It seems to me that there are a lot of Americans here.Am I right or not? And what other nationalities do we have here? Romanian anyone? Just curious...
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I'm Romanian! I live in Bacau!(you can't visit anything here, in this city, shops rule), saluty, ce bine k nu sunt singurik prin toate raspunsurile astea...nu-tzi fa tu probleme, adjectivele care determina un substantiv nu sunt neaparat calitatzi, spune ceva in romana lui cowboy, asha, sa nu shtie, sa se oftice:))Love, kisses, little fluffy hearts, bye!
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iam irish and im living in america for the summer. before i came over i had it in my head that all americans were stoopid and hadn't a clue what was goin on. i also thought that i would see a lotmore fake people with plastic surgery and the like...now that im here i think its like any other place and the people are really nice...and dont act as stupid as i thought!
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Hi muAn, \n\nI used to have the same idea as you that Americans/Europeans do not care about their elders but that's just a generalization. I realized that we cannot just look at them as a whole but we need to look at them as individuals. We must also respect them as we respect our elders. \n\ntake care =)
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I think most of those that come here do so for the opportunity  or country has a history of providing and bear no contempt or hate for the US or the people. There are those that come here to exploit and take advantage of the US but they are a minority. I think its the ones that can't get in, are jealous or are trouble makers in general that give the perception of the bad immigrant or US haters. I do agre with you though, love or get the **** out.
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take it a step further where the hell is Caucasia?  The way I see it you are American or English or African etc.  Not African-American, etc.  If you are an American you're an American.  You never hear Caucasians saying German-American, etc.  I say let's all go universal and use American
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I am an American and live in the USA. I love the diversity of people here from all over the world and all that they add to the culture of this country.
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Jews from all over Europe....Irish, German and Italian....And some didn't necessarily come to make this a great country, like you hear so many here say....Remember all the Italian, Irish and Jewish gangs?
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1)Yes, we still live in a racist country.  I am a 46 year old Black woman who has experienced quite a bit of racism bcos of the color of my skin (caramel) without any knowledge of who I really am.  I have traveled quite a bit within the states as well as other countries & honestly cannot see much of a difference.  Point in case...I've even traveled to Africa & have been faced with questions like "what are you?".  I think that I offended the one asking the question bcos I said "I'm an American".  They responded "do you mean African-American?" to which I responded "sure if thats how you would like to phrase it".  2) Yes my parents had a hard time but they "dealt with it" by being active in the civil rights movement.  My great-grandmother would never let me work in the fields when I visited saying " no way, your Mom & Grandmama would have a fit & besides those days are over for your generation".  She was right, however there are others here who seem to forget that.  With regards to "us guys" still living in this country...this is our country & we'll fight for the right to live here....in peace.
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CHILL DUDE.\ni'm from UK and i personally think the Americans are great i've met quite a few and found them all to be polite and friendly and very warm people.\nWhat you say we think about you may apply to some but then again there is no shortage of that kind of people in the UK too,and probably any country you can think of.
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Yes, I like y'all pretty well.  Americans find it almost impossible to think of Canada as a foreign country. . . we even have some of your money circulating around down here and people spend it just like ours.  We think the same thing about Australia and New Zealand and Britain, though.  Just family members who happen to live in different houses.
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I have learned that it is not the American people that the rest of the world doens't like, it's the politics and policies of the government.  Sometimes it comes across as anti-american.  I do wish that the ones who are saying these things would get to know some Americans as you have.  There are good and bad from everywhere.
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Well i am biased when I say that I rather live in America even with all of it's troubles.  This is a beautiful country with a relitave short history but a treasured one as well.  America has had it's dark periods that we wish we can sweep under the rug-- but what country doesen't have them ten fold.  Mother and Father's parents were born in Italy so I have a love of sorts of that country too.  But my allgience goes to the USA. \n\nAnd as for Americans being war mongers remember the OLD COUNTRY and AISA nations have had thousands and thousands of years of battle and bickering and it seemed  people forgot them because it happened so many years ago.   We are about 230 years old -- a baby !  But it is nice to know that this young country of ours took in people from different countries and made it a super power in every sence of the word.   And that  the people that live in America are here because they came here from Europe.   Not all but Europe was used as a comparasion.  \n\n\n\nAnd that the Europeans that look down on us are looking down on themselves -
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I'm Latin, I don't live in the states and hopefully will never have to, even though I have a self owned house there, anyway here in my country we have some ilegal north americans and I'm not ignorant enough to judge them by their inmigration status,but I guess that's because of the different educational and cultural background we have with some egomaniac countries.Some people are really pathetic.
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keep in mind my friend, that many from other countries log onto the U.S. region of yahoo just to stir up hate. I know this for a fact. People will wine and complain, just know that as Americans we do live in the greatest country there is. God Bless America!!!!
