Does the Country of Mylotters Affect if You Will Add/Accept them?

It makes absolutely no difference at all to me from which country a person, online or off, comes from. We all belong to the same race and we are all brothers and sisters and it is just chance that we happen to be in a particular place when we are born. How do we know from where a user is anyway? In our profiles it says 'location' which is not the same as 'place of birth'. Many people are typing from a different place from where they were born and unless they tell us, we are not to know. For me skin colour is not a reason for accepting or not accepting a person. Where do we draw the line? Their skin might be different from mine but then so could be the colour of their eyes and the colour of their hair. Their beliefs and cultures might be different too but only because I, and not necessarily 'they', was raised in a different country. My sister is in US because she married an American and I am in Italy because I married (and divorced) an Italian but we are both English born and raised. I'm sure that many others now reside in another country which is not the one where they were born and raised but so what? When we are born we are all exactly the same and it is only later that circumstances change us but that does not mean that everyone from one country is better or worse than those from another one surely?

Hi sweetie. I honestly don't care which country people are from. As long as we can have fun, i;m happy. Enjoy.

Hello banny Banzie, There's no discrimination here. when i first got here, it was the foreign veterans who were the first become my friends. lately, i have slowly adding filipino mylotters, but after that backstabbing incident by a fellow pinoy lotter, i shielded myself hanging out with the foreigners. not until the last years mylot conference. just don't intervenve when it comes to foreigners politics most specially American Politics

When I get a friend request, I check the profile to see if they have participated at all. The only time the country comes into play is in some of my responses. I am from the US and sometimes things here aren't the same as other countries. We have things here that some countries don't have and before I give advice or whatever, I sometimes check to see where they are from.

Actually for me it is not a big deal there from part of the world because I have to time to check first his/her profile before I accepting or requesting being a friend here. I think it is not affect, only one observed here some of other countries which not actively participating because of language barrier may be they are not prepared fo english discussion. One time I remember one mylotter said that she is Chinese and welling to be active here but she admit not fluent or not known english language, so only that I obsevered I don't know the other...

Hello Bannybanzie, I am from INDIA and i never checked a person's country before adding him/her in my friend's list.Though i think most of the friends here on MYLOT for me are not from INDIA as still i have not checked their profiles. I don't think i become more confident when discuss something to the person of my country.This is discussion site and i always like to discuss things & read responses does not matter for me if the person writting that response is from CHINA,UK or US.No feeling of uncomfortness for me for that.And i suggest you too also not to feel like this.. Be confident always discussing with anyone. Happy Mylotting.

I don't let where the person is from affect my decision in accepting their friendship or not. What does affect my decision is what type of discussions they start or how they respond to others discussions. If I find them to be a decent person then I'll add them however, if they're not and instead are mean then I will not accept them. It all boils down to how the person is but never because of where they're from. I'm an open book. I like everybody until they do me wrong then they're deleted off of my friends list.

I accept people according to their discussions...not where they live or come from...I happen to live in a society where I meet people from all over the world every day...and I grew up [was born] in another country to me no one is foreigner! it's our world and we all belong in it!

When I get a friend request, I check the member's profile just to make sure that he did not join Mylot just to spam. In fact, I have 4 pending friend requests that I have not accepted (nor denied) because I am still waiting for them to participate in the discussions. They currently have (0) beside their names and it has been months since their invitation. Sometimes I check the country where they are from when I see something in their post that made me curious. Like when they talk about customs. Mylot is also a learning experience for me. Have a nice day!

I don't add a mylotter because s/he comes from my country or not. I add mylotters because I want to be friend with them,and want to have fun with them. This is one way of knowing each other,our differences and make friends all over the globe. As long as one respect each other and never say anything bad..it's fine with me.

I don't see from which country a user is here when accepting 'friends' requests but go by their activity although I notice there is some cultural difference between each country and this makes this site interesting.

I am afraid I differ with you on this matter.I like to make friends with those who come from Britain and America.The reason why I do so is that I want to improve my English and learn to idiom English.Of course ,many people that come from other place are good at English too, but theirs more or less bears regionalism.

I don't have very many on my friend's list but I never really checked to see what country they were in before adding them. The people I have on my friends are people who was wanting me or to share with me money making sites.

I came from the Philippines but I never bother to check the profile of mylotters who requested as friends. I accept them without hesitation. I just enjoy reading discussions and sometimes responding. I don't even know the nationalities of my friends here. However, I only have few friends because I'm afraid my request might not be accepted.

I never pay attention to the nationality of any Mylotters. I always accept friend's request even if I don't know him/her. I try to be nice. Nice people are all around and it doesn't matter where you come from. I love China

I really don't care about the nationality of friends in here. I'd accept all invitation for friendship regardless of that. Actually it is not an assurance that people of the same country will have the same interests. That is not actually true because people have diverse interest and similarities of interests do not rest on your culture always. So to me any nationality is welcome to be my friends here at mylot.

I accept friend requests from any country in the world, and I get excited when I receive a friend request from a country where I don't have any friends yet, because I would like to find friends from any part of the world So many countries are represented here and I think that is a really great thing. It makes the discussions a lot more interesting and we are able to learn from eachother. I have a few Danish friends, but most of my friends are from other parts of the world. It is easy for me to talk to other Danes in my offline life, but my international friends I only meet online, and I really appreciate the chance to talk to people from other countries when I visit MyLot.

When I do actually get around to adding/accepting friends again(eventually), I think that country is the furthest thing from my concern. And really that is something that is a rather petty reason not to add someone to begin with. When we are online, we are pretty much citizens of the world and countries are something that just add color to our background. I think that myLot is one of those great places where we can all get together and get along or at least try to. There are many times where there are boundaries for culture that are rather bad but really shouldn't really matter that much online. When I start accepting people again, it is really something that is so far down the list that it is really not on the list at all. I would try to see if they were a valuable member of the community, not someone who just friends everyone to try and get in their good graces, so they can PM spam. That really gets on my nerves.

Gosh if that were true for me I would not have the 815 listed friends. I do not consider a country when I accept friends. When I first came here I did not come with any friends and I did not know anyone on myLot. I began receiving friend requests like crazy. I accepted everyone immediately even without looking at their profiles. These days though I do not reject, I do leave a few in pending if we have never interacted before. I get loads of requests daily from a lot of members I have never even seen and or interacted with. I can't help but wonder why they requested. I am one person and can't keep up with everyone's discussion as time is of the essence. If their interests and or topics are not in common with me then I do not see a point in being on a FR list. I often tell members to take their time in requesting because if we cannot respond to their discussions they will feel ignored. I interact with a lot of members continually who are not on my friend list. I do not pick and choose members, I rather pick and choose topics when it comes to my responding. Some of my closets friends here are from third world countries, whom I have grown very fond of. It is a joy to learn about their customs, culture and traditions.

i don,t think it affacted a much.i have not been many days here but i go to all the disscussion which i think they are intrested weather they have been started by indian,american or any other country.yes it may affact the topic bcoz some time american use raise topic of their country so,for other country they less intrested i think.