what nation is a gog nation? I mean... Why the USA user thinks gog is USA?

I admit I still feel as if you're pullin my leg ...
"to reduce masturbation" :D
What kind of reason is that for a serious doctor to mess with your genitals?

What posts are you refering to?

When I started this thread, I was specific in calling it questions to "foreign goggers" rather than "non-USA goggers." It was meant as a topic for anyone to ask anyone of another nation respectful questions about their nation/culture/whatever.

I realize GOG is located in Poland, but the GOG Nation (if you want to call it that) is a worldwide community.

I'm not pulling your leg. I was born in the country, so my doctor was a country doctor and did not perform circ on me. Growing up, I felt very embarassed in the boys shower room when I was usually the only one uncirc. It wasn't until I grew up and realized how lucky I was not to be circ. Again, I view it as a barbaric ritual and am appalled that a civilized country like the USA promotes it as standard medical procedure. Remember that before 1950, masturbation was considered an unhealthy evil activity and society did everything it could to discourage it and they viewed circ as a great way to reduce it. I'm glad that there is now a movement to go natural and reduce infant circ.

Dont worry, sorry for my tone, I was joking. Actually, I always think gog is Poland, hehe.

Yeah, it just seems so weird that this practice still continued to be common until the year 2000 or so, and I wouldn't have expected it in the US. Then again it's not that unusual seeing laws and practices in place that should have been abolished ages ago and are not really compatible with the present time and age anymore. Even in Germany there seem to be some dubious laws the origin of which dates back to colonial and nazi times ...

Anyway, thanks for enlighting me! :)

Depends greatly on what you think a conversation is.

Don't know about Denmark, but Finland isn't very distinguished in the non-racist department either. I know because I have had the terrible misfortune of being half Finn, half Korean. Mind you, some people have it worse than I (black people spring to mind), so feel sorry for them and not me.

Apparently, I look Finnish enough to fool many, yet I still manage to attract people, usually drunk Finnish men in their fifties, who sit down opposite to me in public areas and ask where I'm from and what I'm doing in Finland, and then go on and on about how important it is to work for the benefit of the society. For fuck's sake, I was born in Finland, I was bullied in kindergarten and school in Finland, I did military service in Finland, I'm studying in Finland and I'll almost certainly end up working in Finland as well regardless of what drunks think I should do with my life.

In addition to flak from unknown Finns, I'm also pretty sensitive to what my friends say as well - when Girlfriend made a non-serious comment about me having slant eyes, I went absolutely ape. I've had to put up with this shit all my life, and I cannot see why the hell I should take it from friends as well.

Sorry, I may have answered a question that no one ever asked.

I have never actually been to Norway, but I reckon it's pretty much the same as here. About six years ago, we had to wait until January until we got snow that didn't melt in a few days; a year back, when I was in the army, it could get as cold as minus thirty Celsius (plus wind) and the snow reached halfway up my thigh. It never got very light, and the little light we got during the day vanished early (between 3 pm and 5 pm, I think). On the upside, it never got dark on the ten-day summer exercise in Lapland.

Can't speak for other countries, but I know for sure the problem we have here with English: way too much grammar, not enough conversation. I swear I was doing the same things from primary to high school. I've spoken to other students from other European countries, and while they made mistakes my teachers would consider terrible (how many times i heard "don't" instead of "doesn't"), their speaking was incredibly more fluid than mine, and their pronunciation was miles better.

Do you guys watch American mafia movies and laugh about how dumb we are?

I can very much relate to this. In class, we almost never spoke English, it was really bizarre. And murder on the active vocabulary.

In it's written form, English is very present in Germany, almost to a fault. Go into a museum, for example, and half of the paintings by domestic artists will have English titles.

That reminds me of The Sopranos. :D

actually no,there are other things that make you dumb

no free healthcare for example,death penalty(more expensive that put people in jail),no restriction in gun laws

please,also you have to get rid of your oligarchy

I haven't performed empirical studies, my knowledge comes mainly from this piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGcqPE7xu0

I've also heard that e.g. in Philippines it is a common practise, which I don't quite understand as aren't they mostly Catholics or something? Maybe for the same reasons as US folks then.

No argument there, I think "The Finns" party rise is a testament to that. I'm really saddened about your bad experiences because it is kinda close thing to me also.

My point was mainly that unlike in Denmark, these tendencies have not yet quite been converted into much tighter immigration laws in other nordic countries. Meaning, my understanding is that currently it can be quite hard to immigrate and settle into Denmark. But, I'm no real expert in it, I have visited only a couple of times there (Copenhagen) due to work.

What do you people think of Berlusconi?