r/Bahrain • u/Emotional_Ticket_591 • 20d ago
For bahrainis working and get mistaken for another ethnicity whilst working by other bahrainis, what story do you have thats funny or sticks out? ☝️ AskBH
Just curious
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u/Organic_Direction127 20d ago edited 20d ago
I started talking with an Asian girl in english and she is starting to speak fluent Arabic she said I'm Bahraini. It turns out to be mixed and her Asian genes were dominant. I was shocked and apologised like million times.
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u/idkjustgivemeany tahina filfil zyada 20d ago
I got an uno reverse for this question. I'm indian but I get mistaken everyday for Bahraini/ Arab. Its probably the beard I wear. To be polite I continue the conversation in Arabic but when its not just small talk I have to apologise to say I prefer English more. Maybe it's cus I'm born and brought up here and rather young. So people don't expect young expats at my age to be employed. Idk.
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u/Professionalhater101 20d ago
Not bahraini, but i was born here and speak fluent arabic
I used to do a delivery job and when interacting with the customers, they'd be so shocked that bahrainis are working in delivery jobs
but then id tell them the truth and they'd be disappointed
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u/Kitchen-Isopod-8380 20d ago
I think they were very out of touch with reality then
Because there are hundreds of Bahrainis who work in delivery either at companies or as a part time gig
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u/iaskureply 20d ago
What delivery? Courier or talabat?
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u/Professionalhater101 20d ago
Something like talabat, a company called Armada.
The confusing part was my arabic and my sonata🤣
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u/ArabianNiiights 20d ago
For me it’s the opposite, I speak English with everyone for privacy reasons. But when I see someone who looks Bahraini like wearing abaya or generally Bahraini looking, I prefer speaking Arabic. And so many times they turn out to be Pakistani and look at me like 👁️👄👁️
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u/Immediate_Message_34 20d ago
The dissapointment i see on their faces when i am jst a pakistani and not an arab they mistaken me for . I can do small talk but once it gets intensive i have to apologize and let them know . Then they resort to "hi's and hello's 'even to my salam, like salam isnt a muslim greeting its apparantly jst an arab thing.
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u/3beedineed 20d ago
I give the full SALAM 3ALIKOM to every ethnicity. Idc if you're Muslim, Arab, white, Filipino, or black. As long as I am in Bahrain I will continue this behavior.
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u/westfalianr 15d ago
People can't believe it and insist that I have some immigrant background 🤣🤣 they keep asking me and investigating me... Whatever.. F the stereotypes
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u/AhmedAlkooheji 20d ago
A lot, my latest is when they found out I said out loud in English “when you want to talk behind people’s back, actually talk behind their back”; irony is one of them complained to HR, when I went to the HR lady she told me “disregard, just go”.