>>There are many jokes about this "misconception" :) We were told we were Jews in Russia. We are told we are Russians in America. Even in Israel, Russian Jews are called Russians. So, ironically, if we want to maintain our ethnic background, we have to live in Russia/Ukraine :)
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>If it may make it easier to you, I was frequently thought to be a Russian while in the US.
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>At least, nobody here tried to call me an American... more than once.
I think because we all have an eastern European accent. Americans spot me pretty quickly. My wife came here (to the USA) as a teen; so she has a subtle accent that not easily identified. In fact, the southerners (American) think she is Yankee :). But accent, as I am sure you know, is not a problem in the USA. When we are in NYC, we think we are in some foreign country :) (hear more foreign language than English).
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
