everyone is aware of my existence.
that sounds awful, you have my condolences
For many people once they leave their home country it becomes very obvious they don’t belong. For example, I left my home country almost 2 years ago and where I’m at now I stick out like a sore thumb. I left my country because it wasn’t someplace that represented who I was. So now that I’m in a new country everyone is aware of my existence.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
blarghly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I mean, the answer is that you simply stop viewing everything through the lense of politics and national identity. If all you do is think about your old country and how it sucks and how you wish people didn’t associate it with you, it will be all you are ready to talk about, and people will associate you with it.
But if you are really interested in electric dirt biking, then you will be the guy who really likes electric dirt bikes. Your former nationality becomes mostly irrelivant.
For example, I am from Florida, known throughout the world as a trashy dumpster fire with some pretty good cuban sandwiches. I can talk about it if needed - but mostly I talk about my hobbies or my plans or my job or my struggles or my friends or random funny bullshit. The most common comment I get is “you don’t seem like someone from Florida”, and my response is “well, I left for a reason”. And then we laugh and the conversation moves on.