I feel so far away from home right now but my question is to get to the point, when was the last time you felt a true sense of your nationality?...

I always feel italian!

Only when I leave the country.

Or when I talk to you.

CarrieMpls said:

When you talk to me?! Im not that English am I?!

when i get told 'OMG that was sooo american ' by someone.

JDInteractive said:

You are, but it's also when you put down america so much that I feel a need to point out all the good qualities. They do exist.
And it's not that I don't agree with you, cause I do. I just get defensive sometimes.

i always feel pround of my background but the last time i felt like screaming it out loud is when.... ITALIA WON THE WORLD CUP!!!!! CAMPIONE DEL MONDO SIAMO NOI!!!!!

CarrieMpls said:

I dont put down America that much. Only when it needs to be put down as it has bullyish tendencies.

I guess I have never felt like I was a certain nationality really. My dad is quite Italian and my mom is Irish, Dutch and German. I was born and raised in American though I do not say that proudly.

tznekbsbfrvr said:

You fancy Cannavaro dont you? Im not surprised, even I do.

jerseykrs said:

i like feeling ITALIANS too!!

Shanti1 said:

I never felt any sense of nationality till I traveled outside the country. I'm Finnish and German by heritage, and maybe I feel a bit on the Finn side cause I was closer to those grandparents, but it's a very, very watered down version of course. But I never felt "American" until I had another context to place it in.
Since America is so geographically big, you have more a sense of where you come from in what state or what city, but you're rarely faced with what it feels to be "american" cause we can't easily and quickly travel outside of that the way, say Europeans can more quickly experience a different country and culture.
It's a shame, really.

Always

CarrieMpls said:

Well maybe when I travel to Italy I will feel a sense of nationality.
You are right about living here in America.

Shanti1 said:

You will. For certain.

I would love to go to Europe and be a "fat, stupid American"

JDInteractive said:

oh yea? Cannavaro!!! the man is HOTT!!

CarrieMpls said:

Well everyone says I am in no way Italian..I think I might relate to my mom's heritage more. I guess I need to step out of the US more and find out.

I feel Mexican-American everyday.

depends... how long has bush been in office?
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cborgman said:

Too f'ing long...
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Shanti1 said:

however long it's been... that was the last time i felt a true sense of my nationality.

Being Puerto Rican,
I sometimes long for that land mass where my people are considered indigenous.
The Bronx.

Paradisekiss03 said:

Me too, my skin color is a dead give away. But hey, I don't have to tan.

JDInteractive said:

Being American? Only when I leave the country, explain or run into cultural differences here, run into people from other countries or cringe at something our idiot president is doing. (So, everyday)

Being Italian-American or Hungarian-American? All the time. I felt it in a really odd way when I saw, on my sister's death certificate, Hungarian/Italian under "Ancestry".

AnckSuNamun said:

like it.

when U2 performed at the Super Bowl halftime following 9/11.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...q08ouOwiqQ
[Edited 4/19/07 19:00pm]

wait, did you mean like ethnic-nationality?

As The U.S. goes on a worldwide killing spree I feel a sense of my nationality in that other people simply view me as one of us