Identifying with a Country

Another stupid question in the same survey:

What does this even mean? How do you “identify with a country”? It’s beyond nuts to ask such a question.

Incidentally, the list of countries they provide doesn’t even include the USSR, which is the country where I was born. Maybe pay attention to history instead of torturing words with the goal of extracting some particularly neoliberal essence out of them?

One thought on “Identifying with a Country

  1. “How do you “identify with a country””

    It’s for people that don’t like the country they live in (and/or romanticize the country they or their parents came from to a laughable degree).

    Just on social media, the actress/singer Selena Gomez*, born in the US and who can’t speak or sing Spanish in an intelligible way** was whailing and carrying on about ‘her people’ being deported….

    Girl, you’re not mexican, you’re a pocha. Accept that.

    *I don’t know her music at all but she was good on the first season of ‘Only murders in the building’ (all I’ve seen of it).

    **She’s in that supposedly awful movie about a trans drug lord and Spanish speakers can’t make heads or tails out of her Spanish dialogue/singing….

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