I’m French. I grew up with my parents’ English since age 5, American English. People often assume I myself live in America and grew up there. I do have citizenship there but I don’t really want to go due to recent political stuff. 😓
I am a bi transmasc as well so I’m scared.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
if you’re european, nationality is an arbitrary thing measured in a distance of about 100km depending on dialect.
the one’s who care about this should not really care about this, and you should feel free to ignore them
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Say this to an Irish person. I dare you.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Irish blood, English heart, this I’m maaade of…
If Morrisey can sing that and survive, I’ll be fine
CaptainsLog@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Thanks ! Agreed, IDK why it’s valued so much in America. - un parisien
loomi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s because we are a nation of descendants of transplants from other countries, living among actual transplants. Anyone can become American. This question of your nationality and where your people came from to get here, it’s the beginning of a dance that establishes our social fabric. That’s the PR at least. These days with crazy man doing crazy things, it’s not quite how it used to be.