Do you identify with your country of origin/ citizenship or with another subregion? Why?

Personally I feel more connected to the Vancouver BC/ Seattle/ Portland corridor than with the rest of the US, so I feel more comfortable saying I'm a Cascadian than an American.

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uberdroog@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

I am a meat popsicle

singletona@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I am disabled, and a retro computer nerd.

Because frankly? I haven't been proud of America since 9/11 and nothing my family or the people around me have said or done have helped me to not feel shame.

meep_launcher@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

The country of "Disabled Retro Computer Nerd Land" sounds rad as hell, (the DRCN for short)

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I am a Californian. My flag is the flag of the California Republic.

Unfortunately, my state sees fit to subsidize a bunch of conservative states that otherwise would have failed already.

singletona@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

As someone in one of those States.

Cut us off. There won't be change until these people hurt and right now they view California as something they are subsidizing and not the other way round.

I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Was pretty hilarious (tragic and awful) to hear senators from very low gdp states on the news talking about how they were going to “cut funding to California” after the L.A. fires until we leaned our lesson and stopped having fires. We’re number one and we have number two beat by over a trillion.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y

I’m a special snowflake and I don’t really identify with people in any particular area. Though I guess I do know my tribe when I meet them. But we don’t really have a name. Intellectual hippies maybe.

If I had to pick one then probably my neighborhood is how I would identify.

Tux960@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

I am European (but currently living in Asia). I don't identify with my country of birth. However, I do feel connected to the Franco-Alemannic culture space that I grew up in. The languages, literature, arts and crafts, architecture, food, music etc. are way more important to me than the colour of my passport or the madhouse that is politics.

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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dpflug@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 1y

That movie is Terminal, with Tom Hanks.

I hope you don't because stateless. I hear it's usually much less pleasant than just airport shenanigans.

... Come to think of it, turning (parts of) airports into housing for people who have lost citizenship would be hella punk. Can we do that?

klemptor@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y

Hey fellow Philadelphian! I'm originally from New Jersey but have lived in and around Philly since the late '90s.

I like the Citizen of Earth concept too. We're all human and borders are just lines on a map!

MoonlightFox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I identify with Norwegian and western european liberal values. I believe in free speech, democratic values, science, press freedom, human rights, unity, being compassionate, a strong welfare state, equality, womens rights, lgbtqia+ rights. I also have a sense of feeling that all europeans are my peers and that we are a collective. When Russia attacked Ukraine, it felt as if they in some way also attacked a close neighbour, a friend and our way of life.

LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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singletona@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Because, while assholes can be found in all places, you have decided yo surround yourself with the interestingly weird.

LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
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dpflug@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 1y

Hey from another cishet in queer spaces. We just realize where the fun is. 😉

UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I feel connected to my city, my region, the EU and Germany in that order. Which is how it's supposed to be I guess, except that EU and Germany are swapped for some facist reasons

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I don't particularly identify with any nation or region. I suppose I am a citizen of earth?

greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

a citizen of earth?

I like to think of this as being just Human. Being Human transcend a lot of ideals and beliefs.

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I've lived Connecticut, New Jesey, Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee. There is nothing I can call myself other than American.

Obama once said "No party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism." I'll be one of the patriots fighting to bring us back from the brink. American AF 🤘

dpflug@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 1y

Welcome to the @redstateinsurgents@a.gup.pe group. 😁

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y

Though I'm from the Netherlands, my father had been living in France for fifteen years now (and we spent ten years in that area renovating the house).

So I consider France to be my second fatherland.

callyral@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y

I identify mostly with my country (Brazil). I honestly identify more with a somewhat local football team (soccer team, for the americans) than with my state lol.

Mothra@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

I don't identify with either my country of birth (where I lived until I was 19) or the country I currently reside in. Of course I have a strong influence from both, especially where I grew up, and I find it's easier for me to understand the culture there but that doesn't mean I resonate or identify with it.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm definitely American, but, I do not feel connected to the redneck MAGA region I live in.

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I don't feel like I'm in danger, just that 80% of the people around me are idiots.

Monkyhands@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 1y

I've lived outside my country of nationality for years at a time. I've realized that I probably feel Scandinavian first and foremost, my nationality coming second to that.

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Both? So the best way to put it is I identify with my hometown and my state, identify less with my nation without totally "not" identifying with it, and identify most strongly with the land I came from before then.

Drax_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I've lived in 5 different regions of the country. I definitely feel like I'm an 'American'

RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Like a medieval peasant, I'm living now less than a mile from where I was born. The US is too big to feel culturally attached to it, but my city, yeah, I am very "from here". Like when I was a kid we'd wander around the ghost town of a weekend downtown, and as I grew up the city became populated and revitalized, it grew up with me.

In another country I usually say Florida, and if it's a Spanish speaking country then people start speaking to me in Spanish.

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

I feel a deep connection to the place I was born. I have heritage here.

In my 20s I moved around a lot, lived in other states, other countries.

amminadabz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

I'm from Arkansas, US. I identify more with my small town than with my state or nation. I also identify as a southerner, but somewhat reluctantly.

In times like these, I repeat the mantra: "At least you're not in Mississippi."

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I'm divided between my IRL country and Tamriel.

hisao@ani.social · 1 pts · 1y

I'd probably identify myself as a hikikomori. I've had zero meaningful offline connections for more than a decade, and at this moment, I haven’t set foot outside my apartment not even once for almost a year (although there are far more serious reasons for this than just my personality). In the future, if there will be an opportunity, I'd like to move to Asia as a digital nomad working remotely. I don’t expect to make any irl connections there either, but I’d be happy to immerse myself walking around oriental slums, parks, shrines, seaside and enjoying the local cuisine.

Legianus@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

I am German, but I feel foremost European

NormalOnNSFW@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 1y

Country — I moved around too much when I was younger to identify with anything else.