> The USA is the only country where you can move to and say you're from. North of the border there's a vast, mythical place called Canada - about 20% of Canadi

> The USA is the only country where you can move to and say you're from. North of the border there's a vast, mythical place called Canada - about 20% of Canadians were not born there [1]. Yes, this feeling of "acquired origin" is not true of every country, but the US and Canada are seldom the only place. In my experience, the same would happen in many South American countries if one is successful in integration - there's no snobbery about not being born there. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-population-soars-to-6-8-million-1.1308179 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-populat...