"where are you from?"

Al-Zaara said:
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?
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For a Fin, you certainly talk too much. I've heard that Finnish people don't like talking, and that they only talk when it's necessary? lol
 
Argamemnon said:
For a Fin, you certainly talk too much. I've heard that Finnish people don't like talking, and that they only talk when it's necessary? lol
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I'm not a Fin by ethnicity, I'm an Albanian-Turk from Kosovo. :D You obviously didn't read my post, otherwise you'd seen I mentioned it there! Buuuusted! ;D

Nah, but seriously, it's true Fins aren't really talkative generally. Even when you get to know them really well... They don't talk much. But get them drunk, they'll never stop (until they pass out).
 
thinker said:
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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rofl:laugh:
 
Ethnicity: East African - Somali

Nationality: Canadian/American/British

When people ask me where I'm from I just say North America usually, and if they mean my ethnicity then I just say ''Somali''.
 
Depends on WHO asks you. Please clarify first post Jazakallah kayr.
 
I wouldn't tell strangers at all. For example a stranger starts talking to me at school and asks where Are you from I'll reply I'm originally from the streets but now live at my brothers house. No I wouldn't tell a stranger because the next thing I know I'm a begged on the streets. It is a simple knowledge question that the teachers teach in Elementary School. Never talk to strangers even though they look cool to chill with.
 
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When I get asked this, the conversation usually goes like this:
Guy: Where you from, brother?
Me: England.
Guy: No, no, I mean where you from?
Me: England.
Guy: Oh, you are new Muslim?
Me: Yeah, but I'm not really new anymore.
Guy: Subhanallah!
Me: Jazaakallah, Allah Hafiz...
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I usually say I'm from America. And if they ask again, I'm like yea, I was born here, raised here, never left this place 'cept on vacation. I only answer that way cuz they usually not all polite and kinda talk in a way that is like "go back to wherever you came from", so it's more fun to be vague and make them ask and ask... If they're friendly though, I say I was born here and then mention my ethnicity and whatever else they wanna know...
 
Thinker said:
Is that legal - why would you have more than one passport?
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yup its legal and i have more than one because i was born in Central America-so that was my citizenship from there + same as dad
and moved to england when i was young and my mother was already a brit so citizenship from her.
 

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