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flotsam
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| kermo wrote: |
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Your nationality is where ever you're born whether you like it or not.
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No, this is a bit silly. I was born in London, England and my family history is largely English and Scotland. I'm entitled to a British passport (will have one soon!) but this doesn't make me British.
I've got a Canadian accent, a distinctively Canadian attitude toward gender roles and race relations, and I'm certainly much more direct and emotionally open than a typical Brit. Like it or not, I'm Canadian.
I'd love to be more Scottish. The accent is sweet, the reputation is sturdy and there'd likely be more red-haired boys about (I love 'em, Lord help me.) |
But you're already French...wait for it....wait for it....
Ba-da-BING!
Merci, merci. I weel be heer awl week. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
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Your nationality is where ever you're born whether you like it or not.
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No, this is a bit silly. I was born in London, England and my family history is largely English and Scotland. I'm entitled to a British passport (will have one soon!) but this doesn't make me British.
I've got a Canadian accent, a distinctively Canadian attitude toward gender roles and race relations, and I'm certainly much more direct and emotionally open than a typical Brit. Like it or not, I'm Canadian.
I'd love to be more Scottish. The accent is sweet, the reputation is sturdy and there'd likely be more red-haired boys about (I love 'em, Lord help me.) |
But you're already French...wait for it....wait for it....
Ba-da-BING!
Merci, merci. I weel be heer awl week. |
Er... I don't get it.  |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Er... I don't get it. |
Surely not a frog joke? Couldn't be. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
| Er... I don't get it. |
Surely not a frog joke? Couldn't be. |
Merde! |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| *beep* no I wouldn't want to be any other nationality in the world. That certainly won't stop me from scoring both a Canadian and British passport for when I go teach in Poland, if I ever get around to that. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| I'm from the south. |
From the south of where? South Queensland? 
I love how we Americans do this. The rest of the world doesn't care less about it.
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| I'm glad I come from the country I come from. I'm even glad I come from the region I come from. |
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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: Re: Ever wish you were another nationality? |
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| Maybe its culture or politics in your home country but have you ever felt that you would like to be another nationality? |
How could anyone feel like they wish they were born into a different nationality? That's not human. |
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Canadian Club
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: |
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I carry a Canadian and a Finnish passport. I love both countries.
Who could want anything else? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
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| I'm from the south. |
From the south of where? South Queensland?
I love how we Americans do this. The rest of the world doesn't care less about it. |
Riiiiiiiight. Nobody else does this. Never heard a Brit say he's from "the North". Fact.
This is another case of "Everybody knows American geography better than they know which hemisphere my country is in" envy. Or just the good ole "Look at my backpack flag!" inferiority complex.
We love you guys. You're cute. Except Tibby. |
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ticktock
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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| nah, i think i got the nationality thing sorted, i've decided I'm Korean on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and then British (well English to be precise) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Sundays I give it a rest. |
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Hosub
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I carry a Republic of Korea passport and I wish to have no other. I'd rather be an East Asian however, than just Korean. China, Japan, and Korea interests me as well. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
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Your nationality is where ever you're born whether you like it or not.
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No, this is a bit silly. I was born in London, England and my family history is largely English and Scotland. I'm entitled to a British passport (will have one soon!) but this doesn't make me British.
I've got a Canadian accent, a distinctively Canadian attitude toward gender roles and race relations, and I'm certainly much more direct and emotionally open than a typical Brit. Like it or not, I'm Canadian.
I'd love to be more Scottish. The accent is sweet, the reputation is sturdy and there'd likely be more red-haired boys about (I love 'em, Lord help me.) |
You're right. My post was badly written and my real feelings about nationality are hinted at in my third paragraph, not the second:
"I've got an Irish and Spanish heritage but my sole loyalty is to the country I was 1. born, 2. brought up and 3. educated in."
Nationality is pretty complicated. I think a French guy who's 40 yet moved to England when he was 13 is still a Frenchman.
But - and I've met many people like this - folks with (country-x) parents yet were born, brought up, educated in, speak the national language of country-y (and rarely if ever step foot on country-x) are Country-Y-ish. They just ARE. Genetic heritages mean bugger all in my opinion and people who limp around on the crutches of a self-assigned socio-racial identity, setting themselves apart and aloof from their surroundings, are to be pitied. Nationality just cannot be something that's chosen. It has to be objective and family heritages make it too complicated. Buck has to stop at where you, ultimately, commonsensically, are from.
My view has very positive consequences for race relations, because whether you're a black guy, a brown woman or a chap from Pluto, you're bloody British whether you say so or not if you're born there, lived there all your life and never been 'home'. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| My view has very positive consequences for race relations, because whether you're a black guy, a brown woman or a chap from Pluto, you're bloody British whether you say so or not if you're born there, lived there all your life and never been 'home'. |
and that's why immigration (for the most part) works in the united states and is an abysmal failure in europe. |
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