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Where are you from?

Europe
135
32%
United States
151
36%
Canada
27
6%
Australia
18
4%
New Zealand
7
2%
Asia
57
14%
Middle East
3
1%
South America
10
2%
Central America & Caribbean
6
1%
Africa
7
2%
 
Total votes: 421

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Where are you from?

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Select the region or country where you originally come from.
Last edited by Lombardi4 on Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:14 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Born in Germany, but to American parents (military) so I put U.S.

I once met a Vietnamese-American who was born on the Pacific Ocean. His mother came over with the so-called "boat people" after the Vietnam War and gave birth to him while the ship was still at sea in the middle of the Pacific.

What would he put? Perhaps, Asia, but what if the ship was right on the international dateline directly between Asia and North America? :tongue:
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Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
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Peter wrote:Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
An excellent novel


Im from Wales, UK
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Why is UK and Europe Seperate?
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clw_uk wrote:Why is UK and Europe Seperate?
Because at first I made this poll for an English-language learning site, and there many people are from the UK... So I wanted to discern native speakers from non-native ones... And then I just copied the poll here. Have I made myself clear? :smile:
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Stefan wrote:
clw_uk wrote:Why is UK and Europe Seperate?
Because at first I made this poll for an English-language learning site, and there many people are from the UK... So I wanted to discern native speakers from non-native ones... And then I just copied the poll here. Have I made myself clear? :smile:

Yep :smile:

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I am from the British Isles so put UK but not from there, or europe
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Hi Stefan

For future reference...
Oceania is so 'conceptual' as a geograpic region that its existence borders on the fictitious.
I've never met anyone who has identified themselves as Oceanian, nor have I been able to identify any social, economic, political, cultural or linguistic commonalities that bind the people over the vastness of the purported area as one.
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Exactly Ben!

Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.

No partiality here! :thinking:

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Hello Ben and Chris. Please forgive my ignorance regarding the terms about Oceania. It's just that it is listed as one of the regions of the world here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:R ... _the_world" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . I could have written 'Australia' or 'Australia and New Zealand', but that would exclude all those funny little islands in the Pacific, which actually is not a big deal... :smile:
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Oops. I wanted to rename Oceania to "Australia and New Zealand" and I messed the whole poll up... :oops:

So sorry...
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Well done, Stefan!
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Greetings Chris,
Chris wrote:Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.
Does that mean that since Tasmania is not geographically connected (above sea level) to the continent of Australia that we can finally declare that Tasmania is not part of Australia?!

:tongue:

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Post by thornbush »

Hmm I didn't see karma listed :tongue:
So I guess that I will just have to choose 'Asia' :jumping:
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