What is the smallest country, by population, which you have met a person from? I knew a guy at University from Gibraltar (38k pop). He almost had a regular southern English accent but with a slight hint of something else that I only recognised as being Spanish when he told me where he came from. I also knew a guy from Man (85k pop), who just sounded regular Lancashire. And I knew a guy from Jersey (103k pop), who had a totally unremarkable middle class English accent. However he did have the cool claim to fame of being able to speak Jèrriais, the dialect of Norman French unique to that island. It's only spoken by a few thousand people, so it's quite likely I've never met anyone who spoke a rarer language than that. I've also met Faroese (55k) and Greenlandic (57k) people. The Faroese speak English like Icelanders but with somewhat flatter affect. They really, really, really like football. All these are obviously not true countries in the sense of being totally independent sovereign states. When it comes to that, I've met people from Dominica (72k), which I learned is pronounced with stress on the second 'i', and Tonga (100k). I received the hardest rugby tackle of my life from a Tongan. It turns out you really can see stars if you get hit hard enough, that's not just a cartoon thing. I have also met Icelanders (394k), Maldvians (515k), and a Western Saharan (surprisingly 601k). I suppose the way to win this game is to live in New Zealand, where it's not so unlikely at some point you bump into someone from one of the really small pacific nations.
What is the smallest country in the world you have met someone from? :
Anonymous :
11 days ago :
No.8621
One of my best friends when I was in middle school is Grenadian. Tall fat guy, very funny. He is a career line cook in Corpus Christi and addicted to videogames now.
Anonymous :
10 days ago :
No.8636
>>8638
>>8636
its crazy to me how many people end up as grown adults with crazily reactionary views on states and nationhood which are really just a childish fondness for 'neatness' that remains unexamined. As a seven year old it seems logical to you that borders should be made neater, as a grown up you find yourself supporting an Igbo ethnostate or Greater Hungary or something.
I knew people from the various US "territories" when I lived there: Guam, Mariana Island, USVI. Knew people from Navajo Nation and other reservations as well. I've been to Gibraltar, it's a funny place. Heard from a Youtuber that the local variety of mixed English-Spanish whatever dialect is dying out in favor of English or Castilian Spanish, not surprising but the video didn't contain more than a few seconds of non-English anyway. I didn't talk to anyone there, but my favorite place I've been is the American enclave Point Roberts. Had to plead to the border guard that I'm just a geography autist and not a drug or arms smuggler. The single grocery store accepts both US and Canadian currency, which is a very intriguing state of affairs if you know anything about Americans and how obstinate they are about accepting anything non-American, currency or language or otherwise.
My inner child autist loves these geographic leftovers even though as an adult I know that countries and borders are fake and gay abstractions-- and that geography in that sense has already calcified and is a product of a bygone era, sadly, not withstanding the last corners of the developing world like South Sudan or Bougainville or whatnot. I guess we're effectively post-political geography now, except for the fags at Google Maps having to debate if Donbas is labeled as Ukrainian or Russian. A century ago the entire continent would have been aflame because of that shifting line on the map, now it's a technological-clerical debate point.
>>8636
I knew people from the various US "territories" when I lived there: Guam, Mariana Island, USVI. Knew people from Navajo Nation and other reservations as well. I've been to Gibraltar, it's a funny place. Heard from a Youtuber that the local variety of mixed English-Spanish whatever dialect is dying out in favor of English or Castilian Spanish, not surprising but the video didn't contain more than a few seconds of non-English anyway. I didn't talk to anyone there, but my favorite place I've been is the American enclave Point Roberts. Had to plead to the border guard that I'm just a geography autist and not a drug or arms smuggler. The single grocery store accepts both US and Canadian currency, which is a very intriguing state of affairs if you know anything about Americans and how obstinate they are about accepting anything non-American, currency or language or otherwise.
My inner child autist loves these geographic leftovers even though as an adult I know that countries and borders are fake and gay abstractions-- and that geography in that sense has already calcified and is a product of a bygone era, sadly, not withstanding the last corners of the developing world like South Sudan or Bougainville or whatnot. I guess we're effectively post-political geography now, except for the fags at Google Maps having to debate if Donbas is labeled as Ukrainian or Russian. A century ago the entire continent would have been aflame because of that shifting line on the map, now it's a technological-clerical debate point.
its crazy to me how many people end up as grown adults with crazily reactionary views on states and nationhood which are really just a childish fondness for 'neatness' that remains unexamined. As a seven year old it seems logical to you that borders should be made neater, as a grown up you find yourself supporting an Igbo ethnostate or Greater Hungary or something.
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.8728
>>8729
>>8728
probably a bit of a sensitive subject but did they mention anything about how the country made enough money off guano mining for everyone to be a multi millionaire but then they blew it all and now they're back to living on handouts from the aussies in return for hosting their immigrant gulag
I had dinner with someone from Nauru (pop 12k) once through a mutual friend. We talked a good deal about the climate change facing their country and how a lot of people from there go abroad for economic opportunity nevermind the island disappearing.
>>8728
I had dinner with someone from Nauru (pop 12k) once through a mutual friend. We talked a good deal about the climate change facing their country and how a lot of people from there go abroad for economic opportunity nevermind the island disappearing.
probably a bit of a sensitive subject but did they mention anything about how the country made enough money off guano mining for everyone to be a multi millionaire but then they blew it all and now they're back to living on handouts from the aussies in return for hosting their immigrant gulag