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Which nationality would you like to be?

  • 24-09-2006 2:08pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    If by some bizarre twist of fate were to wake up tomorrow and be a citizen/denizen of another country (other than the one(s) you currently are) which one would you like it to be (and which ones would rather it hadn't been)?

    Me personally I'd like
    Germany or England

    and would dislike it to be
    USA or Northern Ireland.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dangerman


    Polish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    hmmm...italian...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40 Goldfinger


    Scottish.
    .....Next best thing,really, isn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭cork-langer


    Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    Uzbeckistanish!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Either French or Italian.

    The ones I wouldn't like are - English, Romanian and any other eastern undeveloped countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Scraggs


    Japanese or French because they exude effortless cool and are so very stylish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Icelandic.
    Those people are just too cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    French, definitely. Love the country and spending more time there would be an upswing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    whiskeyman wrote:
    Icelandic.
    Those people are just too cool.

    Your coat is in the corner there. :)

    French, though it would take me a while to learn the laugh.
    Haw, haw, haw, nearly had it there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    Italian...maybe, spanish.... The italians have such a calm way of doing things, and I like everything about their culture and someday I would hope to be in the mafia :D
    i'd hate to be UK-ish or French, or anywhere in the mislle east
    ...and I would prefer to remain catholic no matter what, its such a loose religion compared to jewish,hinduism... and be in the mafia as well...;)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I would like to be from France, Finland, Canada or Japan.
    Maybe Italian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    Another Frenchie..... but maybe I'm bias because my bf is French.

    Would hate to be African, could not live there. The spiders there are the size of houses!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭spudington16


    Kazahkstani! :D Gotta love Borat! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭smk135


    after living in france for 7 years and meeting a lot of different nationalities, i have to say that when you travel there is nothing like the welcome you get when you say you are Irish.

    but if i couldnt be irish id say colombian or some latino nationality as people always think i am latino anyway. WOuld be easier than having to show my passport every time to prove that im irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    Brazilian, but living in Europe! They've got so much going for them and women love them!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Kazahkstani! :D Gotta love Borat! ;)


    Yep, would have to go for Kazahktani too, failing that German.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Zimbabwean.. I'd be able to lie in the shade and pull my plum all day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    Italian :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,018 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Japanese because they have the most unique and interesting culture ever. Also I wouldnt have to learn Japanese lousy complicated language.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Anywhere bar england, surprise:rolleyes:
    Though we might as well be polish!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    New Caledonian please... it's supposed to be very nice there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭JaysusMacfeck


    I wouldn't give up my Irish nationality for anything but I wouldn't mind being Brazlian or Spanish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭icklekinkykat


    :D russian ha ha they sound so aggressive the whole time


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    German or Japanese.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭last_orders


    definitly jamacian :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Will i get booed for being the first to say American?? I have visited it loads of times and love the place, the whole place and people I just love it especially New York, rural America is nice too, I for one would love to be an American Citizen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭Angus MacGyver


    Faroe islands, I might have had a chance to play in croke park!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,963 ✭✭✭SpAcEd OuT


    Brazilian

    because the women are beautiful and they actually have a good football team


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Canadian ftw (not those french canadians mind). I've finally realised why I love the country, theres a lot to be said for having a nationality that isn't tarnished with some bad cultural trait... due to their lack of culture :p. Its like getting a clean slate when you're there nobody assumes any characteristics off you and vice versa.

    If not them, American :D There has to be something said about being a citizen of the most powerful and influential country on the planet, no matter how much the rest of the world resents this fact.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Finnish, they have great music, cool language and incredibly sexy men.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Most obviously Japanese, but that's not to say I don't like being Irish, even if the Irish music industry does make me want to hide my head in shame.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    definitly jamacian :D

    lol, I second that :D

    For me, probably

    Dutch, cos theyre the West Europeans that are culturally most like the Irish

    Polish/ex Soviet etc- because I could come here, stockpile my money, go back home and live like a king

    Australia- the women are beautiful, and the whole place is just mad bastard central



    Wouldnt fancy being Spanish, Chinese or any other country where irresponsible drinking is culturally frowned upon. Having said the above, the weather is ****e, the football team is ****e, theres alot of pretentious bastards amongst us but still, cant bate being Irish :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    Japanese because Japan is cool in every way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭smk135


    netwhizkid wrote:
    Will i get booed for being the first to say American?? I have visited it loads of times and love the place, the whole place and people I just love it especially New York, rural America is nice too, I for one would love to be an American Citizen.

    BOOOOOOOO.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    netwhizkid wrote:
    Will i get booed for being the first to say American?? I have visited it loads of times and love the place, the whole place and people I just love it especially New York, rural America is nice too, I for one would love to be an American Citizen.

    Go home yankee, boo hiss *personal abuse* *remarks about fat Americans*, etc.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    I'd be Chinese or Japanese but only if i could travel back in time and be a monk or samurai respectively.

    If time travel wasn't an option i'd be Japanese, Spanish or Dutch.

    I'd hate to be American or Australian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Australian for me!

    I'd able to surf well, and I wouldn't be pasty white. And Irish girls would swoon at my accent!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭Reganio 2


    netwhizkid wrote:
    Will i get booed for being the first to say American?? I have visited it loads of times and love the place, the whole place and people I just love it especially New York, rural America is nice too, I for one would love to be an American Citizen.
    Yes BOOOOOO go home Yank learn to play Golf.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 49 MsMolko


    Russian, definitely. Their history is amazing and the language is gorgeous.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    nevf wrote:
    ...and I would prefer to remain catholic no matter what, its such a loose religion compared to jewish,hinduism... and be in the mafia as well...;)
    Breaking news for ya bud...the sixth commandment is thou shalt not kill.

    You say loose….I say hypocritical, Mr. Soprano.

    I happily renounced my Catholicism aged 12 after I coined it in on my Confirmation day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭snapjiggyfluff


    Love to be Russian as well, pretty cool country and the woman are HOT!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Nippon or Italia FTW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Duras


    Iraqi, no doubt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    Aussie Aussie Aussie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭Car Mad


    Jamican man coz they iz so cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    American...specifically a New Yorker. Love the place.
    French
    Spaniards are HOTTT so it wouldn't be bad to be one of them either
    English

    Wouldn't like to be German, Welsh, Scottish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Nobody has it as good as we do so i'm happy being Irish. :) But..... if I had to make the choice it def would be an aussie ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    I've awalys wetnad to be Risasun. I maen you aotmualtciy qialfuy for Hrad As Nilas B*stard stutas, are iumnme to clod and acalhols etecffs bar Vkdoa, can wleid any wpaoen wtih lhetal pfoncieifncy, hvae no (vibslie) eoitnms and get to say "you hvae a vrey ncie hsuoe" wtih it sdouing lkie you are aubot to kill the posren bcesaue he was sienlpeg wtih yuor wfie wlihe you wree aawy wkrinog taht wrohe was sriencwg PILIHP. Binrg it on, Plhiip. Birng it on.*


    *Anyone who can successfully and correctly make this into normal english shall receive a mystery prize.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Canadian eh?!


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