If you could have chosen what country or what culture to be born into, what would it be?

That is a hard question.

Born and raised in the USA and think that has made me the person I am today so answer would just be a romantic sort of answer.

I might go for France, love the sound of the language and like their off beat and quirky ways.

Interesting question because this summer we are having a family reunion in Poland.

My father was born there and came to the US when he was 7 years old.

He rarely would ever talk about his early years in Poland, never wanted to teach us the language or talk about the "old homestead"

Found out they left a super tiny mountain village that today only has a population of 150 people.

I have cousins in the US , UK Canada, Australia, Ukraine, Poland ,Hungary and probably many other countries.

Don't think any of us would be more then simple farmers and such if our parents and grandparents didn't suffer and go through the trouble of trying to make a new life for themselves in another country.

Did research, the Nazi's made everyone move off their lands in 1939-1940, so if my father didn't leave in the 1920's who knows where we would of found ourselves.

These were not Jewish people but the Nazi's wanted their lands and were afraid this small group of people would go off with Russia so they stole their lands and moved them into cities around Poland.

My husband is a immigrant from Hungary and he thinks the US is one of the best places to live, at least it used to be.

He lived in Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Paris -France for over 1 year in each place and visited S. Africa and centeral America.

EDIT: Just saying, nothing wrong with being a farmer in a small village but not much room for growth.

Faith is a very confidential and private thing, between you and what you think, a large majority are born into a religion when you consider that it is part of their tradition, I mean some international locations are ran on their faith. Like Iran an Islamic state the legal guidelines of the land are through what's written in their Qu' ran. That's how the large majority are Muslim in that country, the consume sleep and breathe it, there is not any get away, so as to me, and no disrespect to Iranians they're type of brain washed...They've no longer been giving the liberty to decide upon yet another, they usually it seems that if they go away Islam the households disown them and switch there backs on them. That is claimed as culture, I say it's dictatorship at it is worse. Now, in some materials of Africa the culture is to circumcise females, and they also run there city village founded on the Qu'ran yet is say's nothing about girls being circumcised, so that's purley lack of information and once more no longer being in a position to opt for or research something but what they are told. Actual religion is some thing that you've got discovered your self no longer anything that has been shoved down your throat and compelled upon yourself and made to believe. So no God wont punnish any individual being so known as born within the unsuitable country, however what he did do is give you a brain to make a option and stand up to what you quite believe...

I am quite happy & satisfied with the choice of my grandparents to come to the USA. I have traveled to many other places in this world and have observed & studied a few other cultures. I feel fortunate that America provides an opportunity for success and that I live in this time period of history. I know that if I had been born & raised in other places on this earth during the 1940s, I might not have survived or have had my opportunities to be educated and employed. I like living right here.

Very interesting! I'm inclined to say Britain because a) I was born here and it's a pride thing and b) because I don't feel as though I know enough about other cultures to answer this question.

However, I've always had a thing for Spain.

We did chose where we were born. I chose the USA & a part of the country that has a lot of diversity even though there are areas of people who have the same culture.

The good old USA is where I was born and where I would have chosen. Thank you very much.

I'd like to have been born in America or Australia, somewhere warm and close to a beach! London is very cold and grey today, I am craving some sunshine!

France.

I am bias..born in the UK

England..what a history

wonderful countryside

if not...it would be America or Australia

I am so grateful to have been born in the USA.

I have thought perhaps we actually do choose.