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There are differences in the way non-Americans express themselves (and it's not all due to poor English!). \nBut come to think of it, I'm not sure if those differences represent our different countries. I'd rather say that we're all 'aliens' in a product that is basically US-targeted, and maybe we're eager to please and give a good impression (many US users just don't seem to care). Some cultural differences are apparent, especially with respect to the perception of humor and irony; that's when the common sociocultural background becomes more visible, I think. \nI have no idea if I project something of Argentina in my Q&A, and I don't know what a "typical" Argentine person is like. We're said to be pedantic and think ourselves too cool, but that's just a stereotype... or is it? There was another user from Argentina here that sounded really silly, and I didn't want this person to be associated with 'my' country!\n\nI guess this question was directed at US users...I wanted to add my contribution anyway. I have to say that the mere fact that you call yourselves "Americans", as if the rest of us lived in Oceania or quite another continent, makes me smile. And I think that says a lot about the US too!\n--------------------\nUpdate: Hola Rantrax!! No, it was not you. Glad to know more of us are joining this :-D
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Yes, there's quite a lot of us from the UK, although we don't all still LIVE there, some of us are in other countries now!\n\nThe UK link at the bottom is a bit of a waste of time ... the questions are still the same .com ones!!!\n\nAnyway, lots of people ask questions like "For Brits only - what does this mean ...??" so just go ahead and post those Qs!!
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The number of portuguese immigrants in the US may be insignificant for the host country, but is not at all insignificant for Portugal, considering the resident population here is only 10 million. In USA there are around 1.153.000 portuguese immigrants and descendants (probably the biggest portuguese community after the one in Brazil, although I couldn't find accurate data about this), of which more than 210.000  were actually  born in Portugal, and of these about 92.500 were granted American citizenship. It is estimated that between 1820 and 1990 some 500.000 portuguese have emmigrated to the US. Nowadays, however, only about 1000 emmigrate to the US a year (of which more than half already have a close family member there). This is due to Portugal's economical and social growth, which is turning it into an "immigration country" rather than an "emmigration country", and also to the fact that a portuguese citizen is now a EU citizen, which makes it a lot easier to emmigrate to european countries than to anywhere else (no visa, green card or any kind of permit required to live and work in any EU country).\n\nPortuguese emmigration to the US started in the 17th century, and  since the beginning most immigrants came from the portuguese archipelago of Azores. The most intense period of portuguese immigration to the US was the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.\n\nThere are people of portuguese origin in every american state. The one where there are fewer portuguese is North Dakota - about 300. The state with the largest portuguese community is California, where it rises up to 1% of the state's population (about 330.000). Massachusetts comes second, with 280.000, followed by Rhode Island, 91.000 (8,7% of the state's population) and New Jersey, 72.000.\n\nI couldn't find you any useful links in english. Even in portuguese it was hard, and I couldn't get you the specific data you asked for. If I talk about my personal experience, my family members who live in the US are very well integrated into the american society, they are middle to high class (which they weren't when they arrived there), and work in many different areas. Most of the young ones attend or have attended college. As for the language, some of them taught their children portuguese and speak portuguese at home, others don't. An interesting thing though - most of them married other portuguese, even those who don't speak portuguese at home and don't seem very interested in celebrating their portuguese origin.\n\nSorry, this is all I could get you. So if you need more information, namely statistical data about age, gender, social class, educational level, etc. of the emmigrants, as well as info about portuguese associations, portuguese festivals (I know in some places our national day, June 10th, is celebrated on the streets) and other ways of embracing their portuguese heritage, I guess contacting the embassy or a consulate would be a good idea. I tried to find their websites, but most of them don't even have one and the others are in portuguese only, so I'll leave you some contacts here. Good luck on your research!\n\nEmbaixada de Portugal em Washington\n2125- Kalorama Road, N.W\nWashington DC 20008\nPhone: (202) 328 86 10/ 328 90 25/ 328 87 89\n\nSecção Consular da Embaixada de Portugal em Washington\n2310 Tracy Place, NY\nWashington. DC, DC 20008\nPhone: (202) 332 30 07\n\nConsulado Geral de Portugal em Boston\n899 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor\nBoston, MA 02115\nPhone: (617) 536 87 40\n\nCônsul Honorário de Portugal no Hawaii\n18 Kanakanut Astreet\nHonolulu, Hawaii 96819\nPhone: (808) 841 28 28\n\nCônsul de Portugal em Los Angeles\n1801 Av. Of the Stars, Suite 400\nLos Angeles, Califórnia 90067\nPhone: (1310) 277 14 91\n\nConsulado de Portugal em Newark\nThe Legal Center at One Riverfront Plaza\nNewark, NJ 07102\nPhone: (973) 643 42 00\n\nConsulado de Portugal em