Personally I feel more connected to the Vancouver BC/ Seattle/ Portland corridor than with the rest of the US, so I feel more comfortable saying I’m a Cascadian than an American.

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    I’ve lived outside my country of nationality for years at a time. I’ve realized that I probably feel Scandinavian first and foremost, my nationality coming second to that.

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    I identify with Norwegian and western european liberal values. I believe in free speech, democratic values, science, press freedom, human rights, unity, being compassionate, a strong welfare state, equality, womens rights, lgbtqia+ rights. I also have a sense of feeling that all europeans are my peers and that we are a collective. When Russia attacked Ukraine, it felt as if they in some way also attacked a close neighbour, a friend and our way of life.

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    I’m a special snowflake and I don’t really identify with people in any particular area. Though I guess I do know my tribe when I meet them. But we don’t really have a name. Intellectual hippies maybe.

    If I had to pick one then probably my neighborhood is how I would identify.

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    I feel connected to my city, my region, the EU and Germany in that order. Which is how it’s supposed to be I guess, except that EU and Germany are swapped for some facist reasons

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    I am disabled, and a retro computer nerd.

    Because frankly? I haven’t been proud of America since 9/11 and nothing my family or the people around me have said or done have helped me to not feel shame.

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    Though I’m from the Netherlands, my father had been living in France for fifteen years now (and we spent ten years in that area renovating the house).

    So I consider France to be my second fatherland.

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    I am a Californian. My flag is the flag of the California Republic.

    Unfortunately, my state sees fit to subsidize a bunch of conservative states that otherwise would have failed already.

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      As someone in one of those States.

      Cut us off. There won’t be change until these people hurt and right now they view California as something they are subsidizing and not the other way round.

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        Was pretty hilarious (tragic and awful) to hear senators from very low gdp states on the news talking about how they were going to “cut funding to California” after the L.A. fires until we leaned our lesson and stopped having fires. We’re number one and we have number two beat by over a trillion.

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    Like a medieval peasant, I’m living now less than a mile from where I was born. The US is too big to feel culturally attached to it, but my city, yeah, I am very “from here”. Like when I was a kid we’d wander around the ghost town of a weekend downtown, and as I grew up the city became populated and revitalized, it grew up with me.

    In another country I usually say Florida, and if it’s a Spanish speaking country then people start speaking to me in Spanish.

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    I feel a deep connection to the place I was born. I have heritage here.

    In my 20s I moved around a lot, lived in other states, other countries.

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    I identify mostly with my country (Brazil). I honestly identify more with a somewhat local football team (soccer team, for the americans) than with my state lol.

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    I am European (but currently living in Asia). I don’t identify with my country of birth. However, I do feel connected to the Franco-Alemannic culture space that I grew up in. The languages, literature, arts and crafts, architecture, food, music etc. are way more important to me than the colour of my passport or the madhouse that is politics.

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    Despite being cishet somehow it’d be LGBT-dominated and 80% about gaming like everywhere I find myself lol

    I mean it! I keep finding myself in queer communities and I legitimately don’t know why lol