried to buy me, he offered 3 camels to my husband, I was greatly insulted.

I am worth at least 5!  :::D

How freaking insulting is that....I would have wanted at least a couple goats and a sheep thrown in (that way he could sleep with THOSE  and leave me the hell alone :::D  )

The purpose of an arab's wife is to HOLD his sheep, goats and camels for him so they don't kick or bite. :D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Electra on November 29, 2007, 07:25:57 PM
I got mistaken for a Turk and an Egyptian, by some Pakistanis. Apparently Pakis are not familiar as to what Egyptians look like....or Turks.
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Daniel Ben Hanania on November 29, 2007, 08:58:15 PM
Lol :) I wont shave my beard for a week or so and we will go undercover together :):):)
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Eliezer Ben Avraham on November 29, 2007, 09:28:43 PM
Yea, Arabs wouldn't mistake me for one of them... Too light skinned and Jewish
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Merkava on November 30, 2007, 04:06:34 AM
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Yea, Arabs wouldn't mistake me for one of them... Too light skinned and Jewish

 I look like a cross between George Clooney & Brad Pitt and people always ask me if I am Jewish.
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: JTFFan on November 30, 2007, 05:43:07 AM
I'm Ashkenazi but today I was asked if I was an Arab by a complete stranger who worked at a store in the mall. When I replied "No" he appeared stunned and said I looked Arab and that at least one of my parents must be one. He said that he was Lebanese.

Ashkenazi Jews, even though amongst them they differ widely in features, don't typically look like Arabs, yet this is the 5th or 6th time in the last year that someone has mistaken me for one.

Maybe I should learn Arabic and go undercover.

I'd smash somebody who called me a sandape!

Same here, although my mom has been mistaken for a Jew. O0
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Dexter on November 30, 2007, 05:44:57 AM
Some Arabs in Israel thought I'm Arab and started talking to me in Arabic.
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: newman on November 30, 2007, 05:46:48 AM
Some Arabs in Israel thought I'm Arab and started talking to me in Arabic.
Learn how to say "mohammed's a pig" in arabic. :D
Title: Re: Mistaken for an Arab today
Post by: Trumpeldor on November 30, 2007, 05:47:41 AM
Some Arabs in Israel thought I'm Arab and started talking to me in Arabic.
Learn how to say "mohammed's a pig" in arabic. :D

He could go to prison for that.