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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo is Mo Farah a Brit or a Somalian?
Ask those BREXIT folks for me.
Congrats Mohammed 10,000 again!!!! Don't tell Don the Con your full name (or Peter King)
Mister Ed
(5,930 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)but emigrated to Great Britain as a kid. He now represents Britain in international track events. I think the point of the OP is that Brits are cheering his gold medal in the 10,000 meter race, but voted for Brexit largely because of so many immigrants in the country.
Mister Ed
(5,930 posts)malaise
(268,979 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Maybe he could choose to be half Brit, and that'd free the other half up to be Somalian if he chose.
Btw, hope the flooding isn't causing trouble for you and yours.
malaise
(268,979 posts)I was only exposing the hypocrisy and double standards on our planet.
We're expecting more rain today - we'll be fine but if the rain continues some of the unstable squatter homes in the hills will feel the wrath of nature.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)having people in both places eager to claim him, even if some of his competitors are splitting nationalist hairs. Oh, well. Overt nationalism turns me off, so the Olympics are definitely a mixed bag for me, trying to focus on the individual dreams, but the refugee team had me blinking back tears.
Is that the "hills parishes"? Glad to hear your area's doing fine. Our vacation home (a 50-year-old MH) in Florida is on a marsh where the Floridian aquifer comes to the surface in a large bowl bounded on 2 sides by river and higher ground on the others. People think we couldn't end up submerged in a giant lake because it's never happened, and I know it could. Just need some heavy rains on saturated soils combined with hurricane surge keeping the river from flowing out, or even flowing backward. That's why we went for an ancient MH with no real value. Our version of "preparedness" was nailing an old wooden ladder in the shed to the side of one of the porches. From the roof, if need be, we could climb into the old live oak that arches over.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)or American? Is Jennifer Granholm Canadian or American?
Do you identify people by where they where born or where they grew up or where they live or all the above?
malaise
(268,979 posts)voted for BREXIT?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)malaise
(268,979 posts)I'll wait at the finish line
Dr. Strange
(25,920 posts)Don't blink, or you'll miss him.
malaise
(268,979 posts)He's Jamaican
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)malaise
(268,979 posts)are celebrating his gold??
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Partly because they will feel that by doing so they're proving that they're not racists.