Poll: What is your nationality?

[Hagi]

Dutch and surprised that the Netherlands is even an option.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Boring northern England. Boring boring boring.

 

[Ziame]

Poland here. Forgive us for all the 'siemas'. I try to hunt them all down, and yet they still exist. (EU WoT players will know)

captcha: never give up.
ok, i'll hunt some more.

 

[sebashepin]

Hello everyone! I'm from Colombia and it seems i'm the first Colombian to reply. I'm actually excited to see the poll's final result.

 

[scw55]

Other - Welsh

My sentiment exactly, even though we're technically from the United Kingdom I consider myself Welsh first and foremost.

I agree United Kingdom is too broad. It's also short-sighted to assume that culturally and environmentally all countries in Britain are 'similar'. And Parliament's power over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is very little. Those three countries are technically 80% independent from England. Also when you think United Kingdom, you think England. Some English people think that English and British are interchangeable.

 

[TheOrb]

Scotland.
And Mel Gibson does not count!!!
Although Braveheart did educate people around the world on why the Scots don't like being called "English" or even "British"

 

[Ziame]

Other - Welsh

My sentiment exactly, even though we're technically from the United Kingdom I consider myself Welsh first and foremost.

I agree United Kingdom is too broad. It's also short-sighted to assume that culturally and environmentally all countries in Britain are 'similar'. And Parliament's power over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is very little. Those three countries are technically 80% independent from England. Also when you think United Kingdom, you think England. Some English people think that English and British are interchangeable.

yeah UK is a nationality as much as EU.

 

[Beliyal]

I'm from Croatia, I live in Pula [http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/37/118037-004-2BFCBC6E.jpg], and study in Zadar [http://croatia.hr/Images/t900x600-210/croatia_dalmacija_zadar_0001.jpg]. It's nice. At least something to look forward to when corruption and politicians' horrible decisions rip you off.

South Africa - land of the corrupt politicians

Not so fast in hogging that title! We in the Czech Rep are quite fond of our knack for corruption and fund funneling as well! And stand mere 0.3 points higher on international corruption ranking than you guys. Take that EU!
...
More often than not I'm quite embarrassed to be Czech...

In any case, corrupt Irish politicians and Czech politicians should have a convention to exchange ideas on how to rip us all off even more efficiently!

Oh man, you both should ask our politicians for tips on corruption. Or maybe we should just take all of them out of our countries and lock them up somewhere, like in Antarctica. I bet they would try to sell their shit to penguins.

Also, I wonder if there's a special reason to include Belgium. I mean, Belgium is great, I visited it and I loved it there, but it being a small country it doesn't seem very likely that it needs a special option. I mean, there's certainly more people on the Escapist from Germany or France or, you know, China, Russia, India, than from Belgium. So far, there are only three votes; same number as for my country for example. Nothing against Belgium though; if anything, you deserve this spot for your chocolate and waffles. That would be my reasoning at least, I wonder what's the OP's reasoning. Oh dear, I made myself sad for the lack of chocolate now

 

[Kargathia]

Yay, first to vote Netherlands, and we're even on the list for a change (which is somewhat strange since there are only 10-20 Dutch people on this board...)

Quite a few more, in my experience.

Really? Besides myself I know of 5 or 6 by (screen)name, 2 of whom I haven't seen around in ages.

It generally shows in the responses to most drugs threads, and whenever knowledge of the dutch language would be useful.

It's not exactly like I'm the only one who doesn't propagate his nationality unless it is directly related to the topic.

 

[The Last Nomad]

From what I've noticed around the site the last few years, you've got the nationalities that seem to crop up the most.

I'm from Ireland though, and there is a loada others from Ireland on the site too, certainly a lot more than from Belgium, that was an odd choice for the poll IMO.

 

[Hagi]

Other - Welsh

My sentiment exactly, even though we're technically from the United Kingdom I consider myself Welsh first and foremost.

I agree United Kingdom is too broad. It's also short-sighted to assume that culturally and environmentally all countries in Britain are 'similar'. And Parliament's power over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is very little. Those three countries are technically 80% independent from England. Also when you think United Kingdom, you think England. Some English people think that English and British are interchangeable.

Are any of the other nationalities really all that different though?

I mean all of them are completely imaginary. I don't think there's a single country on Earth that is culturally and environmentally homogeneous. Nor is there any natural observable property that can be tied to nationality.

Even a Welsh nationality is probably too broad to accurately describe someone's complete cultural background. There's bound to be any number of significant differences between a Welsh person having lived his whole life in Cardiff and one with a more rural background.

Not saying in any way or form that people can't call themselves Welsh. If they feel they're Welsh then that's their nationality as far as I'm concerned. But being too broad is kind of inherent to nationalities, there isn't a single one that isn't.

 

[TheRussian]

Belgium gets a poll option, but the largest country in the world doesn't? It's almost as if you added a poll to attract attention or something...

 

[Meatspinner]

Could those options be any more Anglian

I myself hail from the island of Fron. The Smokey Bay area, to be exact.

 

[Kirke]

I hail from Göteborg, Sweden. Though I don't think of myself as a swede, I think of myself as a Majbo.

 

[MetalDooley]

I like how all the listed countries are in the Anglosphere,

I'm pretty sure Belgium and The Netherlands aren't English speaking countries

OT:Another Irish guy here.From Cork in the south of the country to be exact

 

[Cosmosis]

I like how all the listed countries are in the Anglosphere,

I'm pretty sure Belgium and The Netherlands aren't English speaking countries

OT:Another Irish guy here.From Cork in the south of the country to be exact

In my defense.

The named countries were The UK, Canada, New Zealand, The US, and Australia at the time of my post. Poll's looking a little taller now.

 

[Varis]

Finland here Around 700 km north from the capital, city called Tornio. Right on the border of Sweden.

 

[Boris Chelius]

germany

 

[Realitycrash]

Sweden, Gothenburg.

We have Metal and fish. That's it. Come to Gothenburg, sit down, shut up, eat your damn Mackrill and listen to In Flames.


Yaaaaaaay... >.>

 

[StBishop]

I'm Irish as they come. I live in Dublin although my father is from Limerick (down south) which is rugby country. My mother is also from Dublin but her parents are from Northern Ireland.

As Irish as they come.
Grandparents from the UK.

Pick one.

OT: I'm a first generation Aussie of British decent. So I'm a dual citizen, yay.