Quote from: peky on April 13, 2013, 04:52:02 PM
and just to think I belived you were a Cockney....now I understand the "kia Ora" business you are a Māori...now where the "Kuan Yin" comes from...are you partially Chinese?
Kia Ora Peky,
Afro-Caribbean father [Jamaican-Jamaican Patois,] Anglo-Saxon mother [English-Londoner-Cockney] Produced me=Afro-Saxon 'tanned' Cockney[I got my mother's accent] ...No doubt in another life I was also Chinese...
Mind you when living in Oz I was once mistaken for Chinese...Weird but true...
When I first arrived in Oz I met Aussies who thought I was 'faking' my accent, because they had never seen a 'coloured' Pom before...Australia did at the time [when I emigrated] have an "All White Immigration Policy" I got in because they 'assumed' I was of Mediterranean descent which for the Aussie immigration officials was good enough=white enough...
Not that I mind, after all, over the years I've been mistaken for Brazilian, Spanish, French [South of France people have dark skin], Greek, Italian, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, Japanese... Occasionally some get it right and say things like "Are you part Jamaican ?" Or "You must have some West Indian blood in you !"
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I forgot my all time favourite weirdness=When living on the Danish island of Bornholm, I worked in a youth hostel and during a lunch break-I was sitting in the lounge reading the 'GodFather' and a young American backpacker said "Wow! your English is good enough for you to read a book in English !" Remember I have tanned skin, curly hair and slight African facial feature, however when I go to the beach 'which I did quite often' the sun and salt water used to bleach my hair-I'd end up with blond sun bleached streaks through it, so it would seem he thought blond hair=Danish- tanned skin=I tanned easily in the summer sun...I mean, how far could I possible be from a Nordic features, blue eyed, blond hair Scandinavian-but weird things do happen ! }
But all jokes aside, here in Aotearoa [NZ] people, 'especially overseas tourists' think I'm Maori, or part Maori...My ex is Pākehā [European White New Zealander] when we were together and our 'countries of birth' came into the topic of conversation with strangers, their first thoughts were, that I was the Kiwi [Maori] and my ex was the Pom [English]...
I tend to call 'home' wherever the body happens to be...
Metta Zenda
