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It's funny how much importance we attach to someone's country of birth but not their state or canton or other administrative unit. If you were born in Texas but
by cratermoon 4y ago
It's funny how much importance we attach to someone's country of birth but not their state or canton or other administrative unit. If you were born in Texas but live in California, are you a Texan? Born in Boston but live in Los Angeles, are you a Bostonian or a Los Angeleno? Does it matter how old you were when you moved?
As an example, Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa. How many people think of him as South African? He has American, Canadian and South African citizenships. Is he Canadian?
- waboremo 4y agoYes, it's one a lot of societies are questioning recently, identity and how much we attribute to parts that might not make any sense but stem from tradition or false beliefs. A lot of it isn't purely geographical either, things like views on race can have a huge impact on how we label/self-label. Another part of the identity equation people are questioning are things like pride, where we claim people as [group] because it makes us feel better (even if the individual does not claim that identity, whether it be the school they attended or where they were born, etc). It's a lot of good discussion, but I feel due to political circumstances recently a lot of people have become very antagonistic towards Russian labels even if the individual themselves distances from the Russian administration, in the same way you can still be American if you hate the Biden administration.
- alpaca128 4y agoImho what's more relevant is the current status. Nobody can choose where they are born. It's considered malicious to call a trans person by their birth name, but if someone decides to leave their place of birth and publicly claim a different nationality that doesn't mean anything?