How do you define your nationality?

[Saregon]

*snip*

How easy would it be for someone who speaks English to get around? I've looked into learning Norwegian before but resources for doing so are kind of scarce in my city.

Very easy. Road signs (except for place-names) are international standard, and all Norwegians over the age of 10 speak English fairly well, and pretty much all adults are fluent (if not in pronunciation and such), so you will have no problems language-wise as long as you speak English. Also, pretty much all tourist destinations have info signs and such in Norwegian, English, French and German.

 

[TehCookie]

Your nationality is the nation you're a citizen of. If you have dual citizenship or immigrated you have more than one. As for me I'm American. Born and raised here and made of ethnic soup so I would consider my race to be American as well.

 

[SidheKnight]

I'm from Argentina, my grandparents were spanish and italian.

But I don't feel particularly strong ties to the country I was born in, I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

 

[hermes]

I am Uruguayan or, as I like to call it for the geographically impaired people "that small country between Argentina and Brazil... the ones in the other America"

I don't have much to identify with in my country since its a relatively young and small country with no indigenous inheritage, so I had more in common with European immigrants and our neighbors than with other South American cultures.

 

[chiefohara]

I'm Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales.

Lol! Beautiful!

Touche Frank

 

[verdant monkai]

I was born a human male in Wales in a welsh town in a welsh suburb in a welsh hospital to welsh parents.

Therefore I am welsh, however I like to think of myself as also being British and European. I like the history of Europe and Britain, but when I am visiting anywhere in Europe I always say I am Welsh never British. This is because there is a surprising amount of hate for English people, but if you are Welsh people have either not heard of you or like you for not being English. Ireland is a good example of this the shared Celtic background of Wales and Ireland, give us more of a cultural understanding. Although to be honest everyone around the Britain area has the same culture, go out every Friday and Saturday night to get drunk angry and violent.

 

[hooblabla6262]

I'm a french-speaking Native American born in Canada. Never liked that term though, cause of the "American" part.

I suppose I could call myself an Indian, but that would be stupid and wrong.
I could say that I am Maliseet or First Nations, but nobody knows what I'm talking about.

I wish my people still had a place to call our home.

 

[Psykoma]

I'm Canadian.
Born in Alberta and Moved to Quebec when in my teens.
My father immigrated here from England in the 60s, my mom's family has been in prince edward island for generations, originally from France.

So I just say I'm Canadian, though when I'm peevish I'll also say that I'm entitled to be British.

 

[ungothicdove]

American with mostly Norwegian and Swedish heritage and some other stuff mixed in. I don't really know much about my ancestors though. It's something that I don't care about as far as my own identity is concerned, but I think it would be interesting to look in to and see how I ended up where I am.

 

[Skeleon]

German. Yeah, that's pretty much all there's to it.
I heard once that from one of my grandparents side I supposedly have some Italian in me but I don't really know or care.

 

[Something Amyss]

I was born, raised, and murdered in America. I'm pretty sure I'm American.

 

[Vanorae]

I have Dutch parents. I was born and raised in the Netherlands. Most of my friends joke I was born in the wrong country, because of my love for English culture. That being said, I do consider myself 100 % Dutch. I would like to get out of here at some point in my life though. Not sure where to yet.

 

[Goofguy]

I'm 100% Canadian. My mother is French and my paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant. I was born in Quebec and while French is my mother tongue, I self-identify primarily as a Canadian and secondarily as an Anglo-Quebecer.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm British.

My dad's Irish (that is, Eire, not N.I.) born but grew up in the east end of London, and considers himself more of a Londoner than an Irishman.
My mum's English born, Scottish descent.

I don't like claiming to be Irish because I wasn't born there, and I've never been. When asked, I will explain that my dad is Irish so I do have close ties to the Irish, but I am not. I can't really claim to be Scottish as the last pure Scot in my family was my great-grandmother, though I am also proud to be of Scottish descent. I suppose I am more truthfully English, but that denies my Scottish roots too much for my liking. So I am British for my mother's side's sake and my father's adopted-heritage.

