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You are NOT British.
One of my 'good' friend's from school has a father who has been serving in the military before she born. My friend has always made it clear, talking about it on a daily basis, that she was born somewhere in England. I am to believe that it was most likely on a miltary base. With this in mind, she insists on the fact that she is British. I will note that she didn't even live there for six months. (She might be British due to her birth place. But at the same time she is American as she was born on a military base. Not sure how it works. )
- She claims to have a British accent, when she does not. No one in her family does, for that matter. - She claims that she remembers eating when she lived near. One, she would of not been old enough to handle those two foods. Two, I like fries and mayo too! There's more things. Like how she can supposely speak Chinese, but when we ask her to teach us words she refuses. Or how her family is poor, but they can afford the latest video games system, flat screen TVs, etc. Discuss: My friend. Fries w/ mayo. Liars. |
Re: You are NOT British.
BLS. Bad Liar Syndrome, or perhaps they're memories from a past life :O
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I consider myself Taiwanese/ Kiwi now. Have lived in Taiwan for 4 years...and spent my childhood in New Zealand. I'm not in anyway asian to look at but I have absorbed the culture quite nicely and even eat like an asian!
As for your friend, people cling to things that make them different as they associate "different" with "special". She was born there so she has the right to claim she is British by birth, but growing up in another country makes you more half and half. |
;o i like french Frys xD But I eat them with ranch dressing... now i'm hungry T_T
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It sounds like your friend is desperate to identify herself as 'special'. If she has grown up a military brat there is a good chance she's never really spent a lot of time in any one place - and it's hard to make friends when you're moving so much. I guess this is her way of trying to make herself stand out.
I love dipping my fries in mayo - it's yummy - sometimes I'll mix mayo and ketchup together to make a kind of fry sauce. :) |
I agree with Sia...some people want really badly to identify with one place, especially when they've moved around a lot...having lived as many places as I'm sure she has, why would she want to waste all that travel by calling herself American?
On the other hand, if she didn't sound like such a blatant lier (ie accent), I might say that maybe she'd experienced some ill will towards Americans in various places and didn't want to be associated as such. On the other other hand, I had some terrifying experiences with mayo as a child. |
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Wait, wouldn't she also be an American citizen as she was born in a military base? Or at least had dual citizenship due to her parents? |
Aww, let your friend be British if she wants to be.
I don't get why others feel the need to tell people where they're from instead of leaving it to them. I had a Sri Lankan guy in middle school insist that I was Sri Lankan, just because my parents were both born in Sri Lanka. I'd never even been to Sri Lanka when I knew this guy, but he still felt it necessary to go on about the fact that I couldn't be English and had to be Sri Lankan :roll: |
I've often wondered about the nationality of children born i one county then moving to another shortley afterwards. My farther and i had a convosation about it once and i said, 'Say a pregnant British woman was on a ship, and it came into dock at Norway. The baby came early. Would it be British or Norwiegan?'
He says it would be Norwiegan, and i agree. So i can see how your friend would think she is British. For the rest of the things though i agree with Siaasgn...i think she just wants to be reconised as different. |
I have friends that lie for attention. Who doesn't, their only difference is they do it better, so they do it more often. I usually just smile and nod, but sometimes I'm like "...eh?" Some of the lies are terrible ex:
Friend: "Yeah when I was 11 I was raped! But they sent me my virginity back!" Me: "What did they do? Put it in a box, gift wrap it, and send it to your house?!" Or: Friend: "Yeah, I'm liked by the two most popular guys at school!" Me: "Then why did you ask out that guy at summer camp yesterday?" This particular friend was from summer camp, as far as I know she still is dating the boy from summer camp. She's a tad odd. I haven't talked to her in a month or so. I don't really care either. |
Lol, there's this girl that lied about her not being a virgin. She said that she went through four different boyfriends in grade eight and had sex with one of them. Since I was not at her school, I can not confirm but her friend said that she didn't have sex.
She gave like different versions to everyone about her losing her virginity. One was at a hotel, one was at her house, and another was at a school over night trip. =.= If you plan to lie, stick to one story man! Really, I don't understand why anyone would run around telling that she's not a virgin anymore. Most people lie because they don't want others to know that they lost their virginity but this girl lied that she did. D: >> |
Bah, I know that tale. I went to middle school with a girl who I'm sure has something wrong with her. She'd make up outrageous lies to make her things and situations special, or to get attention, and if she didn't get attention, she'd throw things around and act like a 2 year old.
It was disgusting, she was always telling us about how her parents beat her, but she'd always say that she 'healed fast' so all her bruises were gone. Or one day she came in with a headache, said she was hit with a frying pan the previous day and that it now had her head implant on it. She'd tell anyone who would listen anything she could come up with. After a while some of the stories really started to contradict each other. .__. |
Im a military brat [army]. Ehh just let her believe what she wants to *shrugs*
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