Nationality check

Unfortunately I`m Canadian. Born, raised and educated in this dump. My father was a Yorkshireman and my mother was from Glasgow, Scotland. I wish they would have stayed there and so did they. I was born in Montréal, Québec and still live here, speak both official languages.  I`m not going to go on about this sinking ship except to say that our pathetic flag looks like it was created by a kindergarden student. A leaf. I also try not to let on that I`m Canadian when travelling abroad. Nothing to be proud of unfortunately. Can`t wait for the Americans to take over.

I am German and also a bit proud of its younger history.. from 1950 on.. how they managed to built up a strong economy and peaceful country after two terrible wars and how we managed to show we left this behind. Although our politicians tell us how bad it was to show any patriotism, it is spreading again. But not with me.. to be perfectly honest, patriotism is something I dislike very much.. just can not understand how people can be proud of where they come from rather than who they are. I am not so extrem that the only connection I feel with my country is the natural caused by gravity, yet I really have other things to be proud of.. Maybe it is because of my country's history, but that truly is another topic.

Australian, father being of English/Anglo Saxon descent, and mother being half Spanish/half Filipino.
Our national anthem is atrocious, the government is not left wing enough for my liking, we are pretty much just a miniature version of the USA now culturally, the Australian accent in most major cities has become watered down and is becoming slightly more American sounding over time (but that's a good thing IMO, since the strong Australian accent is irritating), the Aborigines have an atrocious standard of living, some Sudanese dudes recently got beaten up in Melbourne for being black (ohh yay, that FAIR, UNDERSTANDING AND NON DISCRIMINATORY NATION OF OURS), our youth seems to be regressing even further, I see more what the British term "chavs' than ever before, obesity has hit and has been at a stupidly high level, people eat too much fast food..... yeah, I can kinda keep going for another 500 or so words on that, but it's getting late and can't think of more stuff.
But I guess it's kinda good being isolated from a large proportion of negative stuff like wars, living somewhere with a lower poverty and average crime rate per capita than the US, the economy has been pretty strong in recent times. We are some of the most well off people in the world, more so than many other first world countries.
I guess all in all, it's good being an Australian, although not patriotic really, that is the stuff of epic failure in world history as we have seen.


Edited by HughesJB4 - August 22 2008 at 05:13

Chameleon wrote: laplace wrote: i'm English and I'd rather be from somewhere more oppressive and focusing, perhaps one with a realistic space program.

laplace wrote: i'm English and I'd rather be from somewhere more oppressive and focusing, perhaps one with a realistic space program.

Vompatti wrote: I'm Finnish. We have nice trees.

kibble_alex wrote: I'm from England myself. I love the country and it don't feel right anywhere else, but i have one "complaint". What the hell happened to us??? We used to be one of, if not THE, most powerful country in the world. Now we are reduced to a little island of chavs, unraged OAPs and a very unstable government! Oh, and Gordon Brown, he doesn't help either. So what happened? Did we suddenly get too nice?

I'm English. I really don't care about my country, but it's nicer than most other places.

Here's a chance to tell us where you are from and how proud you are to be of that nation. Please, be as patriotic as you like! But of course, without being racist obviously.

I'm from England myself. I love the country and it don't feel right anywhere else, but i have one "complaint". What the hell happened to us??? We used to be one of, if not THE, most powerful country in the world. Now we are reduced to a little island of chavs, unraged OAPs and a very unstable government! Oh, and Gordon Brown, he doesn't help either. So what happened? Did we suddenly get too nice?

It is also worth saying that i'm of Polish origin, and very proud of it as well! Although we've had our fair share of beatings in the past 200 years, we've stuck out and remained a respectable nation. And we have Riverside

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