If you had asked me five years ago I would have said fuck yes I love my country, I'm the most patriotic bitch here. Five years ago though I was still learning to let go of racism and hadn't met anyone outside of my culture bubble.
I've been living here in Austin Texas now which is deemed the hippy city and is blue among an ocean of red and I've become someone else. Now all I can see is the racism in others, the close mindedness of everyone that isn't a "hippy", imaginary lines that people will die to get across and others will kill to not let them, and how countries are only needed because a world government isn't feasible.
I don't care that I'm American. I'm not embarrassed and I'm not proud. I did nothing to become American except be born to my specific parents. I won't leave because my family and life are here but I could have easily have been from another country and been just as happy. If somehow my life required me to move (my family coming with) I would be ok living anywhere else as long as I had common freedoms (nowhere women are second rate or religion is forced)
I've been living here in Austin Texas now which is deemed the hippy city and is blue among an ocean of red and I've become someone else. Now all I can see is the racism in others, the close mindedness of everyone that isn't a "hippy", imaginary lines that people will die to get across and others will kill to not let them, and how countries are only needed because a world government isn't feasible.
I don't care that I'm American. I'm not embarrassed and I'm not proud. I did nothing to become American except be born to my specific parents. I won't leave because my family and life are here but I could have easily have been from another country and been just as happy. If somehow my life required me to move (my family coming with) I would be ok living anywhere else as long as I had common freedoms (nowhere women are second rate or religion is forced)
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
