Who do Americans consider closer
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Topic: Who do Americans consider closer
Posted By: The Hidden Face
Subject: Who do Americans consider closer
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 12:28
| Just wondering. Who? (except English speaking nations) |
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Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 12:37
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Hmm, I think that would depend on whether they have German, Italian, mexican et al ancestry! ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 12:39
Well geographically Mexico's alot close. However, we all know what American geography knowledge is like 
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Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 14:17
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Like country, nation, France; privatelly, from person to person, Germans.
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Posted By: Suren
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 14:22
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Germans. Most of Americans have German ancestors. ------------- Anfører |
Posted By: Top Gun
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 14:46
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nonsense a americans has a lot of nationalities as ancestors the one is irish the other british the othere italian
I think Israel is very close because its copying everything that is american ------------- |
Posted By: Dan Carkner
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 15:35
| Politically I voted Japan, although I agree with the whole german thing, a lot of americans have german ancestry. (Heck, I am descended from German-speaking Americans.) however it's not so much spoken aloud politically, but then again they did intern japanese during wwII and not germans. |
Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 19:04
But i think that the americans have an strongest political connection with France, democracy and common freedom fight; it's recurrent the idea of the friendship between these two greats democracies and the americans don't hide it, contrary, they are proud about this. ------------- |
Posted By: malizai_
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 20:53
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voted chinese. ------------- |
Posted By: Ponce de Leon
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 21:20
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I have to say Morrocan ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 21:30
| I know there are quite a lot of Italians in the U.S. population as well. So I voted that. |
Posted By: Suren
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 21:32
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg ------------- Anfører |
Posted By: SearchAndDestroy
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 22:49
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I guess I'll go with Italian only because my last name is Italian. But I consider myself American and feel more related to our brother of the North, Canada. ------------- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." E.Abbey 
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Posted By: King John
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2007 at 23:57
| From this list I would have to go with the Germans. Germans were put in internment camps just not on the level that the Japanese were. Are Americans really that close with France? |
Posted By: SearchAndDestroy
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 00:09
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There are the French in New England who came from Montreal, my mother's side is one of those. There is also the French in New Orleans, the Cajuns.
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Posted By: King John
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 00:40
| Ancestry doesn't indicate closeness. I took the question to be political not ancestral. You seem to be taking it ancestrally. Some have stated a political closeness to France I don't think that the US is closer (politically) to France than Germany |
Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 00:44
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I voted France, so many similarities between two states. That is also probably the reason the two hate eachother so much.
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Posted By: Top Gun
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 05:30
no that can't be this map must be fake ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 08:36
It's based on the US census, I don't see why the census should give fake statistics. How do you think that map should look like then? ------------- |
Posted By: SearchAndDestroy
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 18:43
------------- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." E.Abbey
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02-Feb-2007 at 18:48
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This is quite curious,
1 in 9 Americans consider Mexico to be closer
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Posted By: Xshayathiya
Date Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 21:23
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I voted Japan. Right now the US is a sponge for Japanese culture, especially at the lower ages. ------------- "I like rice. Rice is great if you are hungry and want 2000 of something." - Mitch Hedberg |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 21:45
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And Canada is a sponge for Chinese culture. Isn't that funny?
Pinguin
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 02:00
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I seriously believe that it isn't in the spirit of this thread for non-Americans to vote in this pole. I voted for German culture because the American experience with Germany isn't modern germany but rather the historical fantasy of "The Fatherland." This isn't a unique american phenomenon, turn of the century British thought of themselves as german cousins (perhaps because of the royal family, for which that applied literally) and as such espoused such noble qualities to the german people that americans likewise copied. It stuck more in america since they didn't suffer through two world wars and it had a larger german population. Then again my experience could be more of a local one, I mean if you heard some conversations I've had with people around here you'd think we we're all Rommel Nazis* *Along the lines of "You know Hitler wouldn't be so bad if he didn't start killing Jews." -Actually line I heard once.
Actually that map is 100% accurate Top Gun, remember though it's most ancestry so that means that they majority of those counties are more like 20-30% of that nationality than 70-80% of it. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 21:16
Who said I am not an American?
I may not be an U.S. citizen but you should remember that AMERICA is the name that was given to SOUTH AMERICA
And remember that your ancestors came to the Americas after everyone else
 (just pulling legs, of course)
By the way, there are quite a lot of German descendents in South America as well.
Regards,
Omar
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 16:55
Yeah but we're all from Africa anyway so in the end location matters for nothing. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Ponce de Leon
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2007 at 16:48
Hey Japan is definitly a sponge for US culture as well. The Japanese love Disney!!! ------------- |
Posted By: tommy
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 13:31
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The nation who can provide the biggest market and greatest profit to american ------------- leung |
Posted By: T. Ape
Date Posted: 26-Mar-2007 at 15:34
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I say Japan. As someone said before, America is a sponge for Japanese culture right now.
On the other hand, the countries of Germany and France are not highly thought of in America. Using French or German as an adjective typically means two things: One, it is fancy or expensive. Two, it is submissive or sissy-ish.
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Posted By: Gundamor
Date Posted: 26-Mar-2007 at 19:36
Can you explain that to me? I don't see a lot of Chinese culture just a lot of Chinese. I live in Toronto to which is one of the most mixed cultured cities in the world. ------------- "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" |
Posted By: Lord Ranulf
Date Posted: 26-Mar-2007 at 20:08
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Actualy Americans in the main are unfortunately aren't interested in anything related to the premise this thread has developed into imo. That is to say the 'joe' on the street 8-5 busting his butt to make a living and pay his bills. And if the choices reflected above represent anything it's the more educated and or simply inquisitive individual who would broaden his or her academic horizones imo.
Because in the end to those people, it's more then just cheap cars or even loss of jobs thru offshore movement and or working in the same as middle level management. Or trade bases and baseline economics and international realpolitik. It indeed might even be ethnicaly related as an immigrant loves his past yet loves his new country etc. Or it might be all of those things i just cited; because of the individual impact felt and percieved by whomever you query. I for example didnt even vote because Britain wasn't on the list and that would have been my personal choice.
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Posted By: Justinian
Date Posted: 22-May-2007 at 21:40
I voted for the germans, I look at the french as more of a big brother type, constant arguing between siblings, with germany as one of the parents. Of course in Minnesota it seems like 90% of the population has scandinavian or german ancestry. Nothing but blonde hair and blue eyes. ------------- "War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann 
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Posted By: SearchAndDestroy
Date Posted: 23-May-2007 at 19:18
------------- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." E.Abbey
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