Poll: Where Are You From?

[Yan-Yan]

Wow. when I started this I was really hoping there would be more than one South African. Now it just looks stupid....

I was wondering how South Africa got a spot on the poll, but Canada was oddly absent.

 

[RedSigma]

There are enough Canadians here to justify a choice for them. I'm Canadian and still trying to decide whether to be proud or not.

I'm Canadian and I am very very proud to be. I think the reason some of you are skeptical is because you really don't know how awesome it is to be Canadian. I lived in Russia for 3 years and got to travel the world and let me tell you, that experience really made me realize how awesome Canada is. It's the love. Every country I ever visited I was greeted with such kindness just because I was Canadian. India, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, and many other places I visited gave me such great insight into what the rest of the world is like. And at the end of the day, I couldn't think of a better place to live then Canada. I could go on about things like our Health Care, low crime rates and what not but thats not needed. All I'm saying is to anyone who's Canadian in this forum and not sure how to feel about their patriotism, you wont really know until you've seen what its like to live someplace else.

 

[Niniux]

Canada, eh.

 

[John Galt]

I'm from America's wang, Florida. While I don't really care about patriotism, I do madly love Florida. It's a lovely state and the people are nice. Your South enougn so you get that trademark hospitality yet by the grace of the FMS, my community doesn't have any of the negative connotations a southern city would. We don't have Bible-thumpers, we don't have trailers upon trailers, and racism is pretty uncommon, even behind closed doors. Of course this is only in Pinellas County, probably the richest one in the state. Central and Norhern Florida are more Southern ironically but for the most part things are nice in this state.

 

[Smiles]

I am not of this planet...

but seriously, I prefer not to affilitate myself with one particular country or state, and its not because I'm from the states, because I'm not from the states

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

American, here, and I feel somewhat lucky, all things considered, rather than proud of that fact. I have a great deal of state and civic pride, though.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Wow. when I started this I was really hoping there would be more than one South African. Now it just looks stupid....

Its one more then I thought it would be.

 

[Saskwach]

Australian and reasonably proud of it- IF YOU DON'T LOVE IT, TELL US WHAT BOTHERS YOU AND WE'LL THINK ABOUT CHANGING IT isn't quite as pithy, though.

 

[aussiesniper]

australian, but if you saw me, you would think I was a british person. I have a strong british accent, with a little bit of a boston accent on the side.

 

[Apone]

England-land here. Not really proud of it, don't actually give a hoot. Pride in one's country seems to involve taking credit for anything ever done by anyone faintly related in your country, and by that token, every patriot should have a helluvalotta guilt right there. Us especially, with that minor conquesting Empire business...

I am addicted to tea though. Well I say tea, its more heated sugar solution pretending to be a hot beverage, but hey!

I wholeheartedly agree. Though I don't put sugar in any of the 10+ cups a day I drink.
My parents still remind me when I talk about Geography that in their lesson's the teacher would point to a map of the world. Half of it would be one colour, and that colour denoted that Britain had stolen it from someone else.

 

[Gavaroc]

I was born and brought up in Australia, and I've never been outside of the country, but I've always thought of myself as an Irishman.

I hate football. I hate Barbeques. I hate using certain words of Australian slang. Really I'm an Aussie in name and citizenship only, but so long as nobody expects me to watch a football match or eat barbequed food I do enjoy living in Australia.

My mother's side of the family are Irish; my grandparents moved here in the 60's to raise their children after my grandfather's soccer career ended. I plan to visit Ireland when I'm older and can afford it, and hopefully meet the remainder of my incredibly large family, of whom I do not know from a bar of soap.

 

[Lioklian]

Australian, of course!

MATE! BLOKE! BARBIE! KANAGAROoOoO!

 

[[T]rickster]

Australian. I do think we have some things to be proud of as a country, but there are other areas where we need to pull our heads out of our collective arses.

Australians used to frown on public displays of nationalism (I think we go that from the British). But recently - just in the last five years - young dickheads have taken to wearing the Australian flag as a cape and putting IF YOU DON'T LOVE IT LEAVE stickers on their utes. It's utterly dismaying. I thought we were better than that, but it seems a good proportion of the population absolutely are not. Hence the Cronulla race riots in Sydney a couple of years back. What a slap in the face.

First thing's first, i'm from Aussie too...

Secondly, hell yeah i agree with u mate... Australia's such a good place until some stupid idiots decided to bash up the ethnic groups and attempted to 'chase' them out of the country...

 

[Relaxos]

Estonia. I dare you to find it on a map.

 

[Kayevcee]

Bonny Scotland, where the wild haggis roll around on the hills and men ride commando-style on the back of the Loch Ness monster to work in the morning. Where they make whiskey, obviously. And shortbread. And mine lots and lots of chromium, according to both history and the native cancer rate.

-Nick

 

[Apone]

Estonia. I dare you to find it on a map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=estonia&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=58.42473,24.389648&spn=5.605827,17.094727&z=6

 

[ayoama]

I'm Italian and, at this very moment, not so proud of it. ;_;

 

[Anarchemitis]

Americaland Americaland bla bla bla bla bla bla (forgot the song)

"Hey, take off, yeh hoser."

Five points to whoever can tell me what movie that's from.

 

[Easykill]

There are enough Canadians here to justify a choice for them. I'm Canadian and still trying to decide whether to be proud or not.

I'm Canadian and I am very very proud to be. I think the reason some of you are skeptical is because you really don't know how awesome it is to be Canadian. I lived in Russia for 3 years and got to travel the world and let me tell you, that experience really made me realize how awesome Canada is. It's the love. Every country I ever visited I was greeted with such kindness just because I was Canadian. India, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, and many other places I visited gave me such great insight into what the rest of the world is like. And at the end of the day, I couldn't think of a better place to live then Canada. I could go on about things like our Health Care, low crime rates and what not but thats not needed. All I'm saying is to anyone who's Canadian in this forum and not sure how to feel about their patriotism, you wont really know until you've seen what its like to live someplace else.

Oh, I like Canada, I'm just unsure if patriotism is a good thing or not. It's caused a lot of problems, so it might be best to regard myself just as me instead of part of a larger entity. But Canada is nice, so I don't know.

 

[Raziel398]

United Kingdom here, cos strangely enough, neither England, nor Scotland are seperate nations anymore. I'm from England to be specific though, and I hate tea, and have never eaten a crumpet in my life. I do enjoy randomly shouting the words TALLY HO! though.