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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:33 PM
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Poll question: American DUers: How many foreign-born people do you know?
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 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:35 PM
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1. I know dozens if not hundreds
The dozens are friends, neighbors and employees. The hundreds are my clients, many migrant workers.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:37 PM
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2. I know tons of them, as well.
Just in my and Tony's families alone, probably 50+.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:40 PM
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3. I live in Central Florida.
Do you really have the time?
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:41 PM
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4. I wonder
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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Intelsucks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
n/t
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 04:46 PM
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6. Two French Canadians and one from Georgia
(the Russian Georgia)
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 05:52 PM
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10. DUH!
One of my best friends is married to a Brit. :eyes: How could I forget him?
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 05:00 PM
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7. oodles and oodles of 'em
I've lived and/or worked in Silicon Valley for 20 years - plenty of people from all over the world.
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 05:44 PM
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8. Married to 1, stepmother/aunt to 4, know hundreds
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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MAlibdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 05:47 PM
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9. Summer camp
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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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:06 PM
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11. English, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Austrian, Australian,
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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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:07 PM
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12. Oh hell, I forgot Norway and Sweden. And Denmark.
Edited on Sat Feb-07-04 06:09 PM by trof
And South Africa.
Us aviators do get around.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:10 PM
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13. I was married to a Korean for 20 years
I know a whole bunch of ex-in-laws.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:43 PM
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14. There were several international students at college
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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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:53 PM
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15. Myself, for one
I'm an Army brat born in Japan
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:58 PM
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16. I'm a...
foreign born American DUer...

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