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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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I like hearing about other people's home countries if its some place I've never been. I sometimes like talking to people about my home as well, but not often.
But do I really care? Naah. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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So, do you live around here often?
(Steve Wright) |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Who here doesn't care what country they're from? |
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| tfunk wrote: |
| I don't care what country I'm from. Who wants to join me? |
Good call. I hate the whole parrotted "Where are you from " line.
Often i just bypass it and don't say. Its soooo boring.
I suggest everyone adopt a new conversation starter on first meeting instead. How about "Where are you headed in life?" Its a lot more relevant after all. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I hate people whose icebreaking question is "Where are you from?" |
You must hate a lot of people. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
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| . Countries ( apart from islands ) are artificial political constructions. |
Ok I'm quibbling, but islands are artificial political constructions also. Go far enough back and that island was probably filled with hundreds of little kingdoms or whatever and many different languages/dialects. |
Or there just happens to be more than one artificial political structure on one island
i.e. Haiti and the Dominican Republic or Saint Martin (French: Guadelope) and Saint-Martin (Dutch: St. Maarteen-Netherland Antilles)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Caribbean |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Alyallen"]
| JMO wrote: |
| Satori wrote: |
| . Countries ( apart from islands ) are artificial political constructions. |
Ok I'm quibbling, but islands are artificial political constructions also. Go far enough back and that island was probably filled with hundreds of little kingdoms or whatever and many different languages/dialects. |
Or there just happens to be more than one artificial political structure on one island
i.e. Haiti and the Dominican Republic or Saint Martin (French: Guadelope) and Saint-Martin (Dutch: St. Maarteen-Netherland Antilles)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Caribbean[/quot
I like visiting my home country. I always dreamed of visiting far away countries when I was younger. Even growing up I only say my bothers and sisiters about 1 or 2 times a year. SO i can't really say I miss my family.
I'm from one country, I work in KOrea, and my wife lives in China. |
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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Imagine there's no country...
Yeah, I'd join that club but let's face it many people who choose to live overseas probably would. As a general rule, we tend to be more "global" minded. |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I don't see it as an issue of "pride" or "nationalism", it's about gratitude. Our forefathers built free and prosperous nations so that their descendents, you, could have better lives. I doubt they would appreciate their great great great great grandkids p*ssing on their graves by smugly declaring it makes no difference to them whether they were Australian or North Korean.
I do care where I'm from because it has provided me with priviliges that most countries do not give to their own citizens. Lucky - yes. Ungrateful - no. I won't be foregoing my citizenship anytime soon as I've seen enough of the world to understand very clearly which side my bread's buttered on. |
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