I don’t like travelling, so I chose to develop an attachment to the Indigenous country whose stolen land I live on. That way I can learn their culture and language from home.
Why I moved from China to the US for university
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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 hours ago
StillAlive@piefed.world 4 hours ago
Me and pre-2016 USA fr.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Really? Because even before Trump, things were sliding into authoritarianism around here pretty quick. Maybe pre-9/11 USA? But honestly, that was our biggest period of economic exploitation of developing countries. As long as I’ve been alive, I cannot think of a single time my home country has been a good guy on the international stage.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 3 hours ago
The US has amazing nature. I wanted to do the Appalachian trail, but current visa reqs stop me from ever going to the USA. :(
Sabin10@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, as a Canadian I’m pretty glad I don’t live south of the border. Things are a little better up here but the cost of living to income ratio is worse so the US does have that going for them.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
And not just the real famous ones! I want to see a white guy in the US just completely obsessed and fanboying over the Gambia.
DillDough@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
White guy in the US here, I’m obsessed with Suriname. Most people I mention it to don’t even know it exists, and like half of them will still walk away from the conversation thinking I’m talking about either Africa or Asia even after I explicitly mention the continent and population.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Taiwan my beloved.
medem@lemmy.wtf 2 hours ago
Why is this true? Any psychologist here that could briefly explain this effect/phenomenon/watchacallit?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Paris Syndrome.
medem@lemmy.wtf 48 minutes ago
Doesn’t look like it’s the same thing tbh.
KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I’ve reached the point in this cycle where I begin to realize that I should never go there - lest my dreams are crushed by the awful reality we live in rn.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Hiroshi Suzuki has entered the chat
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
Me learning Mandarin for now fucking reason whatsoever: