How many different nationalities have you met....

Interesting topic, and I mirror others here so won't bore everyone with duplicating the lists. Bet you all have met Bangladeshis as well, as they have spread across the world, as have Cambodians to a lesser extent.

On an aside the 6 degrees of separation theory may well be worth discussing. I have a number of people I know well who have met Betty Windsor (some would have seen her often), and she has met many world leaders over seven decades so that alone gets my first two degrees well spread.

Daryl wrote:Interesting topic, and I mirror others here so won't bore everyone with duplicating the lists. Bet you all have met Bangladeshis as well, as they have spread across the world, as have Cambodians to a lesser extent.

Bangladeshi not at all that i know of actually, and Cambodians only in passing i think.

Daryl wrote:On an aside the 6 degrees of separation theory may well be worth discussing. I have a number of people I know well who have met Betty Windsor (some would have seen her often), and she has met many world leaders over seven decades so that alone gets my first two degrees well spread.

Yeah, it´s actually amazing once you start thinking about it, just how far and wide you get with just a few degrees of separation.

Daryl wrote:Interesting topic, and I mirror others here so won't bore everyone with duplicating the lists. Bet you all have met Bangladeshis as well, as they have spread across the world, as have Cambodians to a lesser extent.

Now that you mentioned it, yep, I've worked with a few Bangladeshis over the years as well. No Cambodians that I'm aware of, but I was speaking with one of my colleagues and she reminded me that we've also had a couple of Nepalese at the store as well, a father and daughter.

As for meeting any Royals, the closest I've come is seeing the Queen Mothers car when she came to Aberdeen to open the Piper Alpha Memorial at Hazlehead Park. One of my former co-workers lost her first husband in that disaster.

Mike.

Damn, Even as a kiwi, all the way at the edge of the world, just thinking about it gives me a very decent list....


Family members
New Zealanders (of course.... )
English
Scottish
Irish
Welsh
French
Italian
Japanese ( informally adopted)

Those I know

German
austrian
Dutch
South african
Pakistan
thailand
taiwan
china
filipino
australian
Rusiian
Vietnamese
Norway
Finland
canadian
Iraq
India
Singapore


And those are just the ones i definitely know the nationality of. probably at least a few more to bump that 26 to 30+.....

I incorrectly took the thread to mean actually spending a significant amount of time with. I've been introduced to so many more.

Every year for about seven straight years I attended the International Furniture Market in High Point, NC. It is the largest Furniture Market in the World. Twice a year buyers from around the world descend on that little town with reckless abandon. Money falls from the sky. College students and locals in the area also descend on the week long market. Except for the menial jobs where employment begins a week prior to a week after -- a three week whirlwind. You can make the high end of 1-5k a day as a menial worker. One of my sisters translates for a company at a rate of 500hr. 10 - 15 hr. days for 7-10 days.

The International Home Furnishings building (IFC) has more flags flying than the UN. It hosts buyers from countries so remote you've never heard of them.

So, I've been introduced to many different nationalities, briefly. All business suits, skirts and dresses. Beautiful exotic women from remote corners of the globe, all there to examine and buy high end furniture. The only reason my sister works it is she gets to claim whatever furniture she likes afterwards. Companies ship over one sample piece of each. Companies don't wish to ship the furniture all the way back to their country. Too costly. By market's end, they've made their fortune in sales anyways. It's only open to commercial buyers making hundreds of orders for specific pieces.

Twice a year this happens. Luckily I remembered this after talking to a friend that lives there.

I wanted to inquire if anyone else has found themselves in a pool of dozens of languages being spoken simultaneously? It begins to feel like a melodiously related song -- blending in with each other.