Other Nationalities

“from Quebec” isn’t a nationality.

I live in Chicago, where I work in an immigration law practice. So, well, pretty frequently :smiley:

Let’s see. I’m American. My best friend is Indian. My next-door neighbors are Hmong. I work from home (at the moment) so I can’t tell where most of my coworkers are from but the one of them is living and working in Gdansk. My ex is a Brit and I am still in regular contact with him and his daughter. My godson is Canadian. Yep. Pretty frequently.

I work at home mostly so if I don’t go out I don’t meet anyone from another country. I only have to go up to the local mini-mart where the manager is from somewhere else. If I go into the office just there I’ll see ten or more people on any day, many more than that on some days. Out on the streets in Boston and Cambridge I could pass by a hundred people or more from another country in just a few minutes.

Every day without fail. My flatmates are from India, Jordan, Scotland and Syria. My workmates are from Lebanon, Philippines, Egypt and Jordan. The building where I work is right next to Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and the place and its surroundings is usually brimming with tourists.

At the building where I live there are at least 20 different nationalities.

At the library I work with mostly white Americans, however, there is one Russian, one Colombian, one Chinese, one Mexican, an Argentinian security guard and one Peruvian - me. My city is not very ethnically diverse. Today I was at Oregon State University, and I commented that this is the one place near home where there are people (mostly international students) from all over. Most are from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

I live in a small town of about 10,000. An exurb of Cleveland. But whenever I go to the local rec center to swim (3x a week) I regularly am in the locker room with a woman and her mother speaking Russian. There’s often a Chinese couple at the pool too.

When I was using the weight room more, there were some Filipino guys there (twins) but I know them, they are second-generation. There’s also a Sikh family I see every so often but I’m pretty sure the kids are second-generation too.

To be honest, considering the size of my town, the amount I go out (I work from home) and the absolute whiteness of the area, I am pleased as punch that I run in to so many different cultures here!

I live in suburban Chicago, and work at an ad agency in the city. On a daily basis, I’m encountering co-workers who are from New Zealand, the Philippines, and various Latin American countries, plus a security guard who’s from Poland.

If I go to pretty much any fast-food restaurant in the area, I’m nearly guaranteed to encounter multiple people from Latin America.

My running partner is from Ireland; I talk with her on a nearly-daily basis, and I see her (and her husband, who’s from England) at least once a week.

The pastor of my church is from Kenya; I see her most weeks.

And, this doesn’t count close friends whom I know from playing MMORPGs, and with whom I converse online on a regular basis (I’ve met a number of them face-to-face, but that’s infrequent). Several of them are from Canada, as well as one from Ireland, and another from Australia.

Whilst I am a long-time out of high school, my previous HS had 27 separate nationalities represented in the student population.

I’ve mostly lived in Melbourne, Australia, which is considered one of the multicultural centres of the western world.

Nowadays I work from home, in a regional town which is not renowned for it’s ethnic diversity…but every day I speak to people from all corners of the world.

Does that count?? :stuck_out_tongue:

Every day at work I am guaranteed to rub shoulders with people from at least 30 different countries (that is what comes with working in a large international organization).

Also, I am Spanish but I live in the Netherlands, so I technically meet myself all day, every day… :slight_smile:

Do you mean “meet” like “be introduced to for the first time” or like “come into contact with”?

I work every day with people from India, Ukraine, Russia, China, Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan, somewhere in the West Indies; I’m probably leaving somebody out. And this is a company with only 50 employees. My wife is from Egypt. My teenage son has friends from Malaysia, Korea, Lebanon, South Africa that I see every week. The Starbucks barista is from Thailand. And I’m sure that a large percentage of people that I talk to in my routine day are immigrants, due their accents. The DC metro area is very cosmopolitan.

it varies from week to week, I work in the moving industry so I meet a lot of people from all over the world

Quite a few on most days. Starting with my Thai wife, whom I wake up next to.

Or am I the one from another country, and she meets me? I can never keep that straight.

I’m from another country (than the US), and I usually look in a mirror every day. :slight_smile: As far as I can recall, nobody I interact with in person on a regular basis other than my mother and stepfather are from another country, though.

Well, that depends on how militant the Quebecois you are asking are. :wink:

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.

Lots of folks at work (Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, a few others) and I live near Harvard so I overhear conversations in all sorts of languages any time I’m out and about.

What’s the OP’s idea of “meet”?

When I’m out and about in my neighborhood I will *encounter *people from all over the world. It’s common to hear Russian, Quebecois, Haitian Creole, umpteen dialects of Spanish, & Brazilian Portuguese and some Indian or Pakistani languages I can’t identify. All found in the same grocery store, and at least three in a single visit. Plus US northeast, US west coast, and US deep south English. And some English Canadians, eh? Always with the Canadians around here.

But I don’t *meet *very many of those folks. I don’t know their names, etc. I walk by and hear them talking. They hear me talking. But interacting is rare beyond basic “excuse me”, “you’re next”, etc. politeness.

At work I *interact *with lots of immigrants to the US. And *encounter *many foreign visitors. But I interact with different coworkers every workday & seldom see somebody familiar from one workday to the next. It’s a very anonymous worklife.

About the only foreigners I really meet are the ones here on the 'Dope. I know a heck of a lot more about those fine folks than I do about the real live ones I encounter out IRL. For me at least, it’s one of the really magic things about this group. We’re from all over, living & working all sorts of different lives both great and humble. And we all get together to yak about stuff also both great and humble.

Bienvenidos und Wilkommen Y’all!! :smiley:

Are you absolutely certain there’s not a large number of Canadian placed there strategically, waiting to rise up once the Big Invasion commences?

Every day.

The company I work for is a multi-national, so my coworkers are from India, China, Hong Kong, Nepal, South Africa, various European countries, the UK…As a bonus, we have *fabulous *covered-dish events. And I now have a passion for momos(Nepalese meat dumplings with a lovely sauce…mmmm).

Up until a few years ago, I worked in downtown Denver and usually spent my lunch hour on the 16th Street mall. It’s a well-visited tourist destination, so there were always visits from all over the world out and about. Quite often someone would be asking a question or asking for directions, help, etc. I speak several languages and would occasionally offer my services if I knew the language. So at least 3-4 times a week I’d encounter someone on the mall.

I also worked for an international company with facilities in 17 countries so it was common to have visitors from other company facilities in our offices. New young STEM rising stars would often be sent to several countries on a rotational basis, so we were always getting rotationals every few weeks. So say another 1 per week at work.