how much does your nationality / race means to you?

kilojoule

kilojoule

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Irish, Born& raised in in Ireland. I am patriotic. My Country gives me history and identity. It somehow makes me feel more connected to my R.I.P. loved ones. Its important to me. When I was in school we had to learn the language and all the kids hated it, now Im glad of it.

Having said that, I love other cultures too and it wouldnt matter to me where a potential boyfriend came from. I'd like him to be proud of his heritage though, whatever it was, I think its important. Pass on where youve been to help the next generation see where theyre going.
 
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kilojoule

kilojoule

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Also its a dark time for Ireland. Atm we have mass emmigration....again!!! Over half my generation has emmigrated. Theres no jobs here. Those of us remaining have been left behind by our peers .. Everywhere you look theres hopelessness, its a dark time.

When Katie Taylor took the gold in the Olympics, the whole Country went mad with support and excitement. We needed the win!
 
Section_31

Section_31

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Jewel said:
Irish, Born& raised in in Ireland. I am patriotic. My Country gives me history and identity. It somehow makes me feel more connected to my deceased loved ones. Its important to me. When I was in school we had to learn the language and all the kids hated it, now Im glad of it.

Having said that, I love other cultures too and it wouldnt matter to me where a potential boyfriend came from. I'd like him to be proud of his heritage though, whatever it was, I think its important. Pass on where youve been to help the next generation see where theyre going.
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I agree with this :D. I dont care where a girl is from, if shes hot, shes hot! lol
 
Lonelykitsune

Lonelykitsune

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While I'm not proud of it, being white is very handy as nothing is expected from or of you and you don't suffer because of it. Dealing with racist **** along with SA unbearable I think.

Nationality doesn't mean a huge amount to me.
 
springk

springk

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i feel i m not very attached to my race..may be i am suffering from idetity crisis lol. i belong to a minority group in my country but live among people not of my race..and i dont even speak my native language though i somehow understand it.
To answer the question..i dont care about race or nationality as i believe in humanity. well i too dont have any problem where my bf comes from..but i dont know anyone will like me..as i am such a mess.

yes ..having said that i feel its a positive thing to know about your roots and at the same time be open minded as well.
 
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Fighter86

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My nationality unfortunately means little to me. I was born and bred in a cosmopolitan Asian city, its a great place really but I hate it. The bad memories, I could also not remember a time when I really smiled as a kid. If I had to relocate for some reason I wouldn't miss my country nor family.
 
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AGR

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Beatrice said:
As for being white... I don't hate any race. I don't think any are better than another. Sometimes I do feel like there is a certain white culture and I would like to preserve it, but not to harm any others to do so. I think each culture is special and valuable and should remain separate and have space to be itself. Not exactly politically correct, but that's how I feel.
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cultures always change,take for example the protuguese,they had contact with the japanese,came to japan,few people know that and as a result there are words in Japanese which are derived or exactly as in portuguese.
It is impossible for any culture to remain unchanged.
 
bleach

bleach

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It's very important. When I meet someone of the same heritage it is much easier to make a connection, because there is a higher level of trust and comfort between us. Even if we have incompatible personalities it is still easier to understand each other and at least get along. If we are compatible than the connection is much stronger than it wouldbe with people of a different background.

It can be interesting to meet people of another heritage because I like to notice how cultures and races are different. However, there is also more of a wall to communication.
 
coyote

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i find the whole idea of "race" to be silly - we're all the same species

as for my cultural heritage, i'm the proverbial american mutt. my ancestors immigrated from nearly every country in europe or were native americans - all well before the "nation" of the United States was even formed. so to consider myself "english" or "german" or anything else other than "american", i also find silly.

this country is so large, that different geographic regions have their own culture, values, and social norms. i am from the midwest and great plains.

i take pride not in the race or nationality of my ancestors, but in the types of people they were. i am the descendant of pioneers, adventurers, free-thinkers, and warriors.
 
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PhantomPod

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It doesn't really mean anything to me. I'm just a white American. I'm part Italian/Irish/Dutch/French. I'm just such a mix that I am not very attached to any part of my nationality, other than just being an American.
 
chibiXphantom

chibiXphantom

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nothing whatsoever
no idea what i am other than white lol
(considering i have no idea who my father is and my mom wont talk about anything background related)
 
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Steppen-Wolf

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My nationality has been a source of shame for me for a long time, but in the end it wasn't a choice I made nor does it represent who I am as individual, so why should I care?

As far as my "race", I guess I could be considered "white", "caucasian" or whatever is politically correct these days... but I don't really identify myself with a race, or anything else for that matter, I'm just myself, a human being, an individual, not some extrapolation of a social or biological group.
 
xDreamseller

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I don't get the whole "nationality" thing. Then again, I've always been more of an introvert which I think has to do with it. Maybe it's because I'm from Northern Ireland, I don't know. (Most people feel very strongly about their nationality here, whether they consider themselves to be Irish or British)

I, on the other hand, don't care at all. I've always wondered why people want to "track their roots" and find out all that stuff. Sure a very small portion of people do it for medical reasons, but other than that, I don't get it. Being "proud" to be of a certain nationality is another thing I don't get. That just feels to me like you are piggybacking on other people's success in the past, which you had no part in doing. "I'm proud to be British, we make the best tea!" (Just an example). It just reminds me of when people refer to football teams, claiming that "we" won last night. You didn't personally play any role in the football match or the process of tea making, so don't take credit for it.

I look at people as individuals. I don't see that kid next door as "the principles son", that's not HIM. He is Johnny and that's all there is to it in my mind.

Wow, that was a rant...what else would you expect from a half british/irish person? *:mad::mad::mad:*
 
Lea

Lea

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xDreamseller said:
I don't get the whole "nationality" thing. Then again, I've always been more of an introvert which I think has to do with it. Maybe it's because I'm from Northern Ireland, I don't know. (Most people feel very strongly about their nationality here, whether they consider themselves to be Irish or British)

I, on the other hand, don't care at all. I've always wondered why people want to "track their roots" and find out all that stuff. Sure a very small portion of people do it for medical reasons, but other than that, I don't get it. Being "proud" to be of a certain nationality is another thing I don't get. That just feels to me like you are piggybacking on other people's success in the past, which you had no part in doing. "I'm proud to be British, we make the best tea!" (Just an example). It just reminds me of when people refer to football teams, claiming that "we" won last night. You didn't personally play any role in the football match or the process of tea making, so don't take credit for it.

I look at people as individuals. I don't see that kid next door as "the principles son", that's not HIM. He is Johnny and that's all there is to it in my mind.

Wow, that was a rant...what else would you expect from a half british/irish person? *:mad::mad::mad:*
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Why people want to track their roots? I don´t know why others do it, I think if they do it for pride that´s silly, but I like to investigate about my ancestors just out of curiosity. I´d like to know who they were, how they lived.. I am not american though so my ancestors lived around here at least as far as I can follow, which is about the beginning of 19 th century.
 
Stalker

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For me the nationality of the person means very little, practically anything.
Ideas about the superiority of one races over others are alien to me. Not important what color a leather, but it is very important what person.
Certainly impossible to deny historical ways of different nations and even continents. But it in the today`s world cosmopoliten and the Internet should not big role.
 
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