Which country are you from?

[Scheherazade]

Just wondering how many different countries are represented on our Forum.

I will start making a list and if your country of origin is not listed, please let us know.

1. Argentina

2. Australia

3. Brazil

4. Canada

5. China

6.Czech Republic

7. Denmark

8. Egypt

9. England

10. Estonia

11. Finland

12. France

13. Germany

14. Greece

15. Hungary

16. Iceland

17. India

18. Indonesia

19. Iran

20. Ireland

21. Italy

23. Nepal

24. Netherlands

25. New Zealand

26. Northern Ireland

28. Pakistan

29. Philippines

32. Romania

31. Russia

32. Saudi Arabia

33. Scotland

34. South Africa

35. Sweden

36. Taiwan

37. Thailand

38. Turkey

39. USA

40. Wales

[scaltz]

I come from the Philippines which, I'm quite sure, isn't in your list.

[Janine]

USA

Wow that's a cool list - didn't realise there were quite that many countries represented here. That's splendid!

[Scheherazade]

USA

Wow that's a cool list - didn't realise there were quite that many countries represented here. That's splendid!Janine,

While putting the list together, I was quite surprised as well; it is splendid! :)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden).

[Jesterhead]

I am from Denmark.

[Lokasenna]

I may be welsh, but I'm wondering whether Wales qualifies as a country? Whatever many of my compatriots may say, it really isn't...

[Maximilianus]

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Smileys/Argentinaflagwithhellocartoon.gif


18. Argentia

Oh, Scher, yoohoo! http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_howdy.gif You skipped an "n" between the "i" and the "a", dear mod http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_cheesy.gif

I wonder whether there are others from my homeland with a more or less regular activity http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

Anyways, that's my mother country, now celebrating its first 200 years of freedom (I wish they had been better used though, but oh well... http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/dntknw.gif). Land of pretty horses and milk caramel, among some other cool stuff :)


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[Niamh]

I may be welsh, but I'm wondering whether Wales qualifies as a country? Whatever many of my compatriots may say, it really isn't...

Of course Wales a country! You might be a part of Great Britain but Wales still a country. Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England are four countries, under one main government, all bar England have there own home rule too. :nod: I mean you have your own language and culture! :nod:

My country is already represented on that list! Eire! :D Or Ireland to everyone else!

[Annamariah]

I put all the countries mentioned in alphabetical order so it's easier to check if yours is there. I also added Finland to the list, of course :)

Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
England
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Romania
Russia
Scotland
South Africa
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
USA
Wales

(34 countries)

[OrphanPip]

Isn't Helga from Iceland? Also, Blaze is from Nepal I think.

Also, I agree Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland on their own aren't countries (taken to mean sovereign state), they're nations but they don't have what the Poli. Sci. people call a "monopoly of force" within their borders, which is to say they don't have military power within their borders.

Either they're not countries or Quebec counts as a country too, even if it kills me to say that given my deep hate for the separatist.

[Annamariah]

Perhaps we should take England, Scotland and Wales from the list and put Great Britain instead? (And add Iceland, you're right, Helga lives there. And Nepal too, I guess, though I'm not a hundred percent sure Blaze lives there, but surely someone else knows for sure? But yeah, I think he's from Nepal)

[Scheherazade]

I may be welsh, but I'm wondering whether Wales qualifies as a country? Whatever many of my compatriots may say, it really isn't...*sighs and shakes head*

I knew this would become an issue... And I was worried that if I didn't put them as separate countries, someone would come and complain that they had to be recognised as independent entities. And since they have a flag of their own and get to represent themselves as countries, say, in international foodball tournaments, I thought why not?

~ Please rest assured that I will alter the data collected accordingly before I present it to the UN. ~

:rolleyes5:


I put all the countries mentioned in alphabetical order so it's easier to check if yours is there. I also added Finland to the list, of course :)Thank you, Annamariah. :)

1. Argentina

2. Australia

3. Brazil

4. Canada

5. China

6.Czech Republic

7. Denmark

8. Egypt

9. Estonia

10. Finland

11. France

12. Germany

13. Greece

14. Hungary

15. Iceland

16. India

17. Indonesia

18. Iran

19. Ireland

20. Italy

21. Nepal

22. Netherlands

23. New Zealand

24. Pakistan

25. Philippines

26. Romania

27. Russia

28. South Africa

29. Sweden

30. Taiwan

31. Thailand

32. Turkey

33. UK

34. USA

[Lokasenna]

Of course Wales a country! You might be a part of Great Britain but Wales still a country. Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England are four countries, under one main government, all bar England have there own home rule too. :nod: I mean you have your own language and culture! :nod:

My country is already represented on that list! Eire! :D Or Ireland to everyone else!

Well, Cornwall has its own language and culture, but few would argue that it's a seperate country. Don't get me wrong - I'm proud of my Welshness, but it is technically a principality. 'Wales' as a homogenous block only developed under English occupation.

