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I've lived outside my country of nationality for years at a time. I've realized that I probably feel Scandinavian first and foremost, my nationality coming second to that.

My primary identity is Dravidian, and more specifically, Tamilian. Rather than Indian.

I am a meat popsicle

I identify with Norwegian and western european liberal values. I believe in free speech, democratic values, science, press freedom, human rights, unity, being compassionate, a strong welfare state, equality, womens rights, lgbtqia+ rights. I also have a sense of feeling that all europeans are my peers and that we are a collective. When Russia attacked Ukraine, it felt as if they in some way also attacked a close neighbour, a friend and our way of life.

I’m a special snowflake and I don’t really identify with people in any particular area. Though I guess I do know my tribe when I meet them. But we don’t really have a name. Intellectual hippies maybe.

If I had to pick one then probably my neighborhood is how I would identify.

I identify mostly with my country (Brazil). I honestly identify more with a somewhat local football team (soccer team, for the americans) than with my state lol.

I feel connected to my city, my region, the EU and Germany in that order. Which is how it's supposed to be I guess, except that EU and Germany are swapped for some facist reasons

I am disabled, and a retro computer nerd.

Because frankly? I haven't been proud of America since 9/11 and nothing my family or the people around me have said or done have helped me to not feel shame.

Though I'm from the Netherlands, my father had been living in France for fifteen years now (and we spent ten years in that area renovating the house).

So I consider France to be my second fatherland.

Like a medieval peasant, I'm living now less than a mile from where I was born. The US is too big to feel culturally attached to it, but my city, yeah, I am very "from here". Like when I was a kid we'd wander around the ghost town of a weekend downtown, and as I grew up the city became populated and revitalized, it grew up with me.

In another country I usually say Florida, and if it's a Spanish speaking country then people start speaking to me in Spanish.

I feel a deep connection to the place I was born. I have heritage here.

In my 20s I moved around a lot, lived in other states, other countries.

I am a Californian. My flag is the flag of the California Republic.

Unfortunately, my state sees fit to subsidize a bunch of conservative states that otherwise would have failed already.

I am European (but currently living in Asia). I don't identify with my country of birth. However, I do feel connected to the Franco-Alemannic culture space that I grew up in. The languages, literature, arts and crafts, architecture, food, music etc. are way more important to me than the colour of my passport or the madhouse that is politics.

I'm divided between my IRL country and Tamriel.

I was born in PRC, immigrated to the US. I'm a current US Citizen derived from my mother's naturalization. I identify as an American... because I grew up here, and lived longer than I ever did in China. Most of my memories are in the US.

...but this administration really want to make me get stuck in an airport, because um... checks news... yeah, not sure if my Citizenship is gonna last long under this pseudo-fascist regime.

PRC automatically revoked my citizenship already, so no going back. Job market in China is horrible, 1.4 Billion(?) People competing for jobs... hard for even find a job... and there aren't many parks like the US have, there aren't as many trees, at least in Guangzhou, felt like some urban hell.

So um... if fascists revoke my citizenship... I'm gonna become a documentary/movie like that other story of the person that waa stuck in an airport, y'all 'bouta see me on a wikipedia page! 🙃

I really like the concept of "Citizen of Earth", but nobody in the world share that idea so...

I guess I'm stuck with being "American" for the time being... Or maybe Philadelphian? I mean... I've lived here like a decade so...

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(I don't even know what's the point of these identifiers...)

Despite being cishet somehow it’d be LGBT-dominated and 80% about gaming like everywhere I find myself lol

I mean it! I keep finding myself in queer communities and I legitimately don’t know why lol

I've lived Connecticut, New Jesey, Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee. There is nothing I can call myself other than American.

Obama once said "No party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism." I'll be one of the patriots fighting to bring us back from the brink. American AF 🤘

I don't particularly identify with any nation or region. I suppose I am a citizen of earth?

I don't identify with either my country of birth (where I lived until I was 19) or the country I currently reside in. Of course I have a strong influence from both, especially where I grew up, and I find it's easier for me to understand the culture there but that doesn't mean I resonate or identify with it.

I've lived in 5 different regions of the country. I definitely feel like I'm an 'American'

Both? So the best way to put it is I identify with my hometown and my state, identify less with my nation without totally "not" identifying with it, and identify most strongly with the land I came from before then.

I'd probably identify myself as a hikikomori. I've had zero meaningful offline connections for more than a decade, and at this moment, I haven’t set foot outside my apartment not even once for almost a year (although there are far more serious reasons for this than just my personality). In the future, if there will be an opportunity, I'd like to move to Asia as a digital nomad working remotely. I don’t expect to make any irl connections there either, but I’d be happy to immerse myself walking around oriental slums, parks, shrines, seaside and enjoying the local cuisine.

I'm definitely American, but, I do not feel connected to the redneck MAGA region I live in.

I'm from Arkansas, US. I identify more with my small town than with my state or nation. I also identify as a southerner, but somewhat reluctantly.

In times like these, I repeat the mantra: "At least you're not in Mississippi."

Country — I moved around too much when I was younger to identify with anything else.