If people ask you if you're from another country, how do you feel?

[Deja Q]

(Assuming you're born and raised American...)

To tally:

8 think I'm from England.
3 think I'm from Australia.
1 thinks I'm from New Zealand.
2 think I'm from Scotland.
1 thinks I'm from Germany, but I have nary a clue as to why...

And why do I have an accent and speak with big obnoxious words? Simple: As a kid, I was tormented by so many that I grew up more with television than I did people. And what did I watch? PBS. And PBS is known for airing British programming... I picked up some of the mannerisms along the way... :D

[Guy Fawkes]

1. I think....

Darn it all, I wish I was; and I wish I was still there.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

2. This happend to me up in the Vogelsberg....

...the Vogelsberg is this big volcanic hill countryy near Frankfurt Am Main...I was up at the Hohe Rodskopf (the high point) inn,,sitting at a table (the Germans share tables), and my table mates though I was "Englisch" as I was so tall and thin and wearing these '70s "baggys"....

....sorry..Im an American of Polish/German ancestry....LOL....

[amerikat]

3. when they ask you what planet your from.....then it's time to worry

[Eye and Monkey]

4. I take it as a compliment. Then again, when people ask me if I'm crazy -

I take that as a compliment, too.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. It happened to me after I moved back to Minnesota

A couple of people asked where I was from. I suppose it's because I've spent about half my life in other states, but I was flabbergasted when someone asked if I was English, especially since there were several genuine English people at that particular gathering.