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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be.
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
my country is the world
I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.
And what exotic part of the world do you come from?
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
beautiful country with spectacular views. As
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.
I'm Cuban and I always will be.
Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.
I'm basically a country person.
Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
My homeland is the portuguese language.
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
I love the British.
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk ... You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic, as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America ... a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
Cape Verde produces good people.
I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world
My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
Lithuanians and it would take more than
The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.
Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.
I'm basically a homegrown American.
It is spruce and pine and hemlock country, deerfly and punkie and blackfly country, wool and four-wheel-drive country, loon and osprey and raven country. My kind of country.
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
what Cremica can make even Britannia and Parle cannot make!
The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
English. That was where I met him.
I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
From Arawaks he later met on Hispaniola (the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) he learned of other people to the south, whom the Spanish called the Cariba or Caniba, from which we get the words "Caribbean" and "cannibal.
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
panchitos, blacks,
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.
The country is an archipelago of lakes,
the lake-country of New England.
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.
My best friend was Aboriginal.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.
Gilly Gilleshpee
I'm married to a girl from Wales.
Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men
I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
I feel really blessed because of where I come from.
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I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
I asked somebody else who is out my country about his country and what he answered what's a big suprise what the people said in my country was "STUPIDY" - Category answer!
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved the people, the food, the lay of the land, the civilized atmosphere, and the generous pace of life.
I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.