Where Do You Come From?

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LOL Australia FTW! We also have crocs if you wanna meet them, and quokkas as well (Minature wallabies, you can only find them at Rottnest Island, which is on the Western side of Australia.) BTW, which city are you from, Mel?
 

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I'm from Nice, France :)
 

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Well a little about Mexico:
Traditionally, the Mexican government has sought to maintain its interests abroad and project its influence largely through moral persuasion rather than through political or economical pressure.

Since the Mexican Revolution, and until the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico had been known for its foreign policy or "doctrine" known as the Doctrina Estrada (Estrada Doctrine, named after its creator Genaro Estrada). The Doctrina Estrada was a foreign policy guideline of an enclosed view of sovereignty. It claimed that foreign governments should not judge, positively or negatively, the governments or changes in government of other nations, in that such action would imply a breach to its sovereignty. This policy was said to be based on the principles of Non-Intervention, Pacific Solution to Controversies, and Self-Determination of all nations.

During his Presidency, Vicente Fox appointed Jorge Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Castañeda immediately broke with the Estrada Doctrine, promoting what was called by critics the Castañeda Doctrine. The new foreign policy called for an openness and an acceptance of criticism from the international community, and the increase of Mexican involvement in Foreign Affairs.

In line with this new openness in Mexico's foreign policy, some political parties have proposed an amendment of the Constitution in order to allow the Mexican Army, Air Force or Navy to collaborate with the United Nations in peace-keeping missions, or to provide military help to countries that officially ask for it.


Military

Mexican troops in Mexico City.Main articles: Military of Mexico, Mexican Army, Mexican Air Force, and Mexican Navy
Mexico has the second largest defence budget ($6.07 billion USD) and armed forces in Latin America. Mexico's military strength includes 503,777 total personnel, of which around 192,770 are active in the frontline. The Mexican Military has three branches; the Mexican Army, the Mexican Air Force, and the Mexican Navy.


The Army
There are three main components of the Army: a national headquarters, territorial commands, and independent units. The Minister of Defense commands the Army by means of a very centralized system and a large number of general officers. The Army uses a modified continental staff system in its headquarters. The Army is the largest branch of Mexico's armed services. At present there are 12 "Military Regions", which are further broken down into 44 subordinate "Military Zones".


The Air Force
The Air Force national headquarters is embedded in the Army headquarters in Mexico City. It also follows the continental staff system, with the usual A1, A2, A3, and A4 sections. The tactical forces form what is loosely called an Air Division, but it is dispersed in four regions—Northeast, Northwest, Central, and Southern. The Air Force maintains a total of 18 air bases, and has the additional capability of opening temporary forward operating bases in austere conditions for some of the rotary wing and light fixed-wing assets.


The Navy

ARM Allende (FF-211)The Ministry of the Navy, the Navy’s national headquarters, is located in Veracruz City. The “Junta (or Council) of Admirals” plays a unique consultative and advisory role within the headquarters, an indication of the institutional importance placed on seniority and “year groups” that go back to the admirals’ days as cadets in the naval college. They are a very tightly knit group, and great importance is placed on consultation among the factions within these year groups.

The Navy’s operational forces are organized as two independent groups: the Gulf (East) Force and the Pacific (West) Force. Each group has its own headquarters, a destroyer group, an auxiliary vessel group, a Marine Infantry Group, and a Special Forces group. The Navy also has an air arm with troop transport, reconnaissance, and surveillance aircraft.

The Navy maintains significant infrastructure, including naval dockyards that have the capability of building ships, such as the Holzinger class gunboats. These dockyards have a significant employment and economic impact in the country.


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I put the military and foreign relations stuff to show since well that might be the less boring stuff. Other than the beautiful beaches and resorts. And all the girls in Spring Break -drools-
 

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i'm from Bandung , Indonesia nice meeting u guys.

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hehe whoa

@Zwivix: That's way too much info for me to read, let alone digest. I'm sure we don't need to know that much about ur country lolz.

@hatsuharupeace: I'm from Newcastle, whereabouts are u from? ^_^
 

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France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various overseas islands and territories located in other continents. French people often refer to Metropolitan France as "L'Hexagone" because of the geometric shape of its territory.

France uses a civil legal system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it. Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Napoleonic Code. In agreement with the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society.

Marianne is a symbol of the French Republic. She is an allegorical figure of liberty and the Republic and first appeared at the time of the French Revolution. The earliest representations of Marianne are of a woman wearing a Phrygian cap.

France is a member of the United Nations and serves as one of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council with veto rights. It is also a member of the WTO, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the Indian Ocean Commission.

France is divided into 26 administrative regions. 22 are in metropolitan France, and four are overseas regions. The regions are further subdivided into 100 departments which are numbered. This number is used in postal codes and vehicle number plates amongst others.

Popular sports : France also hosts the annual Tour de France, the most famous road bicycle race in the world. France is also famous for its 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race held in the Sarthe department. Football, rugby & Tennis too.

We also have a big history, great writers, architects…
And we eat very well !!!! :bkitty

Popular tourist sites : Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Palace of Versailles , Musée d'Orsay, Mont-Saint-Michel, the châteaux of the Loire Valley, the ski resorts of the French Alps or Pyrenees, Tahiti and the lagoons of French Polynesia, etc....
 

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Heh great to see u guys are very passionate about ur country, I wonder how much of that u wrote urself :)
 

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@mel_luvz_anime: I'm from Perth, way to the west. xD
 

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hehe whoa

@Zwivix: That's way too much info for me to read, let alone digest. I'm sure we don't need to know that much about ur country lolz.
Lol lets just say I cut down what I was gonna put by alot. So consider yourself lucky ^^
 

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Hi my first post here :blink ... I live in Brazil so... nice place to live here, my city Belo Horizonte it's a good place... gogogo to the club... :p

But in some years i will go to Europe or Japan to work to work, i start learn french and japanese :eyeroll
 

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Wow multilingual, I really admire that. Yeah learn Japanese, its the best language... second to english ofcourse ^_^ Congrats on ur first post and hope its not the last ^_^
 

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I'm from Surabaya, Indonesia... Yoroshiku minna-san ^^
 

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Born in Mato Grosso(state), Rondonopolis(City), Brazil(i guess u should noe this), but also lived in Toronto,Canada for 5 years

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Re: Where do you come from? - discussion

Hey guys!

First of all, it's great to hear about where everyone is from, so thank you for all your great posts! Keep the info coming! :amuse

Second, as you may have noticed, I've merged the 'About your country' thread with our 'Where do you come from?' discussion thread, since they are essentially about the same thing. So definitely, feel free to post here if you just want to talk about where you're from, what it's like to live there, average rainfall, GDP, or how many Starbucks are located within a 12 mile radius of your house...anything like that :p No need to wait for someone to ask you a question ^^ Have fun! :amuse
 

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Well, I used to live in Mexico till I was around 4 or 5 and then I moved to the US and currently live in Pennsylvania.

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@mel_luvz_anime: I'm from Perth, way to the west. xD
A good friend of mine is living in Perth too, Katanning. But she lives in the countryside; miles from the town so she hardly gets on the net.

But I love Australia! I'm planning to go on a road trip there from Perth to perhaps Adelaide after I graduate. But looking at super long journey on the road, I hope I dun get motion sickness. :XD
 
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