I do like having an Irish dad, though. It's amazing how many people treat the Irish like some magical species.

That's because we are, keep the facade alive!

OP: I'm Irish, we are a magical species.

 

[Colour Scientist]

100% irish

To the rest of ireland im a corkman (our version of texas)
To dubliners im a culchie (our version of the word redneck)

Ah, it's not THAT bad, in fairness!

 

[beastro]

Anglo-American.

Canada's turned its back on our British heritage and I don't identify with out hallow, made up post-war nationalism. We're children of the British Empire and were at our best serving her while today our culture is dominated by America and most Canadians prefer it to be that way, no matter how much the Government and CRTC try in vain to keep us watching most of the crap we produce indigenously.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I like to separate ethnicity from nationality, so I consider myself:

Ethnic group: English (I'm about 3/4 English by ancestry, the rest German, Danish and Irish from Victorian era migration)
Nationality: British (Born, raised and still live in the United Kingdom)
Continent: European (Again, born and raised here)
Race: White (Most or all of my ancestry from Europe, don't like the term "Caucasian" for various reasons and it's not used much in the UK anyway)
Civilisation: Western (Live and identify with Western culture)

I think nationality is wherever you have citizenship of and then ethnic group and race covers other heritage etc.

curious why don't you like the term Caucasian? never heard that before.

OT:

Born in the united states, so i am a US citizen. (for all you PC people out there, i usually just say american, but whatev's)

my heritage/ancestry is mostly polish and german, so i would say that if asked that question, i took german in high school otherwise there isn't much relation there.

 

[Kael Arawn]

Im Australian as its my place of residence and your nationality is 100% based on your physical location of permanent residence so if you have joint citizen ship and you spend a equal amount of time in both locations you can claim your nationality as both, otherwise dominance of living location really does define it.

Genetically (ie ancestry wise) my mums German and my dads Indian (my grandfather was also a conscripted member of the nazi war machine), and my mother immigrated here in the 70's and met my dad then as well**. He originally immigrated from Indian to Brittan when he was 10 with his sister and from Brittan to Australian in the 70s where he met my mum** as a bus conductor and 12 years later they made me (born 82')

So i have direct blood relatives in Germany, Indian, Brittan & Australia and since my mum was part a of a huge family (13 kids), i also have relatives in Africa, Scotland and China that i know of (nieces, nephews etc).

So generally I like to call my self a child of the world (ie human) but my home and nationality is and probably always will be Australia

*Interesting that my grandfather on my mums side would have killed my grandfather on my dads side if they had ever met each other because of a ideology that was forced on him by fascists

**And who says Australia isn't a multicultural place.

 

[JoJo]

curious why don't you like the term Caucasian? never heard that before.

Partly because it originates from a mistaken Victorian belief that Europeans and their close relatives such as North Africans and Middle-Easterners arose from the Caucasus region. My ancestors have lived in Europe for tens of thousands of years, if we're going to use geographical names for racial types then we might as well go for European or European-origin. I feel no connection to the Caucasus region and I don't really want to ape the name of the actual inhabitants there. I know it's kinda silly but that's the way I feel *shrugs*.

Calling Northern Ireland British would also technically be false. You would be something like a UKian. I am either British or UKian (which is apparently also a race in Star Wars), but since I just made up the second one I guess I will have to stick with British for the moment.

Well actually, even though Northern Ireland is not a part of the island of Great Britain, it's generally accepted that they are British by a virtue of being part of the United Kingdom and many of them being descended from English, Welsh and Scottish settlers who moved over centuries ago. Irish itself was considered a sub-nationality of British by many about a century ago before the Irish Free State was formed. Another example, Falkland Islanders generally consider themselves British despite living thousands of miles away from the mainland!

 

[Pawkeshup]

I was born in the US, but I have lived in Canada for 13 years, and I am even a citizen here. I consider myself Canadian.