what countries was you born in?

kashveera said:
I was born in the republic of South Africa.
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No offense but you don't look African to me. Are you Indian? From my quick search on your hometown, I was surprised to see that your hometown consists of about 20% of Indians & Asians. Never thought I'd see that kind of thing in South Africa!
 
Jiro said:
No offense but you don't look African to me. Are you Indian? From my quick search on your hometown, I was surprised to see that your hometown consists of about 20% of Indians & Asians. Never thought I'd see that kind of thing in South Africa!
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I am an Indian South African, yes, I am very Indian as well, I have the long black hair, all the asian features...though I wish I could be as beautiful as some of the Bollywood Super Stars...well, that is just a stupid wish! Because, knowing me, I'd rather appreciate myself!

Well, if there is anything I am very proud of in my country, is the multi-racial democracy that we live in, we have a true rainbow nation of people. Our country is one nation full of different cultures and people.

I will give you a little history as to how this happened...Many moons ago, South Africa was part of the British Empire, so many indians from India fuelled with a need for a better life, decided to come and work in the sugar cane plantations, and thus embarked on many ships and came to our country, and there began the Indian settlers of South Africa.

For interest sake, many people know Mahatma Gandhi was the father of India, but his thoughts, and his ideology was sown in South Africa when he lived here during apartheid (which I don't even want to talk about, you can compare it to Hitler's treatment of the Jews during the Nazi's times)...but if you really want to know about it, I can tell you more.

Hope this helps!!
 
kashveera said:
I am an Indian South African, yes, I am very Indian as well, I have the long black hair, all the asian features...though I wish I could be as beautiful as some of the Bollywood Super Stars...well, that is just a stupid wish! Because, knowing me, I'd rather appreciate myself!

Well, if there is anything I am very proud of in my country, is the multi-racial democracy that we live in, we have a true rainbow nation of people. Our country is one nation full of different cultures and people.

I will give you a little history as to how this happened...Many moons ago, South Africa was part of the British Empire, so many indians from India fuelled with a need for a better life, decided to come and work in the sugar cane plantations, and thus embarked on many ships and came to our country, and there began the Indian settlers of South Africa.

For interest sake, many people know Mahatma Gandhi was the father of India, but his thoughts, and his ideology was sown in South Africa when he lived here during apartheid (which I don't even want to talk about, you can compare it to Hitler's treatment of the Jews during the Nazi's times)...but if you really want to know about it, I can tell you more.

Hope this helps!!
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most interesting! Since it said that there are other Asian populations in there as well..... specifically what nationality? I'm assuming Chinese?
 
Jiro said:
most interesting! Since it said that there are other Asian populations in there as well..... specifically what nationality? I'm assuming Chinese?
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Hey, theres everyone here...I have some Chinese Friends, there's Indian, there's Japanese, I even know someone from South Korea, there's Malaysian folks that live in my area as well. Theres guys from Bangladesh, from Pakistan, from Dubai...

Actually there's Italian folks, there's some Greek, my best friend is Portuguese...

So our country is a mosaic filled country!
 
kashveera said:
Hey, theres everyone here...I have some Chinese Friends, there's Indian, there's Japanese, I even know someone from South Korea, there's Malaysian folks that live in my area as well. Theres guys from Bangladesh, from Pakistan, from Dubai...

Actually there's Italian folks, there's some Greek, my best friend is Portuguese...

So our country is a mosaic filled country!
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oh I mean the "majority" of Asian population. I'm wondering what's the predominant Asian nationality in your hometown.

For me - my town and several other towns connected to it, it's predominantly Korean... greatly outnumbering Chinese and Japanese populations together. However - right across the river which is NYC has a Chinese population that outnumbers Koreans by a huge margin, I believe.
 
Jiro said:
oh I mean the "majority" of Asian population. I'm wondering what's the predominant Asian nationality in your hometown.

For me - my town and several other towns connected to it, it's predominantly Korean... greatly outnumbering Chinese and Japanese populations together. However - right across the river which is NYC has a Chinese population that outnumbers Koreans by a huge margin, I believe.
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Indians are far greater in Durban...far greater!
 
kashveera said:
Indians are far greater in Durban...far greater!
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for some funny reason, I've always had hard time viewing Indian as Asian... same with Philipino and Indonesian. :lol:

to me - a typical description of "Asian" is a yellow-skin person with sloped/slanted/squinty eyes and uses chopsticks :lol:
 
100% Korean - born in Korea, raised in America... hence a Korean-American :cool2: and I don't even speak Korean.

Sad thing is that I can speak spanish much more than korean :dunno:
 
Jiro said:
100% Korean - born in Korea, raised in America... hence a Korean-American :cool2: and I don't even speak Korean.

Sad thing is that I can speak spanish much more than korean :dunno:
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100% South African, born to Indian Parents, raised in South Africa, but I am South African Indian, and I don't even speak a word of Hindi, the language of my parents....but I understand the conversation, if they do speak in it!

Hard enough to grasp English!! Not gonna try anything else for now! I speak Afrikaans though, I had to learn it in School!
 
jasin said:
Don't you mean country? Countries is more then one country. Never heard of anyone being born in more then one country.


I was born here, in the USA.
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I have.... If you were born in Hawaii before it became a state :D
 
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