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.
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.
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.
I am a meat popsicle
I’ve lived in 5 different regions of the country. I definitely feel like I’m an ‘American’
I’m divided between my IRL country and Tamriel.
I’m definitely American, but, I do not feel connected to the redneck MAGA region I live in.
So what does it feel like? Are you feeling uneasy all the time?
Im in Philly, I don’t worry about the nazi shit, but its Philly, people something get mugged, that’s probably the worst I fear (for now), not literal nazis.
I don’t feel like I’m in danger, just that 80% of the people around me are idiots.
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.
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.
The country of “Disabled Retro Computer Nerd Land” sounds rad as hell, (the DRCN for short)
I was born in PRC, immigrated to the US. I’m a current US Citizen derived from my mother’s naturalization. I identify as an American… because I grew up here, and lived longer than I ever did in China. Most of my memories are in the US.
…but this administration really want to make me get stuck in an airport, because um… checks news… yeah, not sure if my Citizenship is gonna last long under this pseudo-fascist regime.
PRC automatically revoked my citizenship already, so no going back. Job market in China is horrible, 1.4 Billion(?) People competing for jobs… hard for even find a job… and there aren’t many parks like the US have, there aren’t as many trees, at least in Guangzhou, felt like some urban hell.
So um… if fascists revoke my citizenship… I’m gonna become a documentary/movie like that other story of the person that waa stuck in an airport, y’all 'bouta see me on a wikipedia page! 🙃
I really like the concept of “Citizen of Earth”, but nobody in the world share that idea so…
I guess I’m stuck with being “American” for the time being… Or maybe Philadelphian? I mean… I’ve lived here like a decade so…
🤷♂️
(I don’t even know what’s the point of these identifiers…)
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Country — I moved around too much when I was younger to identify with anything else.
