If you are like me. Stop taking the meds you need to survive and just hope you take a forever nap soon. Use the money saved for a life insurance policy so you can at least give your family enough funds to get out.
you trust insuance?
Dude, you need to touch some grass
Yeah, situation sucks right now but the world has seen lots worse before. Things will get better
Parlamentary politics means I have close to 0 input in what actually goes on in government.
Don’t take up space online defending yourself as “one of the good ones”, or saying not all people from your country are like that.
Don’t take up space online replying to content critical of your country by saying how ashamed you are to be from your country, or how sorry you are.
Strangers online don’t know you. If you truly believe you are not part of the problem you should be able to rationalize negative comments about people in your country as generalizations and/or venting and therefore not directed at you personally. There is no need to correct them. There is no need to make sure they know you are not part of the problem. That does not help them, it only helps you. Let it go, stay out of it, move on.
(This isn’t a passive aggressive meta comment btw)
assassinate the president… (j/k) 😅 (in Minecraft)
Those who view you as part of the problem will keep doing no matter what. There is no way to gain those people’s favor
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no one gives a shit about you, so you shouldn’t either.
If only history was that simple… I get what you’re saying and generally don’t give a shit about what people say but there are a few countries you could list right now where people would be in grave danger else where in the world. For example if I was Russian and found myself in the Ukraine… if I was Israely and I found myself in Iran…based on most comments in Lemmy… if I was from the US and stepped out my front door haha… but hopefully you understand what I’m saying… life isn’t that simple.
Funny in which direction your examples go.
I thought I blocked you… Guess I’ll try again LMAO
Have you considered being part of the solution?
What do you suggest?
Don’t let “I’m from X” be your whole personality. Get actively involved in changing the trajectory of X if you can. And if you can’t, just be a decent fucking human being, heaven knows we don’t have enough of them to go around.
Also, counterpoint: if people do judge you by your point of origin, put some distance between you and those shallow motherfuckers.
Met, I’m just trying to leave this world a little better than I found it. And to do that it makes no difference where I’m from, how I speak or how I look like. If I get to act contrary to someone’s stereotype to do it, I consider that a plus.
If my country’s politics get brought up, I just state that I do not support the government’s recent actions. (Don’t read that to mean I support my government’s actions at literally any point in history
.)It’s probably a safe assumption that the greatest majority of the rest of the world will be unaware of your existence. Just don’t be a dick to your inner circle and immediate outer circle and you’re probably good.
What if OP is Donald Trump ?
Nailed it LOL
For many people once they leave their home country it becomes very obvious they don’t belong. For example, I left my home country almost 2 years ago and where I’m at now I stick out like a sore thumb. I left my country because it wasn’t someplace that represented who I was. So now that I’m in a new country everyone is aware of my existence.
I mean, the answer is that you simply stop viewing everything through the lense of politics and national identity. If all you do is think about your old country and how it sucks and how you wish people didn’t associate it with you, it will be all you are ready to talk about, and people will associate you with it.
But if you are really interested in electric dirt biking, then you will be the guy who really likes electric dirt bikes. Your former nationality becomes mostly irrelivant.
For example, I am from Florida, known throughout the world as a trashy dumpster fire with some pretty good cuban sandwiches. I can talk about it if needed - but mostly I talk about my hobbies or my plans or my job or my struggles or my friends or random funny bullshit. The most common comment I get is “you don’t seem like someone from Florida”, and my response is “well, I left for a reason”. And then we laugh and the conversation moves on.
everyone is aware of my existence.
that sounds awful, you have my condolences
Listen, American, start by acting like this isn’t the first time you’ve acknowledged the rest of the world exists.
Step 2 is that your first step shouldn’t be going looking to the people being victimized by your countries stupidity for sympathy before you’ve done LITERALLY ANYTHING to address these issues.
Step 3 is realizing America isn’t special, and going back to being an anonymous American online not looking for us to make you feel better about your government.
OP didn’t mention what country they were referring to. You just assumed what you wanted it to be and used it as a vehicle for your hate.
It’s probably correct on the “American” part. Otherwise a cunt.
actively support, volunteer for, and fund what you do believe in, to the extent possible. note that some people will still blame you for what “your” country does, as a means of expressing frustration.
Agree… and this is the path I’m following.
That’s the neat thing - you don’t! For the same reasons that some people in your country will continue to hold their own stubborn beliefs about other people despite all evidence to the contrary, some people in other countries will do the same to you.
I never fit in with my home culture. For me, that’s racist, fascist Americans. Even as a kid I wasn’t accepted by my peers, school admin, and even my own mother. Having grown up under that, and becoming myself despite it all, some of those people (my mother at least) have come around. But honestly, I wouldn’t count on it.
The best you can do is keep being yourself (I know, cliched, but seriously) and live by example. Take it from someone with a lifetime of dealing with this - attempting to convince people doesn’t work. However, those who are open-minded will see you as you are and note you as one of “the good ones.” Instead of trying to change the mind of someone who’s dead set on seeing you as an enemy, focus on the people who already understand that it’s wrong to define a group of demographically-related people by the actions of a few.
