What is a Foreign Country?

16 years ago

Well, when I was a little kid, I went to mexico.I remember some people with a small camper, me with a poncho and sombrero, and I remember how I bought a comic book(actual book) with mikeymouse and donald duck, in spanish. I was about 4 at the time.

Outside of that, I guess that my trip to europe 21 years later was about as close as it got.

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Lawrh

16 years ago

>Are some countries local and others foreign?

I'm not sure the term "local" can be applied to a country. Anywhere you are is "local". A country is a collection of "locals".

Foreign countries are simply countries other than the one of your birth or adopted home.

>Have you ever gone traveling in a local country?

Again, not sure they exist.

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Kurt

16 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Are some countries local and others foreign?

Have you ever gone traveling in a local country?

Only one country is local. All the others are foreign.

Originally Posted by seasoned

Well, when I was a little kid, I went to mexico.I remember some people with a small camper, me with a poncho and sombrero, and I remember how I bought a comic book(actual book) with mikeymouse and donald duck, in spanish. I was about 4 at the time.

Outside of that, I guess that my trip to europe 21 years later was about as close as it got.

Steve

Hmmmm...Not too America-centric, are we?

BTW...Europe is not a country.

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thunderbird 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Only one country is local. All the others are foreign.

Yeah, I know...China is the only local country in the world. Outside of China, everybody is an outsider (lao wai).
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seasoned 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Only one country is local. All the others are foreign.

Hmmmm...Not too America-centric, are we?

BTW...Europe is not a country.

OK, should I say denmark, switzerland, and germany? YEAH, I KNOW that EUROPE is a CONTINENT and not a country, then again, it isn't LOCAL either! AMERICA, in a way isn't a country EITHER! Mexico and Canada are BOTH in america. Since the USA is ALSO in america, and borders the other two,the states are LOCAL, even if they ARE foreign. It IS interesting that so many patriotic songs of and by "Americans"(AKA US citizens) refer to America, and we have the American flag! BTW Wikipedia says that mexico is called the united states of mexico! Talk about CONFUSING! I guess we can't call the USA US either! Someone get ISO on the phone QUICK! 8-O

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HeySal

16 years ago

Lawrence has one right - if you don't reside there, it's a foreign country.

As far as local countries, you might hear that in Europe or the Middle East where you can pass through several countries in one day of driving, but when there is only one or two other countries that are near you, I don't think it would be a very relevant way to state things.

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KenThompson

16 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Are some countries local and others foreign?

Have you ever gone traveling in a local country?

sometimes it feels like a foreign planet.

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Dave Patterson

16 years ago

We all live in foreign countries....to somebody...

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Gasen

16 years ago

If it's not local, it's foreign
If it's not Foreign, it's local
If it's neither of the above, it's extraterrestial

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ZXT

16 years ago

Anything outside of my birth country or the country I'm living in is Foreign.

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myob

16 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

OK, should I say denmark, switzerland, and germany? YEAH, I KNOW that EUROPE is a CONTINENT and not a country, then again, it isn't LOCAL either! AMERICA, in a way isn't a country EITHER! Mexico and Canada are BOTH in america. Since the USA is ALSO in america, and borders the other two,the states are LOCAL, even if they ARE foreign. It IS interesting that so many patriotic songs of and by "Americans"(AKA US citizens) refer to America, and we have the American flag! BTW Wikipedia says that mexico is called the united states of mexico! Talk about CONFUSING! I guess we can't call the USA US either! Someone get ISO on the phone QUICK! 8-O

Steve

Let me see if I can clarify this once and for all. When foreigners immigrate, they beome local, or domesticated. Relatively speaking, Europe is a foreign continent to locals living in the North American continent. South America is also a continent but is considered to be relatively local by North American domestics. But when you start mixing these foreign and domestic relatives together over time (along with some Tequila), then the distinctions become blurred between foreign, domestic, and local relatives. Many of our local domestics are foreign immigrants, and they have local relatives as well as many more in foreign countries. So with enough domestication of foreign relatives, everybody and everything will eventually beome local.

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Kay King 16 years ago

If I'm not living there - it's foreign. If you aren't living here - I'm foreign.
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KenThompson

16 years ago

Foreign and local are many things, can be many things, and a lot
depends on perspective. They are concepts and abstracts firmly
implanted in the collective mind by those who felt the need to
have an agenda. From there all things flowed.

From another perspective, nothing is foreign or local. Nothing is
unknown. We are everything all at once. We are everywhere all
at once.

I am you, and you are me.

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thunderbird

16 years ago

Originally Posted by KenThompson

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From another perspective, nothing is foreign or local. Nothing is
unknown. We are everything all at once. We are everywhere all
at once.

I am you, and you are me.

Holy moly, this has become a quantum physics thread. The lungs of every person and every dog on this planet will contain at least one of the molecules that left Julius Caesar's mouth when he said, "Et tu, Brutus."

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seasoned

16 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Holy moly, this has become a quantum physics thread. The lungs of every person and every dog on this planet will contain at least one of the molecules that left Julius Caesar's mouth when he said, "Et tu, Brutus."

I DISAGREE! We have a BEATLES fan!!!!!

