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    <title><![CDATA[Comments on: Getting Nationalities Straight]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular notions, no, we're not all Americans.  The nationality guessing game: favorite exchange of bored cabbies and their captive audience passengers.  Expressing nationality in Mandarin Chinese is not hard--unless you are Azerbaijani, Djiboutian, or hail from the Republic of Vanuatu, and even then a bit of research and transliteration gymnastics will do the trick.  Listen to this podcast and learn how to reclaim your identity.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-03-14 18:00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: bazza]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69811]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Love my new connection, just downloaded all 3 parts to this lesson in under 30 seconds. :)]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Love my new connection, just downloaded all 3 parts to this lesson in under 30 seconds. :)]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: daxiong]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69818]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[My wife had a cabbie in Beijing convinced I was from Xinjiang--a Canadian with a British family heritage.  I thought it was quite funny.
我是加拿大人！]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[My wife had a cabbie in Beijing convinced I was from Xinjiang--a Canadian with a British family heritage.  I thought it was quite funny.
我是加拿大人！]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: sebire]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In India, I have had several guesses at my nationality, including South-East Asian, Spanish and Chinese.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[In India, I have had several guesses at my nationality, including South-East Asian, Spanish and Chinese.]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: biyanuren]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69840]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just love these lessons...
我是比利时人!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Just love these lessons...
我是比利时人!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: boringhistorygirl]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69841]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[i once had a women at the checkout at a 人人乐supermarket in xi'an (god bless ren ren le) try to convince me that i was 美国人,and that she couldn't accept my money.  i'm not sure why, 我是 澳大利亚人, and i was holding a 10 yuan note out to her at the time!!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[i once had a women at the checkout at a 人人乐supermarket in xi'an (god bless ren ren le) try to convince me that i was 美国人,and that she couldn't accept my money.  i'm not sure why, 我是 澳大利亚人, and i was holding a 10 yuan note out to her at the time!!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Local people sometimes
mistake me for a 南方人 just 
because I speak clumsy Mandarin!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Local people sometimes
mistake me for a 南方人 just 
because I speak clumsy Mandarin!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: user22333]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69859]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[So Ken, where are YOU from after all that?]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[So Ken, where are YOU from after all that?]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: bazza]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Am I correct in thinking 英国 [yīng guó] is the equivalent of the UK and 英格兰 [yīng gé lán] is just England without Scotland, Wales etc?]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Am I correct in thinking 英国 [yīng guó] is the equivalent of the UK and 英格兰 [yīng gé lán] is just England without Scotland, Wales etc?]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
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        <author><![CDATA[changye]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are right, and 
the two of them both in
English and Chinese are 
often used interchangeably.
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[You are right, and 
the two of them both in
English and Chinese are 
often used interchangeably.
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        <title><![CDATA[By: rsmith91]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/getting-nationalities-straight/discussion#comment-69869]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here's Scotland: sūgélán

and Wales: wēi'ěrshì

Sorry, I can't do characters yet!

user22333: Ken is from ài'ěrlán (that's Ireland).]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's Scotland: sūgélán

and Wales: wēi'ěrshì

Sorry, I can't do characters yet!

user22333: Ken is from ài'ěrlán (that's Ireland).]]></content:encoded>
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