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11/18 :)

What’s really wild to me is having spent time in both Mexico and Thailand, I have seen some people in Mexico that could have a twin in Thailand. That was really unexpected.

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This is a really interesting comment. Sometimes when I see photos of native people from South America (especially anything Amazonian), they do look a bit South East Asian to me. Do you think those people that you saw in Mexico were mixed (or fully) native (not European by descent)?

Asians and indigenous people from the Americas are somewhat closely related (the Americas were populated from Asia not too terribly long ago, about 20,000 years), so it makes sense.

My Vietnamese friend and I once went to a Philippine food festival. Most of the Filipino people there tried to talk to my friend in Tagalog. He’d talk back to them in Vietnamese. Granted, he doesn’t look Vietnamese to me, either. He looks like an islander.

I have an Indian friend who often gets mistaken for Hispanic in the Southern US.

I'm from NZ (mostly european but part Maori heritage) and have had people talk to me in foreign languages, ask me in the supermarket if I'm from Spain (weird), give me random discounts etc.

I also get "you look/feel so familiar" a lot.

Happy to know I'd fit in in a number of places haha

I got 11/18 on architechture, and like 4/18 on food. Thought those would be reversed!

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