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happygirl
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aaaawwwwwww  You beat me to it! |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| Boston, Massachusetts in the '50s or London, England in the '50s. |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Central Areola
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Nazareth: It's what Jesus would do. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: Newton and Brookline, Massachusetts |
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Newton and Brookline, Massachusetts are still okay, eh, and the huge numbahs of Zionists and Anti-Zionists (I'm half Reform Jew, by the way), Progresso Italians, lefty Greeks, Franco-Americans, Acadiens, and Quebecois makes me believe that these two cities are the future of the world and, thus, good places in which to be born and grow up.
Check them out and you'll see what I'm on about, etc..
R
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: Re: If you could chose where you were born, which country? |
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| They also seem to be a rational sort despite the fact they're almost all descended from criminals! |
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Estimates put it that somewhere between 5 to 15% of Australians are descended from convicts. Nearly 50% of Australians are first or second generation migrants. Needless to say those descended from convicts are proud of the fact. One of my classmates was named after his ancestor who was a convict on the First Fleet.
I'm Australian, and I don't think I'd rather have been born anywhere else but where I was when I was. It's nowhere near perfect yet its fairly egalitarian and tolerant, with many opportunities and resources readily available.
I don't believe the Australia of today is quite as innocent as the Australia I grow up in 20 years ago but kids in most parts of Australia still have plenty of open space to play sport, natural wildlife to explore and sensible school hours so they can have a balanced, yet active lifestyle. Most kids, young kids at least, seem pretty content back home. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: Re: If you could chose where you were born, which country? |
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| Kimchi Cha Cha wrote: |
| Yo!Chingo wrote: |
| They also seem to be a rational sort despite the fact they're almost all descended from criminals! |
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Estimates put it that somewhere between 5 to 15% of Australians are descended from convicts. Nearly 50% of Australians are first or second generation migrants. Needless to say those descended from convicts are proud of the fact. One of my classmates was named after his ancestor who was a convict on the First Fleet.
I'm Australian, and I don't think I'd rather have been born anywhere else but where I was when I was. It's nowhere near perfect yet its fairly egalitarian and tolerant, with many opportunities and resources readily available.
I don't believe the Australia of today is quite as innocent as the Australia I grow up in 20 years ago but kids in most parts of Australia still have plenty of open space to play sport, natural wildlife to explore and sensible school hours so they can have a balanced, yet active lifestyle. Most kids, young kids at least, seem pretty content back home. |
Mt father told me when we were watching the Thames Production, The World at War, that his bacon was saved at least a few times by Australian men when he was a seventeen year old G.I. from New England, U.S.A. in the war against Japan.
In fact, he said that they were excellent, inspiring men/fighters and, to borrow an Osceania (sp?) expression, "good mates" throughout the time he was trying like heck in such places as Manila and New Guinea to survive yet another day, etc.
My point is that Aussies have such a recorded, proud history that the fecks that make traditional-minded people from Australia worried are likely to become decent, upstanding Aussies by their mid-twenties. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| happygirl wrote: |
| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
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c'mon! |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| Switzerland or Japan for the quality of life, mind having to study English would suck. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| France or Italy. Spain or Germany would be OK, too. But not in the countryside. Paris would be a great choice! |
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RobertX
Joined: 07 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: yah |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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My parents moved to the U.S. so I can be born there and be able to do all the things I couldn't have done in Jamaica.
I can't really pick any place better. If it wasn't the U.S., it would have been Canada or The U.K.
A true win-win-win for yours truly  |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:00 am Post subject: |
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My parents moved to the U.S. so I can be born there and be able to do all the things I couldn't have done in Jamaica.
I can't really pick any place better. If it wasn't the U.S., it would have been Canada or The U.K.
A true win-win-win for yours truly :wink: |
Jamaica is still quite, quite, quite pretty, and almost all of its people are adored for their very nice personalities and sharp minds.
Let's not forget that the cuisine of the country is one of the tops in the region.
"Someday, someday, we'll get it together..."
Jamaica shall be just fine - you wait and see!
Sincerely,
R |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| I would have chosen not to be born at all.. Well not on this planet at least. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Roch wrote: |
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My parents moved to the U.S. so I can be born there and be able to do all the things I couldn't have done in Jamaica.
I can't really pick any place better. If it wasn't the U.S., it would have been Canada or The U.K.
A true win-win-win for yours truly |
Jamaica is still quite, quite, quite pretty, and almost all of its people are adored for their very nice personalities and sharp minds.
Let's not forget that the cuisine of the country is one of the tops in the region.
"Someday, someday, we'll get it together..."
Jamaica shall be just fine - you wait and see!
Sincerely,
R |
True true but it's so funny to me that if I was born in Jamaica, I wouldn't be in Korea since apparently Jamaicans don't speak English 
And before anyone jumps on me about this, let me explain. Most Jamaicans can speak "proper English". But like most people, when you are just with friends or family, you relax and speak the way you want to speak. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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