Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success
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In the category "fun, not to be taken too seriously", a test to see which European nationality should you have. Moved from The Netherlands to France, I wondered have I become more French, or am I still typically Dutch? Wrong: I scored as a Belgium. Isn't that exactly between France and Holland? Can't be a coincidence then.
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Thanks! Apparently I am most closely aligned with being Belgian (75%), even though I am from slightly further west (across the Atlantic). Next is Italian (63%) and Polish / German (50%).
Posted by: jackvinson | June 04, 2007 at 09:55 PM