How many nationalities in your home place?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
There are a lot more Southerners too but we don't count them as Confederates (just morans).

But can they spell ?



I do find the idea of your comparing 'Southerners' with Kurds quite funny.

The Kurds have several thousands of years of history to look back on.

[Colon™]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Yes but Kurds and Karens and Palestinians all regard themselves as being 'nations'.

And in the case of the Kurds there are a lot more of them than there are inhabitants of small Pacific atoll 'nations'...

The common use of nationality is that as a legal concept, linking a person to a sovereign state. If customs asks a Kurd what nationality he is he'll have to respond he's Turkish (or Iranian or Syrian...). The Kurdish state does not legally exist hence there's no Kurdish nationality.
If you want to make a poll to ask people how many cultures or ethicities their home places have, by all means go ahead.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
There are a lot more Southerners too, but we don't count them as Confederates (just morans).

You dont play Victoria, do you?

[Drogue]

200+ (London). Hell, my university has more than 100.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
Umeå has around 130 nationalities / 110.000 people, which makes us approximately 18.2% more diverse than your town

Oxford university: 130 nationalities / 18000 people.

[C0ckney]

as well as all the home nations being represented we've got portuguese, polish and a few other eastern european, immigrant workers. we've got a turkish kebab man, chinese, italian and indian restaurants. a couple of the local farmers have imported mail order brides from the far east and there's a very nice korean lady who works in the pharmacy. there's also some black dude from one the caribbean islands, but i forget which.

you never really think about it, but there are quite a lot considering it's a pretty small town in rural somerset.

[Herra Gautason]

Humm...let me count the nationalities in Vopnafjordur. Icelandic(naturally), several Danes, one Swede that I know about and one finnish woman. A total of...four.

[Dry]

If you add french fries, spanish guitars, chinese food, russian vodka and american coca cola, I'm sure you can do better than 4.

[joncha]

Originally posted by Bosh
Seongnam, South Korea << ALL

Today the most ethnically diverse person I saw was one person in the subway mumbling in their own private language!

For teh win!

Up for a Polymeet some time in the next few weeks? I'm off to Pusan in the morning, but I'll be in and around Seoul until the end of August.

[Qilue]

Only one nationality where I live - Human.

[Colon™]

*yawns*

[Ecthy]

Where is Human and what nationality is there?

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Colon™
The common use of nationality is that as a legal concept, linking a person to a sovereign state.

Depends on the continent, actually. In North America, ethnicity is the usual subject of polite discussion. It's also what the census asks for -- not the country of birth. Citizenship rarely comes up. I imagine that Kurds would introduce themselves as Kurds.

[Blaupanzer]

Colon,
The 200 + option is invalid if you wished the answer restricted to legal nationalities. There are right around 150 of those, depending on who is recognizing whom at the moment. I'll stick with my original response, 200 +, although there are fewer embassied nationalities than that.

[Blaupanzer]

Also quite a few people were born in countries that no longer exist, whose borders have moved, or that have changed their names. Also folks regard themselves as nationals of states that do not exist. (Then consider the native tribes in their homelands and reservations -- a sub-category of nations.)