Dual UK/US citizen here . . . living in the Scottish highlands. Hate to break it to you mate, but Brits do not think about this. Ever. 1/3 of the countries on earth celebrate their independence day as being independent FROM England. The US just isn’t that special.
4th of july, who will be happy to be independent of whom
Submitted 3 days ago by Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Delascas@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I hate to break it to you but it might not be about Britain.
One could understand it as, for Americans it is the day they celebrate their “freedom” and now… are they free? Will they wish for independence of Republican states?
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 days ago
What
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 3 days ago
That is a great question,
Easy you would say Caucasian USAns should be from Caucasian Englanders, but look at what each country has become. I who much rather be prefer to have earned our independence from post 1970s’ Denmark, or another Scandinavian Country.
Obviously The Indigenous & Black Peoples of USA are not, the way The Indigenous people were forced by The USA into new form of their nations & The Original Black USAn People stolen/forced from original Black Indigenous Countries.
Every 4th of July ‘Democracy Now’ does an awesome episode on “Where is my” Boack People’s “4th July” speech Federick Douglas.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 days ago
That was a tough read.
The Douglass speech was “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 3 days ago
Thanks,
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I wish Lemmy was independent of Americans.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean, Truth Social is just mastodon defederated from everyone else. You could stand up an instance of Lemmy, ban all the Americans and defederate from every instance that has Americans on it; no-one can stop you.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I hope to one day.