Message from @Overseer Strasser
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But id rather try to fix my country.
Or get a good job.
Even if not as paid.
Is there any reason you hesitate in that?
Staying?
Yeah pretty much the current state of the country.
No, why you hesitate in leaving.
Do you feel as though your security may vanish upon leaving?
I just like my country.
I feel at home here.
I understand.
But life is like really better just a country away.
In slovenia.
And in austria its way better.
For me; my country is so large that I will be able to go from one end of this continent to the other.
So even if I just run away tomorrow, I won't be abandoning America nor her people.
I mean americans dont really have such strong connection to its country or ethnonationalism in general.
Nor know how things work outside.
I feel like that is a poor sterotype.
Think of the situation America has been in for ages.
A wedge of foreigners, forcing themselves into the lives of unwilling Americans.
We're made to fight our natural instincts to group with those like us.
From an early age.
We may have luxury
But this luxury means nothing; as we are truly missing belonging.
I mean europeans cant understand americans same like americans cant understand europeans based on the mentality of the people and when it comes to ethnonationalism its like 2 different worlds.
Europeans are often divisionary in their ethnonationalism. Wishing to create stronger lines. Meanwhile Americans have to both unite and diffierenate between groups.
American people seem to be more and more taking identity in politics and other things and distancing themselves from their country and nationalism.
We- Europeans and Americans - are distinquished groups.
Exactly.
This is true; however I think misreading Americans as ''culturaless'' and such is a bit too far.
Most of the people in america either distance themselves fom nationalism or identify as european nationalities rather than american.
I dont think you dont have culture.
Anglo- and German-Americans are the ones who don't ''hyphenate''.
The rest do. Although it doesn't really mean as much as you may think.
Outside of (some) Irish and Italian communities in America. Most people live as though they're just parts of the greater whole. While those communities may attempt to remain more distinct.
But those are *those* communities. Which do so for varying historical & social reasons. But it only takes one generation of children just calling themselves ''American'' and speaking General American for that divisional line amoung them to evaporate.
Sometimes it is done consciously, sometimes not. And... if you mean the census.
The census is the census.
I do think various ethnicities need ethnostates but yet work together as a nation.