How English do I look?

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04 Nov 2012, 6:55 am

http://i.imgur.com/0yCig.png

I posted this picture on another forum and people were saying I looked Native American, Jewish, Asian, even black! :lol: Personally I think I look pretty English/Irish, which is my heritage. I do have a bit narrow eyes and a widish nose, maybe that's what people picked up upon? But both of those traits imo are pretty common in the UK and Ireland.

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04 Nov 2012, 7:19 am

as english as apple pie

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04 Nov 2012, 8:28 am

You look American.

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04 Nov 2012, 8:29 am

Is there a correct answer for this?

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04 Nov 2012, 3:01 pm

I don't really know what English is supposed to look like.

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04 Nov 2012, 3:14 pm

b9 wrote:

as english as apple pie

I,,, I dont get this. is apple pie english?

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04 Nov 2012, 4:48 pm

You seem more Scottish to me.

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04 Nov 2012, 4:56 pm

Michaelis wrote:

b9 wrote:

as english as apple pie

I,,, I dont get this. is apple pie english?

maybe it's responsible for the rotten-teeth stereotype about brits

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04 Nov 2012, 6:21 pm

Michaelis wrote:

b9 wrote:

as english as apple pie

I,,, I dont get this. is apple pie english?

Apple pie is American, meaning b9 doesn't think the original poster looks English at all.

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04 Nov 2012, 6:23 pm

I vote "Korean-American".

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04 Nov 2012, 6:27 pm

American.

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04 Nov 2012, 6:29 pm

IdahoRose wrote:

Apple pie is American, meaning b9 doesn't think the original poster looks English at all.

No it isn't - the original recipes for apple pie go back to 14th century England. See here (http://wanttoknowit.com/who-invented-apple-pie/).

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04 Nov 2012, 6:33 pm

Tequila wrote:

IdahoRose wrote:

Apple pie is American, meaning b9 doesn't think the original poster looks English at all.

No it isn't - the original recipes for apple pie go back to 14th century England. See here (http://wanttoknowit.com/who-invented-apple-pie/).

Oh, OK. I was just going by the popular expression "American as apple pie", which means all-American. Guess everyone in my country must be mistaken then.