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Which foreign country or culture do you feel most drawn toward?

Posted on Oct 18th, 2008 by Mikey_Dee : A hoot and The frumious Bandersnatc Mikey_Dee
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 18, 2008:

Well, maybe I'm just being difficult but I need a clear definition of "a foreign country" . Is it a country other than the one I was born in? or is it a country other than the one I'm living in? Or is it a Country outside the US of A?

I am drawn towards India, Spain, Several South American Countries, Are they foreign? Not to the people living there or born there?

Am I just being cantankerous again? It's been known to happen, but I feel this question has built-in Shady zones

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Jeff : messenger
6 minutes later
Jeff said

I understand your “cantankerousness” especially in and or a site of spiritual minded people who may hold the thought that we are One… there are no foreign countries, or cultures, just countries and cultures you are not part of or living in..
More and more I think India, is a place and culture I would like to be immersed in. In the same light Tibet… 
I am Love, jeff

about 1 hour later
flowerchildatheart said

Right-on Mike.

:)

Nicole : wakingdreamer
about 7 hours later
Nicole said

thank you Mike! There should be no foreign country here, where we all meet - at home - wherever we are.

Jaguar Peaceful Warrior : Blissful Freedom Faerie
about 10 hours later
Jaguar Peaceful Warrior said

yes, you are right, all of you….BUT have you heard us all talk…..lolol…..goodness knows what Mike's accent is….such a mix of the Irish and Parisienne…..and me, well, what can I say …. gudaymateowzachooks…that is hello, how are you, in Strine (Australian)..lololol. We are all one yet some of us are bloody hard to decipher at times so I am told…lolololol.

cantankerousness…now there is a word that I don't hear every day…

hugs everybody…I am taking my bod to the gym…..adios.

Mikey_Dee : A hoot and The frumious Bandersnatc
about 13 hours later
Mikey_Dee said

I would love to go to Mars and or Jupiter and maybe stop off at syrius, now they are foreign places, if not countries

 Meenakshi : Connection
about 16 hours later
Meenakshi said

An Indian came back from England and asked his wife: “Am I a foreigner?”
“No!”, she said, startled, “you're not.”

“Then why did people keep asking me in England if I was a foreigner?” he asked exasperatedly….We laugh; but our Mikey-mind says: exactly!!!
 
Have you read:”How to be an alien” by George Mikes?  Luckily I have found it online so I can show you which words are just amazingly funny:
“I believe, without undue modesty, that I have certain qualifications to write on “how to be an alien.” I am an alien myself. What is more, I have been an alien all my life. Only during the first 26 years of my life was I not aware of this plain fact. I was living in my own country, a country full of aliens, and I noticed nothing particular or irregular about myself; then I came to England, and you can imagine my painful surprise.”
Some years ago I spent a lot of time with a young lady who was very proud and conscious of being English. Once she asked me - to my great surprise - whether I would marry her. “No,” I replied, “I will not. My mother would never agree to my marrying a foreigner.” She looked at me a little surprised and irritated, and retorted: “I, a foreigner? What a silly thing to say. I am English. You are the foreigner. And your mother, too.” I did not give in. “In Budapest, too?” I asked her. “Everywhere,” she declared with determination. “Truth does not depend on geography. What is true in England is also true in Hungary and in North Borneo and Venezuela and everywhere.”

Nicole : wakingdreamer
about 24 hours later
Nicole said

Meenakshi, that is fantasticly screamingly perfect! many thanks, dear one.

Mikey_Dee : A hoot and The frumious Bandersnatc
4 days later
Mikey_Dee said

Yes Meenakshi strikes ( a match to light) our way again, pretty smart for a foreigner, or maybe she's a legal alien by now?!
I'll have to check

Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator
5 days later
Siona said

I meant 'foreign country' to mean any country that you (the answerer of the question) didn't identify with, or any culture that you don't already feel at home in. For some the US is a foreign country; for some Canada; for some Zimbabwe. It all depends on who is replying. :)

Mikey_Dee : A hoot and The frumious Bandersnatc
5 days later
Mikey_Dee said

Of course Siona, but that should have been clarified at the outset. I read some answers which said “my own country” which means it didn't appear clear to us all, and I feel it is important to avoid this sort of qui pro quo, if possible
:-)

Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator
5 days later
Siona said

that should have been clarified at the outset.

Well, I like leaving these questions open to interpretation, myself. After all, I was born in the US but there are times that I feel like a foreigner to the culture here, and I'd love to leave the possibility to respond in this fashion. Besides, it's always fascinating to me to see how we each choose to 'read' the questions differently. I think there's space enough for all forms. :)

 Meenakshi : Connection
6 days later
Meenakshi said

Mikey, really :”Am I just being cantankerous again? It's been known to happen, but I feel this question has built-in Shady zones”
Well,  we all have our cantankerous moments….

AS to legal alien; yes, I am that; as long as no one realizes I'm actually an outaspace alien, I'm fine!!
now what does this mikey space do to my normally propah self?

I met three children today with two legs between them and their other stumps had running springs attached playing kick ball.  it came to me how little or large I have a choice to show up as; how I can fiddle-dee-deeee and trip over little stuff in life or show up as a peace warrior…….namaste

Mikey_Dee : A hoot and The frumious Bandersnatc
6 days later
Mikey_Dee said

Well All, I am pleased to see, read /hear all your wise & insightful comments- legal and/or outaspace Aliens- have any of you found out the difference between alienation an an Alien Nation? The difference is a space and an N
So I take this as proof that there is/are Alien Nation in space

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