What do you love about you'r own country?

[Willwillwritehiswill]

The ale. Britain has such a massive selection of beers, ales and bitters, all of which are so nuanced and varied you can spend weeks sampling all of them and still not even skim the top of the barrel (pun intended).

 

[LongAndShort]

I'm gonna follow a trend and say music. Oz has produced some mighty fine bands, such as AC/DC, Wolfmother, Jet, the Easybeats, the Angels, the Hoodoo Gurus.
And let's not forget that 'Sweet Child o' Mine' was written while the Gunners were touring Australia.

We've also got incredible landscapes, generally good weather, great native wildlife (which also form the first line of defense in case of an invasion. When the Japanese didn't land in WW2 there were a lot of dissappointed crocs, spiders, snakes, roos and drop-bears) and a mostly friendly, laid back population. Our beaches also kick arse.

 

[Queen Michael]

Holland.

Well there's........ And the..........
You know what? There's absolutely nothing here that makes me go: "geewiz, I sure love Holland."

The time that I've spend here can very much be classified as the worse 10 years of my meagre excistence.

If I had to pick something I guess it would be the general prosperity, but frankly you can find that in half a dozen other places as well.

You've got Tom Poes by Marten Toonder. That's something great.
And cheaper Oreos than in Sweden.

Now, first of all, it's spelled "your", and not "you'r".
And secondly, the music is d*** good.
The country's Sweden, if you didn't know,
and our music is among the best
the world has ever see- uh, I mean heard.

Too bad you fucking sucked at the last Eurovision Song Contest.
GERMANY ALL THE WAY!!!
(If you haven't noticed I live in Germay)
What I like about my country? The food.

Sigh... I admit you're right, we did suck. But what food are you talking about, more precisely?

 

[Extraintrovert]

I like (love is a strong word that is overused far too often) that absolutely nothing happens here, to the point where news programs have to basically invent news stories to make things seem interesting (instead of covering news from other countries, which is apparently Heresy). It makes things stable, safe and uninteresting.

 

[Polyg0n]

+ A lot of snow
+ A lot of good music
+ Great education system
+ Sauna
+ Salmiakki

Finn reporting in.

 

[Queen Michael]

I like (love is a strong word that is overused far too often) that absolutely nothing happens here, to the point where news programs have to basically invent news stories to make things seem interesting (instead of covering news from other countries, which is apparently Heresy). It makes things stable, safe and uninteresting.

Which country are you talking about?

 

[MetalPhoenix]

I'm trying to think of something. But I can't really come up with anything at the moment.
The Netherlands btw

Does the legal hookers/pot thing apply to the whole of the Netherlands?

I don't do drugs and I don't believe in sex without love. So to me: no

Nice stereotype though

 

[Avelestar]

Australia, our flag is beautiful.

As an environmental student, I love our unique wildlife and landscape. It's a harsh arid zone, with some damn good forests and grasslands nearer the coasts.

 

[Kajt]

For Finland, there's the Finnish Winter War [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9cHkMILP4_A/Su8p3GFJJOI/AAAAAAAABHc/yywQlkVuUD4/s800/fdccax.jpg] and Children of Bodom [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NVNzesY-8] and for Sweden there's the Era of Great Power [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire] and Sabaton [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0uhXhSdhk4].

 

[MetalPhoenix]

Holland has some sweet health care, gun restrictions, and is one of the most tolerant nations in the world considering same-sex marriage and religious freedom.
(That is, until that islamophobe Geert Wilders showed up and got massive support from the thickheaded people. He wants to ban the Qu'ran. That's right. He wants to ban a book. We all know what that leads to.)

Healthcare, gun restrictions and tolerance can be found in other countries as well. So that's not unique to the Netherlands.

You're kinda right about Wilders. I've read his party program and I agree with every single idea he has put in there. I didn't vote for him because he says stupid things like "I want to ban the Qu'ran".

But the politics here are something I'm quite ashamed of.

 

[ironlordthemad]

Well I would have to say that the best thing about living in scotland is that there are no English accents. English people are ok, but your accents are horrible... Other than that it's just beautiful land, funny people and good times that I love about Scotland.

 

[Chrono212]

The multiculturalism.
Sure, we might have lost what it 'means' to be British but does anyone else know what it 'means' to be anything?

Wouldn't you love just to walk down a road of restaurants and have the choice of having authentic food from anywhere in the world?

 

[Woodsey]

England. I'm proud of it's history.

I hope we're talking WW2 and such, not colonialism and slavery.

David Cameron.

No.

The multiculturalism.
Sure, we might have lost what it 'means' to be British but does anyone else know what it 'means' to be anything?

What it means to be British is to be multicultural and fair. The ones that argue against that are racists and xenophobes. Oh, hello BNP!

OT: We're very lenient on games (although still no tax cuts, major idiot-move), and the government (well, previous governments, this one's only just started up) have always done well in holding enough control over things that the public-at-large are too stupid to think through. Ignoring calls for the death penalty, for example.

 

[imnot]

England, like someone said before the history, theres proberly things in my house older than the usa.

 

[Extraintrovert]

I like (love is a strong word that is overused far too often) that absolutely nothing happens here, to the point where news programs have to basically invent news stories to make things seem interesting (instead of covering news from other countries, which is apparently Heresy). It makes things stable, safe and uninteresting.

Which country are you talking about?

It's a secret! No-one must know! D:<

 

[James Stanbridge]

New Zealand.

Being by amazing water. (Rivers, beaches.)
Being by amazing greenery.
Being a Kiwi.
Our meat & food.
Milk.
No one wants to kill us.
Our sport teams.

 

[Klepa]

+ A lot of snow
+ A lot of good music
+ Great education system
+ Sauna
+ Salmiakki

Finn reporting in.

I'd consider the snow a minus, and I don't much agree with the music, nor am I a fan of sauna.

However, education system is undeniably badass, and so is salmiakki.

The Finns. We are Legion.

 

[Harkonnen64]

I live in America, and I love 50 cent hot wing nights at Buffalo Wild Wings and Pizza Hut...