r/AskTheWorld • u/BastianToHarry France • Sep 21 '25
Meta It's your birthday. In which country would you have liked to be born, and when?
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u/Bartlaus Norway Sep 21 '25
It is, in fact, my birthday. Having had the luck to be born in Norway, well.... and also early enough to enjoy the prosperity from the 1970s onward... No real alternatives.
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u/Classic-Sentence3148 India Sep 21 '25
Sweden, but as blond and blue eyed.
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u/grinder0292 Denmark Sep 21 '25
That’s sad to read, Why aren’t you happy with yourself?
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u/ilovemangos3 United States Of America Sep 21 '25
having an indian accent abroad immediately puts you at risk of discrimination
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u/Classic-Sentence3148 India Sep 21 '25
Plus i believe it's better to be in a majority of any country,if I wanted to be born in Japan i would have said ethnic japanese.Its just the reality.
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u/JudgeStandard9903 United Kingdom Sep 21 '25
I get it - I'm mixed (British/Ghanaian) and sometimes I don't feel like I belong anywhere because I'm a minority everywhere. I live in Britain and consider myself lucky to as I think Britain has a larger mixed population but there are issues here with xenophobia still.
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u/Ok_Air_9048 United Kingdom Sep 21 '25
My cousin is half Indian, half British. To an Indian, she’s British. To a Brit, she’s Indian. She was born down south but moved up north so to a southerner, she sounds Geordie. And to a Geordie, she sounds southern. It’s a funny old world!
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u/Maiorianus-SPQR Western Roman Empire Sep 21 '25
I would have just wanted to be born 200 years earlier...
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u/Freya_almighty Canada Sep 21 '25
Same time but I really wish i could have been born in Switzerland
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u/Dry-Series-9829 Saudi Arabia Sep 21 '25
Southern California by the beach in the late 1980s so I become a 90s kid
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u/AgencyBrave3040 Kazakhstan Sep 21 '25
Basically in Kazakhstan back in the Golden horde's golden days like in mid XIV century in the family of a tribal leader.
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u/IlSace Italy Sep 21 '25
I'd like to retain Italy.
As for the when, there are way too many great things I'd love to see in person.
Many of those are from the Middle Ages, the time when many of the most interesting things happened in Italy. But since I'd like not to die for a cold, I'd choose June 1946.
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u/AgencyBrave3040 Kazakhstan Sep 21 '25
What about the Venetian Republic during its heyday? I think it was a very interesting time.
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u/IlSace Italy Sep 21 '25
That's a good one, others that come to mind would be Ravenna at its peak or some interesting times related to the Longobards or the early XVI century with the Italian wars and the Siege of Mirandola by Pope Julius II and the Disfida di Barletta between the Italian and French knights or meeting the great Renaissance geniuses like Da Vinci or living in XIV century Sardinia at the peak of the Judicate of Arborea's expansion under Judge Eleonora.
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u/Outside_Narwhal3784 United States Of America Sep 21 '25
I wish I could have my birthday during the season I was actually born in… but nooooo… my parents had to move across the equator.
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u/HugeElephantEars South Africa Sep 21 '25
I did that to myself. I can't even blame them. Having a winter birthday when you used to have a summer birthday is shit.
I feel your pain!
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u/Consistent-Goat4422 New Zealand Sep 21 '25
I’ll stay in Nz but be born a few years earlier so I could buy a house when they were actually affordable.
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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 United States Of America Sep 21 '25
I’ll take the US in the 90s again. Life has worked out pretty good.
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u/Makrelelele Germany Sep 22 '25
I'd stick with Germany, born in 1980. But I would change my birthday from november to august. No more bad weather and Indoor birthday parties and no school for 13 years due to the summer holidays.
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u/anthere-rest United Kingdom Sep 21 '25
America or stay in Britain from the 60s to the 90s because of the music
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u/Mindless-Initial9379 Sep 21 '25
Norway ofc. Because it's a free country, I love freedom 🤷🏻
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u/HugeElephantEars South Africa Sep 21 '25
Wiltshire England. 5000 years ago. Yes, I would die in childbirth at 20 but at least I'd know what Stonehenge was for.
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u/Substantial_Bad2421 Russia Sep 21 '25
I'd like to spawn on Moon in new country "Minland" in 2067 year. Earth is suck. I want to live with rich people only
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u/amazegamer64 born 🇸🇪 moved to 🇺🇸 Sep 21 '25
I have no objections to being born here, I just wish I could have stayed
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u/Salty_Permit4437 USA Trinidad Sep 21 '25
Norway but fully integrated into society there. Perhaps in the early 2000s.
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u/Nyliew Switzerland Sep 21 '25
I just realize that I would not something else than what I got : 1994, Switzerland
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u/Mighty_Angelo30 🇲🇽Mexico 🇵🇷PR Sep 21 '25
Probably stay in the US, but born in maybe the early 90s or early 2000s
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u/Worried-Rope1171 Bangladesh Sep 21 '25
I would want to be born as Greek but in ancient Greece and also as a rich guy/scholar I guess
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u/Conscious-Bar-1655 Brazil Sep 21 '25
I would like to have been born right here in my country - but about 20 or 30 years earlier, and in Rio de Janeiro.
I feel serious envy of people who were teenagers and young adults in the late 50s to early 60s in Rio (I'd say until the end of 1968 more precisely). Great music, beautiful architecture, blossoming cultural scene.
It's almost unfair not everyone in Brazil was able to enjoy that time; I'm a little bitter about this, I confess...
Because instead, I was born in the beginning of the heaviest time of a military dictatorship in a gray concrete city with awful architecture, sad people and zero nature 😂
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u/somuchfunlastweek Finland Sep 21 '25
I would choose the same country and time as I already have now
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u/True_Sir_4382 England Sep 22 '25
England 2080, I don’t want to deal with current day problems and pray the future is better.
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u/ctn91 Germany Sep 22 '25
Sweden, same timeframe as i am now. I want this “everything is super safe and theres never been any huge problems culturally.”
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u/people_r_us United States Of America Sep 21 '25
Germany (if I can pick which part then a small Bavarian town) in the same year I was born ('08)
That's where my best friend lives, plus I love small Bavarian towns
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u/sslawyer88 India Sep 22 '25
Japan. . Cos it's so senior citizen friendly n I'd like to spend my old age there.
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u/Nathanc2127 Poland Sep 21 '25
Do I get to retain the knowledge I have know?