Nationality is not ethnicity, and both are self-declared
This site records nationality and ethnicity separately, and they do not always agree. One is a stated passport, the other is appearance.
Why they are kept apart
Someone can hold a French passport and not look the way the label leads you to expect, and someone can present as East Asian while holding four different nationalities across a listing page. Collapsing the two fields into one would make the filter faster and the result worse.
Two fields, two shapes
Nationality on this register is the narrower field of the two: dozens of stated countries, each specific. Ethnicity is the broader one: a handful of appearance categories that several nationalities can share. A shortlist built only from ethnicity — Asian, for instance — spans every nationality that fits under it; a shortlist built from a single nationality such as Thai is narrower and does not carry the assumption that appearance follows automatically.
Where the two disagree, and why it is not an error
Entries do exist where the stated nationality and the stated ethnicity are not the pairing a reader would guess. That is not a mistake in the record — both fields are self-declared, kept exactly as the advertiser wrote them, and a mismatch is information rather than noise. Filtering by the wrong one of the two is the most common way a shortlist disappoints, and it is avoidable once the two fields are read as separate questions rather than one.
Neither is verified
Both are what the listing states. No document has been seen by anyone here, and no page on this site should be read as vouching for either — the one check that is performed, and what it does and does not cover, is set out in Why we publish "no checks on record".
Both fields, along with every other term a listing uses, are collected in the glossary of terms used on this register.
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