Ich scheine deutsch.

The overwhelming consensus is that with my reasonably angular glasses, short hair, and wardrobe, that to the average stranger I seem to be German. Overall, not bad, at least I look somewhat Euro.
Comunque, as Fulvia said, "we like almost all Americans. Really, it just so happens that no one likes Bush, not even you. So if you looked American, it would be ok, because Italians really like Americans."

This morning I rode into work with her, and it was so funny, because she says she works at San Giovanni, and it's true, she works in an extraterritorial zone of the Vatican, adjacent to the Loggia della Benedizione in the Lateran Palace built by Sixtus V. Not bad.