Your opinions needed!

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1. Age:
   42

2. Nationality:
   Australian

3. Family cultural origin
   Australian…6 or 7 generations ago England

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. A Building/Structure
   Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge

5. A Manufacturer
   Arnotts, though I am sure they have now ben gobled up by some huge multi national

6. A sports personality
   Don Dradman

7. Food
   Meat Pies

8. An event
   The Melbourne Cup

9. Item of Clothing
   The Bikini Created by Paula Stafford, QLD resident

VB is a Beer Victorian Bitter
Uluru is a huge monolith in the centre of Australia. It used to be called Ayers Rock

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Ah, I know what Ayers Rock is. That’s a common … symbol that I associate with Australia.

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Uluru is the traditional aboriginal name for it. It is a sacred place for them

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1. Age: 21

2. Nationality: australian

3. Family cultural origin: australian\austrian (yes)

4. A Building/Structure: sydney opera house/ bridge

5. A Manufacturer: collins class submarines. LOL

6. A sports personality: Pat Rafter

7. Food: four’n’twenty pies (hmmm could go for one now)

8. An event: sydney olypics… most likely… boring…

9. Item of Clothing: yeah thongs (and not the underwear)

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1. Age: 18

2. Nationality: Australian

3. Family cultural origin:almost 5th generation Aussie but ( 3/4 brittish, mainly irish with some english / other and about 1/4 german)

4. sydney harbour bridge / nearly anything in canberra such as parliment house / war memorial / nat museum etc

5. not really sure but, any of the big surf brands, holden (owned by GM, now though)

6. Steve waugh (just an all round champ / nice guy, he has given so much to charity and used his position to make people aware of the plight of others)

Grant hacket (no one ever gives him credit, they always look to ian thorpe, grant almost beat ian in the 400 meter freestyle at athens and he was sick on the day of the race / he was worse in the 1500 but still won by a fair margin)

the list could go on for ever so i choose the best two.

7. Vegimite on toast, Beer (VB, tooey’s NEW or extra dry), the good old BBQ with fish, sausages and steak etc…

8. ANZAC day, Australia day, any major sporting event we host (ie, olympics and rugby world cup)

9. Thongs (not the underware, but the foot ware) and UG boots

@love police

5. A Manufacturer: collins class submarines. LOL

lol they did a good job with them didn’t they.

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wow, that certainly brought the aussies out

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Another Brit to add to the list.

1. Age: 26

2. Nationality: English

3. Family cultural origin: White English

4. A Building/Structure: House of Parliament

5. A Manufacturer: Mini Cooper

6. A sports personality: Wayne Rooney

7. Food: Fish and chips

8. An event: FA Cup

9. Item of Clothing: Traditionally British - a suit

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1. Age: 40

2. Nationality: Scottish

3. Family cultural origin: Scottish

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. A Building/Structure: Edinburgh Castle

5. A Manufacturer: Tunnocks Tea Cakes

6. A sports personality: Jackie Stewart

7. Food: Haggis an’ neeps

8. An event: Highland Games

9. Item of Clothing: the kilt (what else )

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Holy crap your old Cello want me to help you down the stairs

1. 24

2. American

3. Ireland

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. The White House

5. Cadillac

6. Rem Dawg!

7. Cheeseburgers

8. Signing of the declaration of independance/9-11

9. wife beater

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[offtopic]
fester - that would be very nice - it’s nice to see that you respect your elders… [/offtopic]

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thats me :love:

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1. Age: 19
2. Nationality: Sri Lankan
3. Family cultural origin: Er… Sri Lankan? Most of my family is in Jaffna. Actually, I was the first one in my entire family history to be born outside Sri Lanka (born in Thailand).

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. A Building/Structure: Hmmm… I’ll say the entire city of Polonnaruwa. Never been to Sri Lanka, so I’ve only seen pictures, but the ancient architecture there looks amazing…
5. A Manufacturer: Don’t know of any.
6. A sports personality: Vidura Jayasooriya. Simply because he’s the only one I can think of right now. He plays cricket. I’m sure there are a lot of good tennis players coming out of there too though.
7. Food: Ooooh… everything. Well, everything not spicy. Okay, so that leaves… rice and dessert. Mmm… It’s a great place to go if you’re vegetarian, by the way. (Just maybe not if you’re on a diet… dessert…:drool: )
8. An event: Thai Pongal - by far, my favourite festival. Free dessert!
9. Item of Clothing: I’m going to say saris. And those really cool school uniforms they have. But especially saris. And half saris.

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1. Age: 20

2. Nationality: American

3. Family cultural origin: German, Irish

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. A Building/Structure: Statue of Liberty

5. A Manufacturer: not sure

6. A sports personality: not sure

7. Food: Fast food

8. An event: Independence Day

9. Item of Clothing: not sure

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1. Age: 22

2. Nationality: Danish

3. Family cultural origin: Danish

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?
Im in dounbt about this one - u mean from a turist p.o.v.? Or how i feel?
Since i dont identity myself by my nationality, ill go with the first one. So here is what I think they would write in a tourist-guide:

4. A Building/Structure: The little mermaid.

5. A Manufacturer: B&O (music electronics) - Novo Nordisk (medical)

6. A sports personality: Wilson Kipketer (800m wc).

7. Food: Rød grød med fløde (mashed strawberries with cream) - that meal is in the colors of our flag - red and white.

8. An event: Hmm…

9. Item of Clothing: Hmm… rain clothes seems suitable

hope u can use it

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guys just to say thanks for your help, i really appreciate it… hope you found out some interesting things reading through the thread too…

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1. Age: 39

2. Nationality: White

3. Family cultural origin: Norwegian

For the following criteria, what do you feel best reflects your national identity?

4. A Building/Structure: N/A

5. A Manufacturer: Sony

6. A sports personality: N/A

7. Food: Pizza

8. An event: N/A

9. Item of Clothing: Underwear

thanks! :P[/QUOTE]

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