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How Europe and communism messed me up - and how the US constitution is unique:
When I just arrived in USA in this phase, current times, I did not understand Americans.
🇺🇸 I did not understand the talk of constitution, the talk of freedom, the expression towards the flag and I did not understand the essence of the country.
Of course there are people who have made it an identity or perhaps even attribute incorrect things to it (both on either side of the spectrum) but my love and UNDERSTANDING for USA grew fast as I was un-doing my Europeness.
📖 To illustrate my family;
my grandmother was a business women in a time where everything was against her. She had cultivated 9 stores (toys and arts) over the nation and worked extremely hard.
😔 The communists took her stores.
After taking the stores they would raid the house bi-weekly and take anything else that she and her husband accumulated.
She died of disbelief with the mantra “they can’t take it just like that right? They must give it back?”.
This was only possible because our nation didn’t have any rules set about what the government is allowed to do and what not.
When the c19 happened, most of European countries closed down to an extent USA can not imagine.
😡 Some countries required a form signed by country daddy that allowed you to do grocery shopping.
The streets were filled with law enforcement that apparently had little problem with handling its own neighbors (I have some funny stories about that) and the country daddy set up an”snitch”-phone line to report if you think your neighbor was doing anything against the c19 guidelines.
Most small business didn’t make it and the compensation or support was none-existent.
Fast forward to me accidentally ending up in USA and actually experiencing a culture shock:
🐴 I am surrounded mostly with redneck or business people - both of which appreciate to be left alone and just want to do their thing, so my europeness got washed out of me real soon.
Finding myself asking daily: can I do this here? And my husband responding “well yeah, this isn’t Europe”.
Finding myself asking questions in regards to how far a country daddy could overreach in extreme scenarios
(reminder, the extreme scenarios that American often speak off is not extreme in Europe nor is it “far away in the past” for the East Block, it’s very alive)
and I am blessed that the husband has the patience to sit me down and express how certain situations are unlikely to happen, or what the path would be for them to happen, in the American system 🇺🇸.
Then there are people who love the idea of oppressive systems. Whether it being communism or country daddy commanding you how to move through normal daily life.
Those people I call weak - but that too is for another day.
📖🇺🇸 So when you ask me why I love the USA - let your answer be found in here.
There is a reason that immigrants from communist countries become extremely patriotic - because what for most people doesn’t even exist in the realm of nightmare, has been the norm where they come from.
💅 And lastly,
The majority of people have no idea about the constitution.
And I would extent this invitation, regardless on where you are on the spectrum, to actually dive into the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the essence of how this all came to be.
Your favorite opinionated legendary AmeriSlav
Everyone loving my American boots.
As the MC on the event - I must represent this most glorious nation!
I woke up at the Airbnb, panic jump, cause dogs and husband weren’t around.
Took a hot sec to realize I’m on the other side of America
by the way.
For every “wow we’re losing America”, I’ll double down on the American culture and pride and gratitude.
Wanna see who’s actually gonna win this?
(Spoiler: it’s me)
This is America ❤️
My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
This right here
This morning I had a super intense bleeding nose, but I don’t dare to blow my nose too hard in fear of it bleeding again.
But I have a stuffy nose.
So I am like; oddly aware of the inside of my nose now.
Like, it’s me and the inside of my right nostrils
BaraQueenbee 💅 AmeriSlav retweeted
This is a solid point.
And chickens are easy to butcher. What does that tell you about the average normie human these days?
It’s scary to see how many people walk in the airport with noise canceling headphones.
My chickens have literal more awareness of their surroundings.
Hey @grok , is the grokbot capable of accumulating a cohesive list of whatever the bandwagon/outrage of the day is, and create me a list of people that I follow that participate and talk about 2 or more of those bandwagons a week?
Can grokbot then unfollow these people for me so I have a clean timeline with only glorious winner attitude instead of crying baby people?
I learned about TSA pre-approval but I have to wait until I get my new greencard until I can apply for that.
Very excited for that.
I don’t do alcohol in general but seeing the amount of alcohol that’s available on airplanes is wild.
Who drinks on a plane???????
I can tell by how people live if they actually believe their own panic or if they just masturbate to the adrenaline and cortisol.
Most of the time it’s the latter indeed
Nearest civilization from our home is 2 hour drive one way.
We have one neighbor about 30 min walk or few min drive from our home.
How do people live in cities like this 🫣
