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[–] standyourground ago 

"My home is where my heart is", but it is sad that you can't feel the same in your own country. Finally I'm starting to feel it in my own. Poland finally looks like a great place to live and I will never move from here. Of course there is a lot to be fixed, but it will happen eventually. Today I was watching regional TV (I'm turning TV on once or two times a year) and I have seen so many happy and proud patriots. I almost cried watching kids and youths singing national anthem. I realized how much brainwashed I was so far to not identify with all of this. Since now i have a hope for the future generations and for myself. But sometimes the road takes you far away from home in order to learn you who you really are. I had to watch US patriots and their fight to understand that it's not a shame to love a father's land! It's not a shame to cultivate tradition.

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[–] Socks_are_okay ago 

I'm from a minority in the Netherlands. We have our own language, and bit of a different culture. It's different when you feel Frisian but you got to speak and write in Dutch. And what you know of big cities is that they're full of colored people, and what you know of these people is that you cannot trust them. It's taboo to bring up dislikes about these people, but most white people don't like them.

In a way, I was raised feeling disconnected because I couldn't speak my mother language. I'm happy for that now, because it made me feel less tied to one place. After all, my province was not my country, but the country of a different people.