Originally posted by Ebonbuddha
One of many idiotic rumours about me has resurfaced here in Korea. Yes, I have quite a few. Anyway, if I say I like Canada or that my home is Canada I always get, ¡°You aren¡¯t Canadian¡±.
I get things like that said to me a lot. By other people\'s definitions I apparently don\'t \"belong\" anywhere. I was born in Canada to Canadian parents. I lived there until I was a teenager, when I moved to Wales. I\'ve lived on and off in Wales, since I moved here as a teenager. I have a British passport and can hold a Canadian one.
I went back to Canada on holiday and no one I met could believe I had ever lived in Canada. Your accent is all wrong for a Canadian, and you\'ve lived too long in another country!
In the UK I live in Wales, but as I wasn\'t here for long enough in the schools here to learn Welsh, I don\'t know any. Lots of people here think of me as Canadian, even though my accent is long gone.
I don\'t really care I think both countries are great. It\'s a bit sad maybe but I always put up the Canadian flag (in side the house!) on Canada Day and cook something good and have a beer. The Winter Olympics are great and I am glued to the TV trying to watch every single ice hockey game that Canada play. I\'m still a Canadian at heart a bit, and still am by law and birth.
At the same time Wales is my home and I think it\'s great. My girlfriend is Welsh and I think her accent is awesome, and it\'s fun listening to her speaking Welsh. I doubt I will ever leave here, I think it\'s a great country and I\'m a citizen here, and proud of it (same as I am of Canada).
I think you pretty much are whatever you want to be Ebon!
