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 just don't understand this idea that we need to "connect to a homeland". Yeah, it's cool that you can trace your family's history to different places, but I feel no more "connection" to Germany than I do to Papua New Guinea. It's completely alien to me.
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And I certainly don't feel "part of a European people" who, fun fact: Historically have never felt that they were part of a "people" with other Europeans either. This idea just looks like pathetic nostalgia for a "people" & socio political landscape that never existed.
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Replying to @RationalDis
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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Bonus points if they account for if their chosen affiliation survives to the present, and if anyone cares. (I don't see many people mourning over Prussian culture, for example)
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Right? Isn't always a nebulous "Look at the White people... somehow that culture!" depiction.
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