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11-20-2012, 08:09 PM
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Maybe ya talk about Mexico like that because none of ya grew up there. I grew up there and i was amazingly happy. There is a reason why Mexico ranks as one of the happiest country in the world. The world can be ending and Mexico will still party. Like i said before i love the US and i would die to defend it. But i haven't forgotten what Mexico gave me and it gave me a lot. Unlike most of you I'm not ungrateful. I love them both and they are both my homes.
Yea that's probably why. When I came here I was 5 so I really don't have any clear memories of living in Mexico just pictures and stories. It does sound/look like a beautiful place and one day I'd like to visit it but I don't know if I would actually stay and live there. I don't think any of us are being ungrateful. We just feel different about where we were born. Don't get me wrong I love my heritage and would never think of giving it up and I was kidding about giving up my Mexican citizenship I'd like to have two one day and someone told me it is possible. I like to consider myself as a Mexican-American, and hey when it comes to sports I root for both USA and Mexico soccer teams!

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I wouldn't renounce my citizenship for many reasons, one being because I'd love to travel to the Middle East one day and it's a whole lot safer if you have a European passport rather than an American passport.

That said, I feel no connection to my homeland. I don't remember my country at all. I don't remember the island I was born on, and I don't remember any of my family except for my parents and older brother, who are all USCs. Why should I be obligated to "feel a connection" to the country I happened to be born in? I had no say in that. My home country didn't have any influence in making me who I am today. The United States is my home -- as it is yours and just about everyone else's on this forum. I have never pledged allegiance to another flag.
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11-20-2012, 08:31 PM
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Maybe ya talk about Mexico like that because none of ya grew up there. I grew up there and i was amazingly happy. There is a reason why Mexico ranks as one of the happiest country in the world. The world can be ending and Mexico will still party. Like i said before i love the US and i would die to defend it. But i haven't forgotten what Mexico gave me and it gave me a lot. Unlike most of you I'm not ungrateful. I love them both and they are both my homes.
Ungrateful for not feeling any sense of patriotism towards a country for simply being born there? That's like saying someone that does not love a mother who never raised him/her is ungrateful. What a flawed way to cast judgement.
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11-20-2012, 11:40 PM
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Strange enough, I still feel a connection to my birth country. But I came here when I was 8 so yeah...or maybe its just my pride in my heritage. Im mexican.
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11-21-2012, 12:08 AM
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Strange enough, I still feel a connection to my birth country. But I came here when I was 8 so yeah...or maybe its just my pride in my heritage. Im mexican.
I came to this country when I was eight also but I actually still remember a lot about Mexico. I even remember the street where i use to live at and other small details like names of old friends, teachers, etc. So I also still feel a strong connection to Mexico unlike some of the dreamers who were brought here when they were 3 months old.
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11-21-2012, 05:18 AM
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What country are you from?
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11-21-2012, 08:45 PM
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This whole issue is really personal and particular of each person, I see it a whole different way than most of you simply by the fact that I had actual memories of my homeland, I was 10 when I came here. I'm perfectly fine giving "my allegiance" to this country as well as my home country, I don't see any problem with it. I do think though, that some of you, like some Americans, have a simplistic and pedantic idea of what allegiance should be or what it should look like. And to me, it's a problem, a problem that will keep haunting this country's culture until it learns what being a melting pot of cultures really means.

There is no one way to be "American". That's my two cents.
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