Bast, If this wasn't so sad it would be funny... My mother is white Dutch & my father's a South American Indian. I get mistaken for everything from oriental to black to North Amercian Indian as well as East to you name it. At industry trade shows I've had Japanese reps speak to me in Japanese and then look insulted when I don't understand them. When I look in the mirror I don't see any of it. I just see someone rather normally average though I must confess the rest of you look a bit odd to me... People are going to see what they want to see and I doubt this will change anytime soon. Bast, I'd just relax and let us be our silly selves. It's one of the few pleasures we have left...