I never feel more American than when I'm arguing with an Alt-Right dipshit I'm a White dude with German/Scottish/Welsh ancestry, but have never identified as White/German/Scottish/Welsh I'm a fucking American If you need a larger sense of belonging than that join a book club
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I honestly can't tell how much of this is about people wanting to "reclaim" that phantom nostalgic ideal & how much of it is a Pan-Euroism that is being used as a deliberate catalyst to enact a gambit for domination over (((other people)))pic.twitter.com/Lc0KMd9wiB
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I feel like the people who say this read Heidi or similar books as a child and think that's "Europe". I can identify in a way because, as an American child, that's how I imagined European life to be. Dirndls, fairy tales, chocolate, happy cows, and sunshine.
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You're shockingly close to the mark. There are White Nationalist accounts that legit post pictures of old advertisements with captions like "Remember Who We Used To Be".
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Yeah, but those racial terms have always been changing i.e. German, Italian, Irish, Scottish etc people weren't even consider to be White somewhat recently.
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But to keep that idealism into adulthood? Just silly. It's not "Europe" (though the EU may change this perception?) it's Poland and Germany and Hungary, with their own history, identities, and tensions.
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Feel free to ask anyone English how much kinship they have for the French. Heck, a decent number of Brexit voters were driven by distrust of German power.
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