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.

  • Singletona082
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    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.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    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.

    • Singletona082
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      92 months ago

      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
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        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
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    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.

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    Despite being cishet somehow it’d be LGBT-dominated and 80% about gaming like everywhere I find myself lol

    I mean it! I keep finding myself in queer communities and I legitimately don’t know why lol

    • Singletona082
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      62 months ago

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

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

  • @DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • dpflug
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      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
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      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!

  • Tux960
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    My primary identity is Dravidian, and more specifically, Tamilian. Rather than Indian.

  • UnfortunateShort
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    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

  • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

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

    • a Kendrick fan
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      a citizen of earth?

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

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    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.

  • @amminadabz@sh.itjust.works
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    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.”

  • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    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.