Currently struggling w the paradox that "FUCK you I don't even wanna BE part of this country anymore" is, itself, a very American tradition
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In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany the narrator moves to Canada bc he hates America so much only to find he doesn't fit in
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It's not very Canadian to be filled with hatred and resentment of America, only Americans are like that
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That was the paradox at the heart of
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The 442nd choosing the duty to fight and die for America no matter how much America spit on them is a very stereotypically Japanese attitude
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People who angrily and righteously rejected being Americans bc America rejected them, by contrast, were acting in a very American tradition
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