How do you define your nationality?

[wulf3n]

I would say Australian, however that isn't very descriptive at the moment, as I still don't feel Australia really has it's own culture just yet. We're still a young country.

So I usually say mongrel, a little bit of most Western European countries, but not enough of any to feel a part of that culture.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Well, I've lived in the universe my whole life...
So I'd say I'm a denizen of the universe.

More locally, I'm Belgian, since I and my family have been born here for generations.

 

[Yopaz]

Norwegian. I see no need to differentiate any more. I do on occasions refer to myself as European because I have talked to people who have asked what state Norway is in. Honestly, it doesn't bother me, it's a small country and I don't know much about geography myself.

 

[Dimitriov]

I'm a Canadian of Scottish and Irish descent. That fairly accurately describes me, and is generally how I feel. I am in fact 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Scottish Canadian - which is kinda tricky cuz I am actually the 7th generation in Canada on that side, so it's hard to say exactly how Scottish that actually is... but it's where my name comes from so...

As for the other half... my mom was adopted, so biologically speaking I can't really say. But I feel like a Canadian of Scottish and Irish descent, so there you go.

 

[Slash Joel]

Mixed race. I am half European and half African, also partly American.

But really I do just see my self as an American.

 

[excalipoor]

I'm Finnish, and there really isn't much else to be said about that.

I guess I could call myself 1/4 Karelian (which is an ethnic group, not a nationality, but it sounds cooler), and technically if you go back far enough (like a hundred years at least) I could call myself part Russian or even part Swedish.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I identify as English. I was technically born in Ireland and most of my extended family is, but I was brought up in England. I just feel English. Not in a BNP way, I'm just as English as every other immigrant, but I've lived almost my entire life here and I call it home.

I define myself as both British and English, more English though. It really depends who I'm around. If I'm with Scots and we're talking to say, a Frenchman, I'll probably say British. If we all met and American we'd be Europeans. If we then met an alien, we'd be from Earth.

 

[Branovices]

I'm American because it says so on my passport, I'm Odawa (Native American) because it says so on my tribal ID card. I don't avoid either label, neither do they hold any intrinsic meaning for me.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Mixed race. I am half European and half African, also partly American.

But really I do just see my self as an American.

Just want to say there is no way in hell American is a race, we are the most mongrel country on this planet and we like it that way.

OT: Well I'd say my National Identity is first and foremost American, its what I identify with on just about anything the US is involved with. As far as blood goes I have just about everything from Western Europe except Iberian and Scandinavian so there is really little value in me putting so much into my ethnicity. Though culturally I also tend to identify as Southern in addition to being American.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I'm Human, but since nobody ever accepts that as an answer then I'm a White American of extremely diverse white European heritage.
Born and raised in the US of A and my "bloodline" (as some friends have called it) is a mix of Irish, Polish, English, German, Russian, French, Dutch and a couple other things I'm slowly forgetting since I don't consider it very important.

 

[Saregon]

Norwegian through and through. Going back about 300 years my father's side of the family came here from Portugal, and their ship went down, and on my mother's side it's been traced back about 900-1000 years, Norwegian all the way (genealogy is fun!).

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Personally, I think where you've lived and where you were born are irrelevant. It's the parent's nationalities that count. If they're both english, then you're english. If one is german the other chinese, you're half german-half chinese. Boom. Simple stuff,really.
I, for example, was born in germany, but I don't consider myself german at all. Both my parents are Hungarian, therefore I, in turn, and 100% Hungarian as well.

 

[FallOutKing94]

I am half english,half scottish but I tend to feel I fall more the the scottish side of it.

 

[piinyouri]

The land of paranoid, heavily armed, gloriously insane white folk.

 

[Da Orky Man]

British, though I was born in Wales.
Now then, my dad's family is fully English. My mum was born in Wales. My maternal grandmother was born is Scotland in a Scottish family, but moved to Wales at an early age, and my maternal grandfather moved to Wales also at a young age, but from Ireland and a wholly Irish family.
So yeah, I'm quite literally as British as they come, having close relatives from every country in the United Kingdom.

Of course, most of the time I say I'm Welsh, simply because it would explain my somewhat mixed accent to anyone from England, and barely anyone outside the UK has heard of Wales, so I get to watch then squirm

Irish.

Being from Northern Ireland (born and lived all my life) and having two Northern Irish parents, I can say Irish, British or Northern Irish if I want to be very specific, yet all of them are true. Why I choose Irish is because;

- If I say "British", people immediately think "English" which is not only annoying since that is false but it also seems to have more negative connotations than positive.
- If I say Northern Irish, people get confused. You'd be suprised how many don't know that it's a seperate country and how often I have to then give a mini-history lesson.
- Irish is simpler and people tend to respond with "Cool!" or "I'm 1/16 Irish!!"

At least people have heard of Ireland, even if they don't know about the north. Basically nobody outside the UK even knows Wales exists.

EDIT: I would also, and quite highly, put my nationality as European, as I am quite pro-EU.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

I'm a first generation Australian with English parents. That's pretty much it, and helps explain my slightly posh accent to real Aussies.

I want to go to England someday, but I don't feel like I have any right to lay claim to being "English" or "British".

 

[Ljs1121]

I generally just say American since I've never really made the effort to dig that deep into my nationality. I also think that my mom's and dad's sides of the family have a lot of Irish in them, for what it's worth.

I tend to call myself a human before anything else, as at the end of the day I feel a greater affinity to humanity as a whole rather than any one country.

Ooh, that's actually pretty good. Mind if I steal it for future use?

 

[floppylobster]

I say I'm 'from New Zealand'. That says where I started. It's also where I live but it doesn't say I belong to it or necessarily strongly identify it. It just gives people an idea of where I have started from.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Well I mainly call myself British since I have blood from England, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.

I class myself as English since I was born in England.

Also I class myself as Yam-Yam, since I was born and raised in the Black Country.

I have Cornish, Scottish and Welsh; definitely in me blood. And I may have some French and Swedish.

As far as I know, I have 0 part of me that's Irish.

 

[Kirke]

I don't feel like I belong to a nation. I live in Sweden, in the second largest city (Göteborg/Gothenburg). I couldn't care less what happens in the capital. So I am a göteborgare. My family has lived on the west coast since before it was part of Sweden. Quite frankly, I'd like to see Gothenburg become a part of Norway. It seems like a much better country.