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this probably is a really dense question :-[ but when people ask you "where are you from," do you/should you answer by telling them that you are from the country you reside in, or your ethnicity i.e where your parents are from:?
 
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if my mother ask me this question in the house. I would answer that I came from my room, bathroom, kitchen, backyard, etc...:D
 
i'm mixed race so i tell them from whatever country depends on my mood. I can be from one country today and another tomorrow.
 
I beleive Oring counts, in first place. While the place where an individual has brought up also has its marks when we analyse a person.

Answer to your question should be with either both or with desired.
 
amani said:
depends whos asking
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Yup, exactly. Each person has a different reason for asking, so my answer depends on what that reason is, so I can tell them what they want to know.

Or if they've got time I tell them the whole "my parents are so and so, i was born in so and so, i moved to so and so, then so and so, then so and so, etc.":coolious:
 
I'm such a talker, I've probably told my life-story to people I've known for just two days, or less. That's how most of my friends became my friends. :D

Though even if it doesn't seem like it, I do strategically choose what to say, you shouldn't go very intimate with strangers. If you don't want to intimidate them of course.

But this is a random-pattern when I talk to a stranger about myself: "I live in Finland. *ooh! finland! any polar-bears there? haha* HAHA, nope, but I could count as a bear, haha *hehe (doesn't get my humour)* Umm, haha *but you're not finnish?* Njet, 'cause I moved to Finland when I was just a toddler... *why??* Well, 'cause of war. Kosovo, *oooh, Kosovo, the war with the Serbs* Yeaah, so I'm ethnically Albanian. *aah, ok* But also Turkish *aha?* Cuz my Dad is a Turk from kosovo *cool!* Mm, and my Mum has Turkish blood in her aswell, *interesting combination!* You think? I find it boring *Nooo*" and goes on and on...

Did I already mention I talk a lot?
 
You ‘are from’ the country named on your passport, to say otherwise would be hypocritical. Why - because the country giving you the passport contracts with you to protect you wherever you are, in taking that passport you should, in return, give that country your allegiance. If you owe your allegiance to another country, integrity demands that you hold the passport of that country.
 
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You ‘are from’ the country named on your passport, to say otherwise would be hypocritical. Why - because the country giving you the passport contracts with you to protect you wherever you are, in taking that passport you should, in return, give that country your allegiance. If you owe your allegiance to another country, integrity demands that you hold the passport of that country.
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And what of those who are citizens of several countries and hold several passports?
 
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You ‘are from’ the country named on your passport, to say otherwise would be hypocritical. Why - because the country giving you the passport contracts with you to protect you wherever you are, in taking that passport you should, in return, give that country your allegiance. If you owe your allegiance to another country, integrity demands that you hold the passport of that country.
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some of us have more than one passport :p
 
When people ask me what country i'm from, i know they mean my ethnicity but just 2 b awkward i say i'm from this country and then they ask me where my parents are from lol.
 
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Thinker said:
Is that legal - why would you have more than one passport?
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Yes it is legal, many countries offer dual citizenship.
There are many reasons you could have more than 1 passport, you could be a naturalized citizen of a country, have parents from different countries, be born in a country that offers citizenship upon birth.. Loads of reasons.
Some people even have more than 2 passports.
 

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