I am He as You are He as You are Me
And We are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-Shirt
Stupid Bloody Tuesday
Man, you been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

(Chorus):
I am the Eggman
They are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
GOO GOO GA JOOB

Mr. City Policeman
Sitting pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly
Like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm Crying
I'm Crying
I'm Crying
I'm Crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornagraphic Priestess
Boy, you been a naughty Girl
You let your knickers down

(Chorus)

Sitting in an English garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You'll get a tan from
Standing in the English Rain

(Chorus)

Expert Texpert
Choking smokers
Don't you think the Joker
Laughs at You?
Ho-Ho-Ho-Hee-Hee-Hee-Ha-Ha-HA!
See how they smile
Like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm Crying
Semolina Pilchard
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary Penguin
Singing Hare Krishna
Man you shoulda seen them
Kicking Edgar Allen Poe

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Everyone has one, everybody has one!)

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ThomM 16 years ago

What is a Foreign Country?

Massachusetts?
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- seasoned 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ThomM
  
  Massachusetts?
  
  YIKES! YOU'RE RIGHT! THAT EXPLaINS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  BTW, I have to give the standard disclaimer! My current project is in.......
  
  GULP 8-/
  
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  Massachusetts! I could say MUCH more but...
  
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feizar

16 years ago

the country in which u are born is ur local home country rest all countries foreign

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David Louis Monk

16 years ago

I am living in England or Britain or the UK. This is where I was born. Whichever you want to call it , I used to think this was the country to which I belong; I am no longer certain of that.

This forum is not for expressing religion or politics though otherwise for that reason I am a stranger and pilgrim and have no allegiance to any country.

From the amount of immigrants and integration that has now taken place, I wonder whether I am living in a foreign country at times. It is strange to see who you think is a foreigner speaking in a local dialect.

I am not saying that I dislike what has happened; I am saying that is the way it is.

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Trustrup

16 years ago

I would say that where we have not been yet is a foreign country. Personally I have been to 64 countries and lived for longer periods in 6 of them, those countries are not foreign to me anymore, but countries I have not been to yet are still foreign.

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thunderbird

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Trustrup

I would say that where we have not been yet is a foreign country. Personally I have been to 64 countries and lived for longer periods in 6 of them, those countries are not foreign to me anymore, but countries I have not been to yet are still foreign.

That is a lot of territory you've covered. You are able to adapt and adjust to new places which demands a range of abilities that not everybody possesses. Some people get thrown off kilter just visiting a different neighborhood in their hometown.

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Trustrup

16 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

That is a lot of territory you've covered. You are able to adapt and adjust to new places which demands a range of abilities that not everybody possesses. Some people get thrown off kilter just visiting a different neighborhood in their hometown.

Thunderbird - I know what you mean about people who have never been outside their hometown, yet their home country. I remember visiting my great grandmother living in a tiny fishing village called Oqaatsut (Rodebay) in the Bay of Disko in Greenland. I guess it was in '79 or '80, she was 84 years old back then, and she had lived her whole life in Rodebay, with a trip to the nearest big city, Ilulissat, once or twice a year. Amazing woman she was.

Meeting Bubba, a 'Blanc' from North Carolina, living in Port au Prince with his Haitian girlfriend, in a slum neighborhood because he was wanted by the police back home for some petty crime, he worked as a ship-mechanic on the tug boats at the docks in Port au Prince.
Silvio in Miami, an illegal immigrant from Nicaragua, who had lived in Miami for 16 years when I met him.
Eric a former Danish sailor who lives on the Falkland Islands because he fell in love.
The boy I met at the market in Kaolack, Senegal, I forgot his name, with whom I swapped my worn-out Nike running pants with three holes in them for a pair of brand new trousers, they where green with motives of elephants and little black men all over.
Some of my dearest friends in Bradenton Florida, whom I have invited to come to Thailand on a holiday but they refuse to leave the US.

Wow, you really got my mind going at the moment, but to get back to the topic...

Home is where you hang your hat says it pretty well, because if it's "home" it is not foreign, is it?

Us humans are easily adaptable if we can accept our surroundings, and all this talk about borders, countries and where we come from is not really what should define the word "foreign". I like to think of it as places I have not been to, yet.

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unknownpray

16 years ago

Any place a person is not born in/living in is considered foreign.

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CDarklock

16 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Have you ever gone traveling in a local country?

You've never taken a drive in the country?

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thunderbird 16 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

You've never taken a drive in the country?

Nope. I can't even drive.
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- Lawrh 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by thunderbird
  
  Nope. I can't even drive.
  
  Learn. Driving around BC is awesome.
  
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  Learn. Driving around BC is awesome.
  
  It is. But I can only ride. There's definitely a lot I'm missing out on, but some people shouldn't drive -- I'm one of them.
  
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Nathaniel and Owen

16 years ago

A country that i currently don't live in is a foreign country to me:-)

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thunderbird

16 years ago

Originally Posted by reimer

a different country of the one you were born...? so I am a foreigner to you and all the warrior forum member seems foreigners to me because I am the only one from Chile, southamerica...

It seems I confused you even more...

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I've been to Chile. 'twas a long time ago. Great country, friendly people (way friendlier than Argentines, who I like enough, in my biased and unreliable experience). Hope earthquake recovery is going well.

When it comes to confusing, the injection of quantum physics non-locality theory (or was it Beatles song?) into the discussion really confused me (since I have enough trouble figuring out change I should get when I pay in cash).

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