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When I ask this kind of question, most of the time my intention is usually referring to "where you are living atm" (If I could change my voting I would-wrong voting choice again). If I wanted to know where are they from from, I'll be more specific like "where were you born/where you lived as a child" that type of thing. I'm kind of annoyed when people ask me "Where I'm from" and I'll say I'm from Minneapolis. Then they'll say, "oh I meant where are your parents from". Could have said that instead.
When I ask this kind of question, most of the time my intention is usually referring to "where you are living atm" (If I could change my voting I would-wrong voting choice again). If I wanted to know where are they from from, I'll be more specific like "where were you born/where you lived as a child" that type of thing. I'm kind of annoyed when people ask me "Where I'm from" and I'll say I'm from Minneapolis. Then they'll say, "oh I meant where are your parents from". Could have said that instead.
The issue of where one's parents are from can also be complicated if one didn't grow up with one or both biological parent/s (especially if one grew up with from a young age with a step-parent or was adopted).
Not to mention that many people have parents from different places.
If I ask someone where they're from I also mean "where are you living right now," otherwise I'll say "where are you from originally," and they can interpret "originally" however they want.
It honestly is your adolescent and teen years which is age 10-18.
Prime example is Ludacris (rapper for those that don't know). He was born in Illinois and acknowledges that from time to time. But around the age of 11 or 12, he moved to Atlanta and that's what he claims.
I totally agree with this, as I mentioned in an earlier post. Where you are "from" depends on when you become of age, when you realize who you are, and that is ages 10-18, as I said earlier, and repeated by this poster. The best answers to this question are "Well, I was born in ___, but I grew up in ___. The place where you "grew up" is far more important than where you were born.
Born in the Midwest, raised in the South. Even though the South has been "home" for me for most of my life and my place of legal residency, I can't help but identify more strongly with where I came into the world and where most of my extended family resides. The Midwestern accent with which I speak was retained all through childhood despite being surrounded by Southern linguistic influences.
Personally, I would find it difficult to accept the notion that someone is a true Texan if they were born in the Northeast for instance, no matter how convincing their affected Texas accent may be (eg, GWBush).
George W. Bush lived the vast majority of his life in Texas. He talks with a real Texas accent. He's from Texas. Where you lived as a BABY has little to no influence on how you speak. Pres. Bush is Texan.
Personally, I would find it difficult to accept the notion that someone is a true Texan if they were born in the Northeast for instance, no matter how convincing their affected Texas accent may be (eg, GWBush).
I'd personally have to disagree. I was born in NYC and lived there till I was 3, I even live there now for college, but I consider myself a true Floridian. Even if I went out of either state, I'd still say I was from Florida, although living in New York.
George W. Bush lived the vast majority of his life in Texas. He talks with a real Texas accent. He's from Texas. Where you lived as a BABY has little to no influence on how you speak. Pres. Bush is Texan.
His dad is from Connecticut. He's from Connecticut. He's not a native Texan. I'm not a native Texan either, even though I lived here since I was a toddler. My mother was born and raised in the Midwest. My aunts and uncles are from the Midwest. My grandparents are from the Midwest. My cousins are from the Midwest. I was born in the Midwest and visited often while growing up. I am a Midwesterner. I naturally inherited my Mother's Midwestern accent as she was the one who taught me to speak.
I'd personally have to disagree. I was born in NYC and lived there till I was 3, I even live there now for college, but I consider myself a true Floridian. Even if I went out of either state, I'd still say I was from Florida, although living in New York.
You're a transplant by virtue of your parents, not a native Floridian.
He's not a transplant. Transplants are people who move to places in their 30s for jobs or retire in a place for the warm sunshine, and then complain about how much their new locations suck. Someone who grows up in a place isn't a transplant.
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