Your Country Pros & Cons
Your Country Pros & Cons
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- grunttt0
fascinating thread. seriously.
- Yeah, it is quite - I've just learned that 'my country' doesn't even exist in my fellow countryman's eyes. Dang.detritus
- aw, sorry, didn't mean to piss ye offkelpie
- twasn't just your answer, chum - everyone's answered 'England' or 'Scotland'.
Well done, nu labour.detritus - always been that way for a long long time mate, I'd look further back than nu lab for a reasonkelpie
- ex-colonial countries are very hard to define, I believe.********
- if asked for my "nationality" I say British though, I guess its fine distinctions, but that's more official classificationkelpie
- its not colonialism, we were all british back then. its the hundreds of years of separate identitykelpie
- so you mean you are all britons, more than you are "british" :)********
- That's what I mean, Witt.
I was born here, from family from all over this island - I am a Briton. Screw parochialism.detritus - "parochialism"? fuck me, are you far off the mark there.kelpie
- Not referring to you, kelpie - my inadvertent singular form of 'countryman' really wasn't aimed at you.detritus
- I was brought overseas, and as a kid thought that we'd all become 'Europeans' - so my outlook is ever toward the ...detritus
- .. greater sphere of people. I just find it odd that people choose to be defined by their region and not their aspirationsdetritus
- ONE WORLD GOV'T FOR THE WIN.detritus
- Well, obviously, I guess I was slightly referring to you - but not just you, nameen?detritus
- Anyway, I have to go see my Scots granny and uncle, his English daughter in a Polish /Bangladeshi part of town.detritus
- But all of Europe is a bit parochial, detritus :)********
- We're all Stardust, baby.
Except infidels and wogs.detritus - as long as enough people believe in it, country, state, nation, can mean anything. Imagined communities etc.kuzzAAAAM