I am from Poland.
@ gotlucky
How do you define American? Who is American? There is what’s called “American ethnicity,” which is used to refer to the descendants of the colonists of the original Thirteen British Colonies, but then the only “ethnic Americans” comprise a very small amount of the population. Then there are the Natives of course, but some wouldn’t call them American (even they themselves normally wouldn’t.)
So is an American a person who is born in the country?
I don’t think it really matters. Wheylous is not an American citizen, unless he has become naturalized.
I have not.
I’m from Spain (Barcelona).
I’m form Maryland, but I was born on a U.S base in Germany.
Does that count?
Which country are you a citizen of, Wheylous? Do you go back to visit often?
Bulgaria. I go back from time to time.
“I’m Eastern European but I live in the US.”
As soon as I first saw one of your posts I knew that you had to be a dirty foreigner… Probably stole a job right out of the hands of a hardworking middle class American supporting a wife and four kids… Because that’s what you people do!
Back in the 1400s, immigrants sure stole a lot of Indian jobs…land…lives…
No one was stealing anything in the 1400’s, and the proper term is Native American you.
BOOM!
Just got pwnd by a jingoist!
Now is a good time to remember the atrocities Homo sapiens did to the Neanderthals. Hey, we are all Africans!
Merlin, what’s your view of Enver Hoxha’s Albania? Were you alive during his time?
@ Wheylous
Were you around during the Marxist-Leninist era?
I was two when the wretched thing went down, soI don’t remember anything. The only personal note I can add is the realization that my brother’s generation (born immediately after the collapse of the regime) is a few centimeters higher in general than mine, all because milk was hard to find in the last years. All in all, a stupid, stupid waste of time that socialist regime.
I would never have guessed that anybody here was from Albania. I think it would be an interesting place to visit. Heard good things about it from other backpackers I’ve met in Europe.
Hear, hear. Thus begins the Revolution!
If you do come over, let me know so you can get a beer from the Mises Albania&Kosovo group: right now two members, but we’re planning aggressive expansion