Man, I wish my grandma was more liberal rather than being a catty, conservative old Catholic bitch with a stick up her ass. Wanna switch? (She's also dead, but I figure that makes for awesome one-sided conversation.)
I don't think Canada deals in that home/mother/fatherland jazz. We're just... here. You might live here, your home might be somewhere else... Who cares?
Normally I don't care but it was just like...her VEHEMENT DECLARATION that the United States could never be synonymous with "homeland" for her when by definition that is exactly what it is.
Well, if she doesn't think of it as homeland... *shrugs* She doesn't. Isn't it a thing about Greek culture anyways where Greece always is the homeland/what have you (for instance, where gals who aren't in Greece are expected to go back and find a nice Greek boy to marry, etc) anyway?
Kinda sorta, there's a certain amount of pride for Greece, but my thing is that if she isn't willing to call the land where she was born and grew up her homeland then why the fuck ISN'T she moving to live in Greece instead, if she hates it here so much?
...Just because she doesn't want to call it her homeland doesn't necessarily mean she hates it, dude. I know there are a ton of people living here who still consider India/China/Korea/whatever their homelands - and we're talking second gen kids here, born and raised - but wouldn't consider moving there because they love it here. Sure, go to visit, but not go to live.
Hell, I don't even call Canada my homeland, and wouldn't, but what else do I have that could possibly be referred to as it...? XD Ireland? Shit, I dunno.
I think it's just in the context of the rest of what she says about America, too. This woman is one of those crazy radical left-wingers who is always complaining that the government is ruining America and we're turning into a fascist nation.
Loving a country doesn't mean you have to like the government and what they do - you can downright hate them; in fact, if she thinks they're ruining the country I'm pretty sure she's saying it out of a love for the country.
How is complaining about politicians saying anything about the country itself? Does one automatically have to love the government in order to be patriotic?
(She's also dead, but I figure that makes for awesome one-sided conversation.)
I don't think Canada deals in that home/mother/fatherland jazz. We're just... here. You might live here, your home might be somewhere else... Who cares?
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Normally I don't care but it was just like...her VEHEMENT DECLARATION that the United States could never be synonymous with "homeland" for her when by definition that is exactly what it is.
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Well, if she doesn't think of it as homeland... *shrugs* She doesn't. Isn't it a thing about Greek culture anyways where Greece always is the homeland/what have you (for instance, where gals who aren't in Greece are expected to go back and find a nice Greek boy to marry, etc) anyway?
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Hell, I don't even call Canada my homeland, and wouldn't, but what else do I have that could possibly be referred to as it...? XD Ireland? Shit, I dunno.
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How is complaining about politicians saying anything about the country itself? Does one automatically have to love the government in order to be patriotic?
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