# Other Nationalities **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912 "2016-02-23T21:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/41 "2016-02-26T05:00:55Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I live and work in a very rural area of western Pennsylvania. > > I rarely see anyone who isn’t white, let alone someone from another country. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Are you absolutely certain there’s not a large number of Canadian placed there strategically, waiting to rise up once the Big Invasion commences? Just in case there are, I’m heavily armed and positioned to cover all critical approaches to **Kayaker** from the South and rush to his assistance if needed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/42 "2016-02-26T08:16:39Z")
I live in east London and often travel into the centre, so pretty well all the time. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/43 "2016-02-26T08:57:16Z")
Every day including my wife. I work for a massive Chinese company managing Microsoft, which has a huge amount of non Americans, and live in a suburb where the elementary school had 50+ languages spoken natively. On a business trip to Korea and Hong Kong this week, so it’s pretty rare when I’m in contact with an American. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/44 "2016-02-26T09:16:27Z")
Married to a Taiwanese, we’ve lived here for three years and seven years together in Tokyo before that. I was with my Japanese ex since '88 and lived in Japan from '90. Most businesses trips back to the States or to other countries were with colleagues and most vacations were with either my current or former wife. In 28 years there may have been 40 to 50 days total that I didn’t meet a foreigner. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/45 "2016-02-26T09:34:00Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Every day including my wife. I work for a massive Chinese company managing Microsoft, which has a huge amount of non Americans, and live in a suburb where the elementary school had 50+ languages spoken natively. Maybe I’m not parsing this correctly, but why does Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, need to be managed by a massive Chinese company? ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/46 "2016-02-26T12:00:49Z")
Depending on the time of the year: 0-10. Foreign students attending my school for one term or two, mainly. They come from all over the place but we seem to attract a lot of students from South America and Eastern Europe. A few Chinese, too. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/47 "2016-02-26T12:03:47Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Just in case there are, I’m heavily armed and positioned to cover all critical approaches to **Kayaker** from the South and rush to his assistance if needed. 😃 Actually, a polite Canuck would stand out like a sore thumb around here.😛 ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/48 "2016-02-26T12:11:21Z")
I speak both English and French and I use them more than my own language because I meet people from all over the Western and Eastern hemispheres on a daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/49 "2016-02-26T12:59:16Z")
Lots. Probably 50% of my office, 50% of service workers I encounter, and maybe 20% of the general population. My immediate team at work has people from 5 different countries. My husband and his family are also from another country. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/50 "2016-02-26T20:49:27Z")
Just in my office of like six people there is someone from England, China, Poland and one other place I can’t recall. I just interviewed someone from India today, but I don’t think I’m going to hire her. I’ll be sad when Trump is President and I’m the only one here. ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912/51 "2016-02-26T23:16:22Z")
I live in Phoenix. It would be a weird day when I left the house and failed to encounter someone who wasn’t from another country. At least half the customer service people I see in any given day, for example. Aside from that, my mother was born in another country and I speak with her at least every other day, although I see her in person much less frequently since she lives about 3 hours away. There are also at least two people working in my office that I deal with daily (or near daily) who were born in another country, as well. For the record, I’m assuming “meet” in the “encounter and/or engage with” sense, as opposed to in the “become acquainted with for the first time” sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-nationalities/746912.md?page=2)