Poll: What kind of Foreign are you?

[Nouw]

Korean in New Zealand here.

No I don't play Starcraft, I prefer Dawn of War myself.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

American.
Though I'm of Scottish and Welsh descent, so I call myself that when people ask.

 

[Shade184]

Aussie here.

 

[Telumektar]

Urugayan.
I'm sure there are at least a couple or more of us around here. We are always...watching.

 

[Sherlock/]

I was under the impression that Americans were the dominant nationality, possibly followed by British.

'American' is not a nationality, as America is a continent (or even two), not a country.

On a brighter note, when i see 'foreign' i read it as non-Korean. It's a starcraft thing. =)

 

[Ima842]

Paraguayan here, i believe im one of the few (if not the only)that made an account.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_VuuckvJ4sPzPo6_ymTKYMGsd0m672vcbxWgolgx8a1nTgRDox1usK9U2b8uEmT_wG1Kx4RqfkMwVTRfRFD9zDVD3zH_KFepd6eClkf4OmOdkPJAqGjl4tYG_pn2kMrPyuIXlHFb6kmzsRMnZjztbLvrDp76mOw
My response: mpanvoug LOLWUT, and it register!
BTW: captcha are getting crazier and crazier.

 

[chaosbedlam]

New Zealand and loving it!

 

[Superior Mind]

There are around 194 countries in the world that aren't the USA, I hardly say that makes it surprising when a large proportion of a particular site isn't from there.

As for myself, I'm a New Zealander. This means I'm generally either incorrectly classified as European or Australian.

 

[amadhatter]

Yarr... Canadian/Pirate

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

"Foreign".Heh. Whatever.
I´m portuguese.

 

[Latinidiot]

English... I couldn't think of a witty comment so here's a picture of a dog in a hat awesome air guitaring

He's using the wrong hands!

 

[SoopaSte123]

"Are you American or not?"
Well, technically EVERYONE should be answering "yes" because you either are or you're not. This is like playing Guess Who and the person asks "is your person a male or female?" and the correct answer would be "yes".

But I am American, yes.

 

[Bloodstain]

I'm German. You know, from the country that started two world wars.
Well, sorry about that.

 

[Merkavar]

does it really matter what your nationality is online?

also does it matter where a site is hosted?

im australian and i came her in the begining for ZP

 

[v3n0mat3]

I'm actually kind of surprised that there are more "foreigners" on The Escapist, according to the poll.

I am an American, although my Mom is from The Azores.

 

[GWarface]

Danish here... And dont call me foreign... You are foreign...

 

[Zhukov]

Australian here.

Also, bear in mind that your poll will be affected by timezones.

 

[kurupt87]

I find it odd that non-Americans have been posting that they resent being called "foreign".

Why? Are there negative connotations with this?

I'm going to assume you're not trolling and are just intellectually lazy.

"Foreign" is a subjective adjective. To an American a Brit is foreign; to a Brit an American is foreign; to a Frenchman they're both foreign.

To objectively decide someone is foreign is to create an objective standard about what is foreign and what is not, creating an objective stance on something subjective, and that can't be done without changing the meaning of the word.

There is a long standing stereotype that Americans think they're the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the most important thing going. To then use the word foreign to objectively describe all non-Americans as foreign reinforces that. It asks those non-Americans to describe themselves as foreign because to not be foreign you have to be American, which is stupid. It completely relegates their own perspective to meaninglessness; which is insulting.

I'm not foreign Sepo, you are.

Like several posters have already said, you'd get a much better idea if you put up a poll that breaks the world down into continents; Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, North America, South America. If you want it more specific than that you'd have to create a new poll for each continent, so for example Europe would become; Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe.

As it is, you're going to be left with a poll that doesn't tell you much and a shit tonne of individual posts that tell you a lot more.

 

[Nazz3]

So since I began reading the escapist, my first thoughts were that this was an internationally owned site, perhaps because ZP brought me here. But then i began looking at everything else the site has to offer, and have since discovered that escapist is based in... North Carolina maybe? i forget right now... anyway, then i'm beeboppin' around the forums and see a lot of British-type people, maybe Australian, spelling words like color as "colour" generally means that you're British-ish, or a pretentious american.

so i'm wondering, is this an american site primarily occupied by Brits? if so, why is that do you think? ZP?

You know theres more countries out there than USA, UK and Australia.

And Im finnish