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If you had to change your nationality...
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If forced to change your nationality, you would become...
American
6%
 6%  [ 3 ]
Australian
11%
 11%  [ 5 ]
British
15%
 15%  [ 7 ]
Canadian
20%
 20%  [ 9 ]
New Zealander
17%
 17%  [ 8 ]
South African
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Other
28%
 28%  [ 13 ]
Total Votes : 45

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zaneth



Joined: 31 Mar 2004
Posts: 545
Location: Between Russia and Germany
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I'd married my wife a year or so earlier I'd have had a Russian passport. But they've changed the law several times since I got married. Marriage isn't an automatic in to the country.

I think I'd like to have the Russian passport, but I don't want to give up my US one. The idea of having to let the US gov't make a decision on whether I get to visit home is rather abhorent. I was born there after all. I kind of feel like it isn't any of their business (I know they disagree). I'm sort of miffed at having to have a passport at all.

Lozwich, just how many men have you seriously considered marrying? Is this a hobby of yours?

I want a UN passport. Or a paper from the UN saying that I'm a wandering mendicant with no known military or government connections and a really nice gentle guy so please let me cross all borders and give me a glass of water if I ask for it because I would never ever torture a scorpion. Yeah, that's my answer.
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traveller



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Posts: 100
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
zaneth:
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I want a UN passport. Or a paper from the UN saying that I'm a wandering mendicant with no known military or government connections and a really nice gentle guy so please let me cross all borders and give me a glass of water if I ask for it because I would never ever torture a scorpion. Yeah, that's my answer.


I want this UN Passport. I want it BAD.

Of course, total freedom like this means that, if things turn out bad, there's no govt that will help me. But govt's aren't into helping individual citizens. [1] So it would merely make my reality more clear to the eye.

Of course, what I REALLY want to be is a Sovereign Individual, like Queen Elizabeth II. You can't TOUCH me or mine - unless I agree you can!! But I don't trust anarchy, and I don't have the cash to defend myself successfully, so I might as well move to a peaceful, quiet, 'mind you own business' land llike NZ.

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[1] see: the Korean who was excecuted recently in Iraq, despite pleas for the S.K. govt to value his life, and halt troop deployments to Iraq. "Crucial international relationships are worth a few innocent lives - like yours, for example." I doubt that the trade was worth it, but we'll see.
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lozwich



Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 1536
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
zaneth wrote:
Lozwich, just how many men have you seriously considered marrying? Is this a hobby of yours?


Only two, Zaneth. And the first one, I actually did marry. I don't think I want to go that particular path again, but would consider it for tons o cash and passport sharing conveniences.. I have Australian and British citizenship by the way.. Wink

zaneth wrote:
..give me a glass of water if I ask for it because I would never ever torture a scorpion.


Another dig at me Zaneth, or just a lucky co-incidence? It was only a little scorpion, and at least I don't go around being sadistic to flies! Razz

Have a great day,
Lozwich.
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Healer



Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 71
Location: In Beijin
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Knowing that China will be, in just a few decades, telling the planet how to breathe, I opte for the Chinese one.
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