This editor played Rheba, the stereotypical Black maid character in her college production of ''You Can't Take it With You.'' As there were precious few Black actors to be found, the vaguely offensive character was given a RaceLift into an Irish Immigrant. I am not Irish.

This troper played Rheba as well! Except there was no RaceLift, she and her friend who played Donald were simply Not Black. She found it, at certain times, to be awkward and uncomfortable.

Bizarre TruthInTelevision example: This troper's family is Caucasian and of Irish/German (with 1/16th of Spanish) descent. We all look Dark Irish: dark brown hair with brown eyes and fair, freckled skin. My 11-year-old sister, who has golden-brown hair and tans really easily, is playing a ''Hispanic'' girl in her middle school's drama club play about character traits. I think the teacher thought, "She's got brown hair and brown eyes, and we have no Mexican kids. Instead of revising the script, we'll cast the little Irish-American girl as a Mexican-American, and the audience won't be able to tell the difference." This troper was rather shocked when she found out about the casting choice.

ThisTroper has worked with a couple of directors over the years. They have ranged from EthnicBlindness to "you look right for it, we'll work out the talent/sound later." Hilarity tended to ensue with various casting decisions.

In ''{{The Princess and the Swineherd}}'', her father, playing the emporer, has a line commenting on how he sees the family resemblence between the solidly-black, stocky black guy and his skinny, reddish-blond-haired white brother.

In ''{{Arsenic and Old Lace}}'' the main character, Mortimer, was played by the only guy in the cast who was black. What's the revelation at the end? He's not actually related to anyone else in the cast.

Perhaps the most egregious of these was when we did ''{{The Sound of Music}}'' Capt. von Trapp was black; his first child was half-black, half-korean; his second child was played by the actor's son, so half-black, half-white; third and fifth children were purely caucasion blondes; fourth child was half-white, half-Korean; and the two youngest were played by a pair of half-white, half-Hawaiian...mormons. The running joke in the play, was that Mrs. von Trapp had been lonely when the Captain was away. Rolf (supposedly 17) was played by a 29-year-old in the very advanced stages of balding. Yeah...he kept his hat on.

In a more recent production, the director cast a bit less blindly, which actually worked very well. In ''{{Honk}}'', a musical about the Ugly Duckling, most of the cast is white or at least light-skinned (with a ball-cap, you can pass asian kids off well enough), with the star being black. Some of the other birds are a bit more color-distributed, but the ducks are white and the swans are black, or at least partially black. This was all subtly enough done without giving people parts they didn't deserve that the show was a hit.

This troper roleplays a lot of foreign characters in PlayByPostGames. He's done two Russians, a German, a Frenchwoman and several Americans. He's yet to actually RP a guy from his native London.

Similarly, this Troper tends to use Japanese characters in PlayByPostGames. So far, the only ongoing one is the "ITT: We are our avatars" topic in TV Tropes Forum... though I'm intending to use "Dr. Okagawa" as my screenname at the SCPFoundation.

Also, a RealLife example: On Halloween, my costume was a kabuki actor. With the kabuki paint stuff on, you couldn't really recognize me. The only thing that tipped off Sensei was my glasses, my totally-not-Japanese accent, and of course my perpetually-messy hair.

This troper, who had a mild HeroicBSOD over his poor skill in his native language after visiting relatives who couldn't speak English, let alone as well as he could, calls himself "purple" in the TroperIRCChannel.

There was an African-American at my school who pretended to be British by just having a British accent. Why did he do this? I have no idea.

What's the point of mentioning his race? Being British is a nationalistic attribute, not racial.

This troper during her sorta-actress career/hobby pursuit has played Italians and Brits a few times - and there's probably a couple more. She is in fact American-raised with a Canadian accent and has no idea what she actually is ethnically.

Well, I'm German and My nickname is "Lord" (don't ask). It happens quite often, that I tell those who ask why, that I'm actually a descendant of a noble family from Ireland. If I meet these persons again and I tell them I'm actually just plain old boring German, they are usually all "Wow, I totaly believed you". Pretty strange, since my Englisch is not especialy Irish or anything...

I'm about half-Finn and half random European countries. My (Finnish) last name is spelled Somero. I also have the habit of speaking with various weird accents. People usually think I'm hispanic or something.

MacPhisto is one-fourth Mexican, technically Hispanic. However, he has pale skin and blue eyes. Most people he meets think he's full of it. Just for the sake of messing with their minds, he speaks with a different accent every week.

This troper has a very unusual speech impediment/accent. In the US, I'm usually told I sound British. When I visited England, I was told I sounded Russian. I have been able to convince people I've come from many countries, from South Africa, Japan, Albania, Russia, England, Canada, Brazil, and Israel. I have only visited the aforementioned England.

This troper is able to- going by his own opinion, and opinions of others- flawlessly fake accents from many countries of the world, and has convinced people he's anything but his native English. For an entire university year, he convinced a girl in his lectures that he was Irish, whilst also having another- who sat not too far from the first girl- that he was Welsh. He's convinced Americans he is American, had a Frenchman ask him where in France he was from, and made his (ex)fiancee think he was Australian, same as her.

This troper picked up his first girl while faking to be an american for a whole night. Sadly, it hasn't worked since.

This Tropettes friend was visiting, and we decided to hang out with another kid who lives across the street from me. my first friend donned a british accent and played a prank that continues every time these two friends meet, and to this day my neighbor thinks my michigan-born friend is an englander named Angelina. Seriously.

This Filipina troper who grew up in New Zealand has an American accent from living in Michigan a year as a kid. Working at Disney World and thus having "New Zealand" on her nametag, she got so sick of people attempting to tell her about New Zealand, calling her out on her lack of accent, or outright not believing the nametag that she had a nametag made saying she was from Michigan. No one doubted it.

This Filipino troper, who grew up until the age of 15 there before moving to the US, had a clean American English sound even before moving here, and is often mistaken for being American. It gets even worse whenever he goes to visit his home town. One time, he went to visit and met some people a couple of years younger than him, and as a joke, faked not being able to speak only English. Even better was that he knew a lot of these kids parents, and a lot of their school teachers, and they all played along.

One of my college teachers was Finnish, but had a New England-sounding accent.

This troper's friends and acquaintances regularly ask him is he is Russian, French, British, German, Austrailian, or Dutch, yet I have lived in the same house in the Ozarks my entire life. Of course, when talking to myself (and frequently other people), it's not in English, but rather French, German, or Russian; and when I do speak English, it sounds like a mix between Canadian, Midwestern, and Received Pronunciation.

When we were in high school, this troper's friends realized that the coupons we had for Burger King were expired by a few days... so three of us faked accents so that the guy would let us use the coupons. The one who didn't fake an accent didn't get to use her coupon. She was annoyed at that.

This troper, with her dark hair and dark eyes (but rather pale skin), and ability to speak Spanish fluently, gets mistaken for Hispanic quite frequently. This troper actually had a group of guys come up to her at work and say they had a bet as to whether she was Cuban, Castillian, or Argentinian. When this troper answered "Neither, I'm mostly Irish, Welsh, and Dutch," they refused to believe me. To be fair, this troper does speak Castillian Spanish fluently, with a few Cubanismos due to growing up in south Florida.

This tropette, who was born and raised in California by a Japanese mother and an Irish-American father, can speak with a flawless Australian accent despite having never been to the country. I do this to disguise a speech impediment I had as a kid, and also because I watch an obscene amount of Lost.

There was a girl in my class who gave a presentation in a British accent for no apparent reason. The presentation had nothing to do with England, and she never used the accent again.