Just ask.
All this making people feeling awkward about asking is a fucking psyop.
What's the problem with asking someone where they come from
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OK. Where are you from?
My ancestors where born in what is now Czech Republik
So if I kick you out of a club you are a bounced Czech?
I am not Czech, you asked where my ANCESTORS came from.
But this Region is special, it was (last 100 years:)
-Czech
-German (3rd Reich)
-Checho-Slovakian (USSR)
-now it's Czech again
- and soon it just will be
'a region in the EUSSR'
But yeah, for you it would be probably close enough, never mind the border's like 40 km, so you bounced a czech.
It's ok, they are good people
Culturally we are not too different to czechs, all the language etc was forced anyway by govs in the last 100 years as you can imagine.
I don't believe in nation states btw, I believe in People.
That's pretty cool. I appreciate the nuance and explanation. This gets into national identity and cultural identity. Do you identify with the culture more than the country?
100%
In Germany we hat like 100 small regions competing with each other, everyone wanting to have the best University, the best Opera, the best money(!) and so on.
Then these regions became unified into a big grey soup with centraliced everything, language money education
This "country" just destroyed regional culture, regional wealth and competition.
I don't like countries&states much, they want you as tax cattle and cannon fodder ('conscription').
Whoa. You had 100 regions competing in culture but you were forced into war and dumbness? Sounds like the Middle Ages but for the sake of a monoculture. I see why you don't like centralization
How different are the czechs vs the slovacs? I have zero context
Yup.
Makes the most natural introduction conversation not possible, so it keeps people strangers.
Especially in the US, where most of the people have immigration roots.
That’s the point though.
Estrange the foreigner and keep them foreign.
Then do shady shit because the natives have no idea what the foreigners are doing, such as the H1B abusing Indians.
Every single one of them needs to be deported.
Why?
My ancestors washed ashore. No immigration papers were generated
If that happened recently, you’re going back
Haha 1799. I think I'm good. My wife on the other hand...
That said, if they’re Indians or illegals they need to get the fuck out