We were talking about attendees to euvolt, including one person I thought was a foreigner living in the UK. Mike corrected me, saying No, english living in Germany. This reminded me of this quote:

Some years ago I spent a lot of time with a young lady who was very proud and conscious of being English. Once she asked me - to my great surprise - whether I would marry her. No, I replied, I will not. My mother would never agree to my marrying a foreigner. She looked at me a little surprised and irritated, and retorted: I, a foreigner? What a silly thing to say. I am English. You are the foreigner. And your mother, too. I did not give in. In Budapest, too? I asked her. Everywhere, she declared with determination. Truth does not depend on geography. What is true in England is also true in Hungary and in North Borneo and Venezuela and everywhere.

But I was astounded to discover that Sabrina - our resident expat Merkin - hadn't read George Mikes' classic work for such immigrants. So here for the benefit of such persons are some links to it.

• Buy it at Amazon (UK)
• Buy it at Amazon (US)
• Penguin Notes for Teachers
• Full bootleg text Complete with OCR errors and no illustrations. I'd strongly suggest buying it instead.