[Niamh]

The cornish Language in all fairness is almost a dead language. Unlike Wales, they dont have their own home parliament.
I would see it as a country. You are only a fraction of Great Britain, but you are still a country within it. wales and hte Welsh identity emerged after the Romans left Britain, and you didnt come under proper english control until the 13th Century, a whole century later than Ireland did. Infact, Great Britain didnt even exist until the beginning of the 18th Century when Scotland was Merged and Wales was still considered Wales (although the lands were called " The United Kingdoms of Wales and England" or some such) in its own right then. And if i'm not mistaken Wales did have a period, albeit brief period, of Independance in the 15th. The English didnt like their occupied lands sticking their fingers up at them back them ;) .
Wales is also on of 7 celtic nations (as is Cornwall mind you...and the Isle of Man for that matter...) which ethnically separates you from that of England and the "Saxon" blood. (they are even called Sasanach in Irish and Scottish and Saeson in Welsh)) Heck! Wales even derives from the word foreigner in the old Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in England. As far as they were concerened your were strangers in your strange land. :p Your language is a celtic language unlike English. The Anglo-Saxons at one point even construted a linear Earthwork Offa's Dyke (Just like the Ulstermen!) as a border to define Welsh lands from Saxon Lands, and also as a defensive, which is part of the defined border today ( Just like the Dorsey or Black Pigs Dyke in Ulster still defines the Ulster Border today in most parts!)
Wales has their own national anthem, and a capital city!
Have i argued a good enough case yet?

[TheFifthElement]

This seems definitely at risk of becoming a political discussion.

It's the United Kingdom. Represented as a single entity in Europe and the rest of the world, this is the only title which encompasses all the elements which make a single nation: Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland.

As Orphanpip mentioned, if England, Scotland and Wales are represented separately (and Northern Ireland not at all) then so must Quebec. And there are probably other areas of the world which might wish to be also represented separately like the Basque region, for example. It would seem more sensible to keep it simple, and accurate.

[Lokasenna]

I don't think it need become a political discussion - it's just an interesting categorisation problem.

Niamh, although a sort of Welsh-Celtic identity emerged after the end of Roman occupation, nonetheless Wales was comprised of a number of small kingdoms, most of which were at war with each other; despite cultural similarities, unification only came after English occupation. I actually think I'd be more justified in calling myself Gwyneddian rather than Welsh, as that was technically the original name of the country I was born in.

To some degree, I am playing devil's advocate though! But like Qubec, Monacco, Lichtenstein and others, it's very hard to work out exactly where Wales stands!

[sh_einstein]

I was born in UK, I grew up in Iran and I live in Canada!!!...I think that makes me a Canadian-Iranian.

[Niamh]

I don't think it need become a political discussion - it's just an interesting categorisation problem.

Niamh, although a sort of Welsh-Celtic identity emerged after the end of Roman occupation, nonetheless Wales was comprised of a number of small kingdoms, most of which were at war with each other; despite cultural similarities, unification only came after English occupation.

Same can be said about Ireland and other countries, but the land was still Eire, the same way Scotland was called Alba in the Annals, and yet was made of of kingships, and probably many other countries. We had around 152 clandoms/Kingdoms called Tuthas across the country, Ulster and Munster, two of the largest had smaller ones within them, as did Connaught and Leinster. Brega was a large one, which incorporated Tara, and was South of Oriel. As with Wales, the area that all those little kingdoms battling it out with each other was contain in was classed as Wales by the Anglo-Saxons.

Anyway, i think this is probably going to have to be a case of agree to disagree.


I was born in UK, I grew up in Iran and I live in Canada!!!...I think that makes me a Canadian-Iranian.

That has a nice ring to it... Canadian- Iranian, Iranian-Canadian...

[Speaker]

Hello everyone, I'm a new member in this forum..

unfortunately, my country is not listed above. I'm from Saudi Arabia.

[Maximilianus]

The historical debate on the British Isles deserves a http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_goodpost.gif

Very interesting :nod:


Hello everyone, I'm a new member in this forum..

unfortunately, my country is not listed above. I'm from Saudi Arabia.
Be welcome, Speaker! http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_handshake.gif

[L.M. The Third]

I'm from Canada. (The cold part, where it snows 9 or 10 months of the year and where there are two occupations - repairing igloos and driving sled teams.) Yeah, again, it's "Up North" and "it's really cold there".

[Three Sparrows]

Seriously the coldest spot in the United States. And I mean cold.:cold:

[L.M. The Third]

^ And that is...?

[Maximilianus]

I'm from Canada. (The cold part, where it snows 9 or 10 months of the year and where there are two occupations - repairing igloos and driving sled teams.) Yeah, again, it's "Up North" and "it's really cold there".

How cool! ... so much snow... or should I say "how cold"? :p

[L.M. The Third]

How cool! ... so much snow... or should I say "how cold"? :p

It has to do with the survival of the fittest. The weaker ones (like me) sit in their igloos with their books and computers, but still fear turning into :cold: if they step out the front door.
The fittest (from the sounds of it Juniper is among them) evolve into polar bears, to the amazement of visiting Americans from the South.

[Maximilianus]

It has to do with the survival of the fittest. The weaker ones (like me) sit in their igloos with their books and computers, but still fear turning into :cold: if they step out the front door.
In our severe summers, strong guys like me can melt even in the coolest shade of the best AC, no matter how much strength we put forward http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/heat.gif Here it's pretty much like in Canada... only that the other way round :lol:

[L.M. The Third]

In our severe summers, strong guys like me can melt even in the coolest shade of the best AC, no matter how much strength we put forward http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/heat.gif Here it's pretty much like in Canada... only that the other way round :lol:

I don't think I'd like that very much either, to put it mildly! I'm a typical Canadian, I complain about the weather a lot. But we have lots of topics for conversation here: The weather, the weather, the weather,...

[Maximilianus]

I don't think I'd like that very much either, to put it mildly! I'm a typical Canadian, I complain about the weather a lot. But we have lots of topics for conversation here: The weather, the weather, the weather,...

And I'm a typical Argentinian.. "How's the weather?"... "is it hot?"... "I wish it were winter"... "when will winter finally come?" and so on. And when we have a mild winter there are those yearning for summer again, as though we were ever going to run out of summers... :frown2:

[L.M. The Third]

How "cold" is winter in Argentina? And how long?