If you're in a group and someone asks you where you're from, what do you say?
- If you're in a group and someone asks you where you're from, what do you say?
- Do you say your city?
- Your region?
- Your state?
- Your country?
- It has to do with a few things.
- First, it has to do with which collective you feel most allegiance to.
- Second, is your more specific unit well-known enough to be recognized by everyone, even people not from your area?
- Third, where do you think the other people in the group are from?
- If nearly everyone in the group is from the US, you wouldn't say "US," but something more specific.
- But if nearly everyone in the group were from Europe, you would say "US."