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What's your nationality?
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What's your nationality?
American
25%
 25%  [ 20 ]
English
10%
 10%  [ 8 ]
Scottish
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Irish
2%
 2%  [ 2 ]
Canadian
35%
 35%  [ 28 ]
Australian
7%
 7%  [ 6 ]
New Zealander (I hope that's right)
10%
 10%  [ 8 ]
South African
1%
 1%  [ 1 ]
European
1%
 1%  [ 1 ]
Other (maybe specify by posting below)
6%
 6%  [ 5 ]
Total Votes : 79

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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Badmojo wrote:
kangnamdragon wrote:
Badmojo wrote:
Okay, we got some action on this thread. Keep it coming people.

How many users are registered on Dave's?

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4,160


So once the 41st and a half person votes, we'll be at 1%.

I'm no sociology student, but that's enough empirical data for me to start making broad unfounded generalizatons about EFL teachers in Korea.


I'd say only about 100 of the 4160 post regularly.
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and I read somewhere that new zealanders were the top ethnic race here teaching!! hahahahah yeah right!!! as I said canada has always been on top even back in 96-97 it was canadians everywhere you met and americans!!
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Badmojo



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

New Zealanders are currently outpacing the Aussies.

Okay.

Keep the votes coming in.
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funplanet



Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

3 passports currently: US (born there)/Irish (passed on from father and grandfather)/Canadian (from father as well)
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matthewwoodford



Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crois wrote:
Coming from an Ouzzie. Hey one of your states is named after Wales.


Yeah, in fact named after only *part* of Wales. Laughing
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matthewwoodford



Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kangnamdragon wrote:
masuro wrote:
I'm Korean.


We need more Koreans to post here.


We need Koreans to advise us poor ignorant wegukin. Harin's thread is cool: she should have a permanent advice page.
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chinook



Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Location: canada

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the wales discussion had me thinking back to funny times...

when i worked in scotland, a bunch of us had a competition to see who could name all 50 states-being Canadian, I suppose I had an unfair advantage and won with 49 out of 50 (annoyingly I forgot Ohio).

Then we decided, being very bored, that we would try to name all the countries in the world, which quickly degenerated into a several month argument as to whether or not scotland and wales are countries, the definition of country vs nation state, etc.

in the end, we nowhere near managed our goal-to name the 193 countries recognised by the UN. After naming about half of them, none of us could come up with anything else.
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Gosp



Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: 85% There.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was born in Fresno, California. Moved to Northwest Arkansas at age two �� with the folks. Seattle at twelve years of age, then south to Monterey, CA. Los Angeles during the riots of '92. Migrated to Austin, Texas in the latter part of the same year. Orlando, Florida during 1999. Seattle, again, for the first part of 2000, then back to Austin for the last four years. I hope to move to South Korea in August. I hold an American passport but I like the Welsh flag much better than the American flag:

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just because



Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my experience it has been in order of amount of teachers
1. Canada (by a country a mile - maybe more than all the others put together- they will start calling it little canada soon)

2. New Zealand (The asians are moving in and the NZers are moving here - like an exchange program)

3. British (there are SO many in japan though)

4. Australians (not sure why there are not too many here)

5.Americans (might have something to do with the crappy exchange rate more than the anti-U.S. sentiment)

6.Irish (great people to drink with if a little aggro at times)

7.South Africans (one director told me South Africans are the scum of the ESLers - to be honest I've only met three and they were some of the best drinkers I ever met so great company).
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JacktheCat



Joined: 08 May 2004

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is my nationality?

I carry an American passport and my parents are American.

but ...

I was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and spent the majority of my young life in Africa and majority of my adult life in east Asia.

Most of my cultural exposure has been to British culture (such as it is).

What is my nationality?
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Gosp



Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: 85% There.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JacktheCat,

I think you're officially a citizen of Earth. Surprised
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just because wrote:

5.Americans (might have something to do with the crappy exchange rate more than the anti-U.S. sentiment)
Speaking of crappy exchange rates, this Canadian is making much less than he used to (2-3 years ago) here due to the crappy exchange rate. I think Aussies are in the same boat, aren't they?
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Badmojo



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="just because"]In my experience it has been in order of amount of teachers
1. Canada (by a country a mile - maybe more than all the others put together- they will start calling it little canada soon)
[quote]

That's strange. It has to be the money. Look at the qualifications necessary, just a BA. America has to have at least twice as many people graduating with BA's, yet we have twice as many people here. (If you look at this poll anyway.)
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desultude



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
Zed

I think Aussies are in the same boat, aren't they?


Actually the Australian dollar has been getting better (cheaper) lately. The U.S. dollar has gotten more expensive, a lot more expensive, lately.
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

desultude wrote:
Quote:
Zed

I think Aussies are in the same boat, aren't they?


Actually the Australian dollar has been getting better (cheaper) lately. The U.S. dollar has gotten more expensive, a lot more expensive, lately.
That's good news. I hadn't been paying close attention since January since I hadn't been sending anything home. I just checked now and the Canadian dollar has gone from 79 to 72 cents since. Great news (for me).
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