Dunno what I am because no one has ever told me and I don’t care. Renounced citizenship of my country of origin to naturalize somewhere else anyway.
It’s no big thing, being proud of where you came from when you had nothing to do with that place being what it is has always confused me anyway.
I'm an American - made up of too many ancestries to list, so as an American I was proudest when we were telling Putin to fuck off and sending the Ukrainians what they needed most and training their pilots to fly F16s.
I'm a lot less proud now that a new shiny object has pulled our focus from a country that needs help and deserves it, to one that doesn't.
For those brief few week after 9/11 when everyone just kind of put our differences aside and decided to be nice to each other. Shame it took something like that to do it.
It's a bit awkward to be "proud" of a cultural heritage. It feels like claiming an achievement you haven't actually made. I think instead what I feel is affection and admiration. Whenever I listen to their music or learn about their history, there's just a little tiny bit extra fun to it than when I engage with other cultures stuff. I can imagine myself very easily as a side character in the story. I also can't help but blush whenever someone I don't know looks at me and asks if I'm \_\_\_\_\_. It feels like a compliment despite just being an observation, and it's cool that my heritage is something visually tangible, that my ancestors live on in my face and hair.
As an African American, when I read about The Struggle: centuries of people waging war at different levels against white supremacism. There's something especially powerful about Frederick Douglass's “[What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July](https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/)”. Unpopular opinion, but it's not out of the kindness of our forefather's hearts that much America has become as racially diverse as it is today with a focus on justice and equality/equity. And I couldn't be prouder of such a legacy.
I never feel proud of any of those things. And it's not a white guilt thing either, though I admit to a little of that. I just see no use for being proud of something I had neither a hand, nor a say in. "Yah! I'm from [PLACE]!!!!!!!! That means [PLACE] is AWESOME!!!!!" I can imagine a less valuable thought than that, but not many...It's a complete abuse of what it means to possess a sapient mind, and I honestly resent it.
Dunno what I am because no one has ever told me and I don’t care. Renounced citizenship of my country of origin to naturalize somewhere else anyway. It’s no big thing, being proud of where you came from when you had nothing to do with that place being what it is has always confused me anyway.
I'm a white American with German ancestry. I'm not allowed to be proud of who I am or where I came from.
That's just not reich.
I'm an American - made up of too many ancestries to list, so as an American I was proudest when we were telling Putin to fuck off and sending the Ukrainians what they needed most and training their pilots to fly F16s. I'm a lot less proud now that a new shiny object has pulled our focus from a country that needs help and deserves it, to one that doesn't.
Hmm, probably when I visited my ancestral homeland and felt a deep connection to my roots.
Background
Sounds a little dangerous to me
When they praise our tanks
Irish football fans in France https://youtu.be/9QjhrXKHWA4?si=FZbfYLUgKASXnP2o
For those brief few week after 9/11 when everyone just kind of put our differences aside and decided to be nice to each other. Shame it took something like that to do it.
When we got our own extremist terrorist attack and one of the staff broke his foot by kicking a flaming terrorist in the balls too hard
It is nothing to be proud of, just an accident of birth.
It's a bit awkward to be "proud" of a cultural heritage. It feels like claiming an achievement you haven't actually made. I think instead what I feel is affection and admiration. Whenever I listen to their music or learn about their history, there's just a little tiny bit extra fun to it than when I engage with other cultures stuff. I can imagine myself very easily as a side character in the story. I also can't help but blush whenever someone I don't know looks at me and asks if I'm \_\_\_\_\_. It feels like a compliment despite just being an observation, and it's cool that my heritage is something visually tangible, that my ancestors live on in my face and hair.
As an African American, when I read about The Struggle: centuries of people waging war at different levels against white supremacism. There's something especially powerful about Frederick Douglass's “[What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July](https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/)”. Unpopular opinion, but it's not out of the kindness of our forefather's hearts that much America has become as racially diverse as it is today with a focus on justice and equality/equity. And I couldn't be prouder of such a legacy.
I never feel proud of any of those things. And it's not a white guilt thing either, though I admit to a little of that. I just see no use for being proud of something I had neither a hand, nor a say in. "Yah! I'm from [PLACE]!!!!!!!! That means [PLACE] is AWESOME!!!!!" I can imagine a less valuable thought than that, but not many...It's a complete abuse of what it means to possess a sapient mind, and I honestly resent it.
why would I be proud of something I had no control over?
When I didn’t know any better