Comments on: Nationality and Blogging: America

By: I told you to speak your mind Jack, but Jesus | Bailing Bucket

I told you to speak your mind Jack, but Jesus | Bailing Bucket — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:02:32 +0000

[...] while ago, I wrote a post on Epiblogger about Nationality and Blogging—wondering about the affect my nationality has on me/us as a blogger. I received a bizarre [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:19:11 +0000

Being from Wales I have a similar experience of England. The Welsh and the Scots repeadly get referred to English. Great Britain and the UK are also referred to as English. The odd thing is that you could argue that the heritages of the Welsh and the Scots are richer, and less diluted than the English. After all, Welsh is the oldest European language that’s still being actively used.

It’s often Americans who make the mistake, and I have in the past compared calling me English to calling an American Canadian. After all, you are their bigger neighbours! And fir the record, I’m not anti-English, I live and work in England.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:13:40 +0000

My American friend just visited Toronto/Quebec a few weeks ago. She said Canadians are no different than Americans, except in Quebec just because they speak with French accent.

I agree with her.

I don’t know why (or if any) Canadians feel they have to be different than Americans. The cultures are the same. The influences are the same. We’re only separated by an imaginary border, not enough to keep both sides from being indistinguishable.

Me, personally, don’t care if I’m labelled Canadian or American. They’re both good to me.

By: Axel

Axel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:58:46 +0000

Hi!

This is Axel of the BBC World Service in London. I am working for “World Have You Say”, or discussion programm that runs daily from 6 to 8 pm London time, which is in 3 hours. Todays show is on national identity. The question is how we define that (language? patriotism?) or whether it is completely unimportant. We always like to include bloggers to the discussion, and after reading your blog I wondered whether you would like to participate in todays live discussion. We would greatly appreciate it.

Best Regards,

Axel

By: Rhett Soveran

Rhett Soveran — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:36:14 +0000

I absolutely agree with you. It’s true that I was attempting to make an over-generalization about border guards, people of authority, but when people are genuine I definitely pay attention.

By: Chantix

Chantix — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:09:33 +0000

Today, I think the “stand out” Americans are the sincere ones, the genuine ones. American can be a “get mine, worry about ME” world, and I think the person who (as corny as this sounds) lends a hand, helps a random person in need are the people to pay attention to. The border guards blended into the scene. But I ask this, if the guard lent a smile or SINCERELY asked how you were doing, would he have stood out to you?

By: Rhett Soveran

Rhett Soveran — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:41 +0000

Well, I was really asking if we were in Pacific time, but she took the opportunity to get a tease in. Which was fun. The Americans in Idaho were extremely friendly/witty.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:20:28 +0000

So why did you ask what time it was if there were clocks on every wall?