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 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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      The country of “Disabled Retro Computer Nerd Land” sounds rad as hell, (the DRCN for short)

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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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    My primary identity is Dravidian, and more specifically, Tamilian. Rather than Indian.

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      a citizen of earth?

      I like to think of this as being just Human. Being Human transcend a lot of ideals and beliefs.

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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’m from Arkansas, US. I identify more with my small town than with my state or nation. I also identify as a southerner, but somewhat reluctantly.

    In times like these, I repeat the mantra: “At least you’re not in Mississippi.”

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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 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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    I’ve lived in 5 different regions of the country. I definitely feel like I’m an ‘American’

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    Both? So the best way to put it is I identify with my hometown and my state, identify less with my nation without totally “not” identifying with it, and identify most strongly with the land I came from before then.