Padraig18
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:33 PM
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Poll question: American DUers: How many foreign-born people do you know? |
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How many people who weren't born in the USA do you actually know, as in more than 'nodding acquaintances'?
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nothingshocksmeanymore
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:35 PM
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1. I know dozens if not hundreds |
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The dozens are friends, neighbors and employees. The hundreds are my clients, many migrant workers.
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Padraig18
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:37 PM
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2. I know tons of them, as well. |
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Just in my and Tony's families alone, probably 50+.
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:40 PM
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3. I live in Central Florida. |
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Do you really have the time?
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:41 PM
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if our acquaintanceship with those from other countries has changed our perceptions of foreign policy. I know that in my case it has, because many of my friends are from the Middle East.
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:44 PM
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5. Yep, and they're still foreign... Dresden, Germany - My Co-workers at AMD |
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Sat Feb-07-04 04:46 PM
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6. Two French Canadians and one from Georgia |
Bertha Venation
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Sat Feb-07-04 05:52 PM
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One of my best friends is married to a Brit. :eyes: How could I forget him?
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Sat Feb-07-04 05:00 PM
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7. oodles and oodles of 'em |
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I've lived and/or worked in Silicon Valley for 20 years - plenty of people from all over the world.
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Sat Feb-07-04 05:44 PM
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8. Married to 1, stepmother/aunt to 4, know hundreds |
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Husband born in Chile His 2 children born in Honduras His brother's 2 children (we took them in) born in Honduras
Know hundreds born outside USA, perhaps because I work in the IT technology field?
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Sat Feb-07-04 05:47 PM
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Tons of counselors and other kids were from other countries.
Also a bunch of kids in my school are foreign born (Norway, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, Lebanon)
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Sat Feb-07-04 06:06 PM
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11. English, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Austrian, Australian, |
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Japanese, German, Russian (Georgia), Iran, French, Canadian. Cajun don't count, but it should. It's like the damn United Nations around here. Just one big happy melting pot. ;-)
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Sat Feb-07-04 06:07 PM
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12. Oh hell, I forgot Norway and Sweden. And Denmark. |
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Edited on Sat Feb-07-04 06:09 PM by trof
And South Africa. Us aviators do get around.
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Sat Feb-07-04 06:10 PM
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13. I was married to a Korean for 20 years |
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I know a whole bunch of ex-in-laws.
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Sat Feb-07-04 07:43 PM
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14. There were several international students at college |
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Many of them worked with me in the dining hall since it was one of the few on campus jobs that hired students who did not have federal work study. There were a few foreign born professors too. Before that, I had a few Mexican friends, a couple friends born in various countries that I met through the Y, and an Indian doctor.
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Sat Feb-07-04 07:53 PM
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I'm an Army brat born in Japan
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Sat Feb-07-04 07:58 PM
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foreign born American DUer...
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