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To the Americans here, if you're given a choice of immigrating to another country, anywhere you desire, and never coming back, would you take it? I was wondering why everyone around me kept reassuring me that things will get better after a few years, but then I realized they were either whites, church-goers, or ๐ supporters.
It'd be tough for me. Even outside of the context of the current environment here, I've always told other people from the same background as me that I could never really see myself moving back to my parents home country. Even though their country is a short plane ride away, my dad would make yearly trips and leave us here, unlike how other kids I knew who would go every summer. So I don't really have a deep connection and even as an adult I've never really felt the desire to reconnect. And it has its own history seeped in the exploitation and blood of POC so its like... I'd be trading the US for a nation that, under the influence of the US, hasn't had a vastly different history aside from being exploited by the US all the same.
If I absolutely saw myself in a situation where I had no choice at all then the only place I could think of is Cuba.
I think things are bad globally, minus a few countries, and there's no actual escaping. But if things get really bad I'm going to my parents country.
I'm going to the DPRK the first chance I get, become an american "defector" and tell everyone about how the president is a pedophile who kidnaps people to foreign countries (wait I forgot to lie)
Being a materialist and realizing that poverty is a war to rob the working class peoples of their current and future lives has disabused any liberal notion of "giving up" anything.
My parents were immigrants, I'll likely be an immigrant as well, best spend my life building socialism with the skills Ive gained in the West.
The smart answer is "Hell yes".
I am not smart. I am territorial. I get very attached to what I know and love and do not want to leave it. I am probably autistic.
I had asked myself this question in 2015 and 2016 because Trump was so scary. The wave of genocidal white supremacy he was riding looked so powerful, and I thought that staying here might mean death. I had a friend in Canada urging me to move up with her. But I thought about it, and the answer I arrived at was basically, "this is my home, this is my land. The insects I love will not be somewhere else. The birds I love will not be somewhere else. The trees I love will not be somewhere else. The people I love will not be somewhere else. Sure there's probably other good things elsewhere, but it's not what I've known my whole life. This is my home, and if I'm given a choice between dying to stay here and living somewhere else, I will die here, and I'll take as many of the fuckers who want to expel or kill me with me when they come for me."
A ridiculous sentiment for the child of two people who are halfway across the world from their homelands. But I'm not my parents. I'm me. And even though my life has fallen apart here, this is still my stance. I just don't want to leave.
this is how i wish i felt but unfortunately i don't feel compelled to this place at all. probably because i wasn't born here and despite numerous attempts i have no friends or real family here, no genuine connections, only painful memories and unrewarded struggle. but i always find myself punching the air wishing i did have a reason to want to stay, if there was just something to give me some ounce of belonging or hope
nothing wrong with wanting to leave tbh. youre living in the great satan for goodness sake.
yea honestly it's so funny to me that for example people will call for the complete destruction of israel but then go on to say the US is somehow different and can be reformed... have the same energy for both, the US is arguably worse in every way, you just don't want "your" "home" destroyed and your treats and familiarities taken away.
i don't want any part to do with here anymore but child-me still emotionally dealing with the residual rejection gaslighting from just wanting to make friends and be accepted by those around me. i'm sure once i'm out that will subside
Yes, I definitely would. Things will only get worse.
The only reason I don't is family and logistics, like work, etc.
Absolutely ICE is only gonna get more and more aggressive and I fear for my family. I very much doubt liberals will ever do anything meaningful about ICE/border patrol, ideal scenario would be we somehow lived in china but more realistically prob mexico since with the new president things seems to be getting better there at least.
yes, i mean i'm about to try that (not so legally and HOPEFULLY never coming back) myself very very soon so we will see!
I don't think things will get better, but I don't think I would leave anyway. Fighting is both necessary and I love doing it.