Aizen
Absolute Sovereign
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Interesting thread. This comes down to your family culture and how much you can remember who you are. Other races go through the same thing too in terms of whether they identify with their homeland or if they forsake it. For example, some Portuguese will come to America and insist they are Portuguese. Then their children will insist they are Portuguese-American and so forth. Yet others will just come to America and immediately say, "I'm white. I'm American, that's it." Same thing with certain Asians. Some Chinese and Chinese-Americans will always hold onto their Chinese side to say "I'm Chinese" or "I'm Asian." Then others say, "Forget that, I'm just an American."
So basically, if you believe in "the melting pot," you throw away your old self and become a new, mainstream version that matches what everybody else is. Some people believe in "mainstreaming" and others do not. If a black person is very clear on rejecting their ties to Africa, there isn't anything you can do about it. If you can still connect to your home, your link wasn't broken. You'll see yourself differently and your roots isn't some vague concept like "I'm probably from somewhere in the Eastern part of the continent or the West." If you know where you are from or you did your DNA tests, you'll know the country and the tribe. Many blacks who do this find out they are not West African or they are part West African but also have roots from the center of the continent and the East.
If you look at trends, there was a time in which throwing away all the "old culture" was the thing to do. Now some people are trying to find their roots again and connect to old culture. A lot of this "New Age" stuff is really Old World culture, religion and philosophy being repackaged in a New World form. Yet those books are selling like hot cakes now and you'll find people trying to give more depth to their lives by embracing something they might have been indifferent to in the past (or outright rejected it and laughed at it). If you have your roots, you don't have to "go back" in some attempt to find yourself and discover who you are because you are already there - you already know.
A very old man once said, "In New York, a long time ago, nobody wanted to be just white. They were Italians and Polish and French. People didn't just wholesale buy into assimilation. They didn't want to blend into each other." Compare that to now in which people often want to be unique, yet also at the same time be "normal," which is everybody acting the same. So there's maybe a little conflict and contradiction there.
TLDR: It's your choice how you view yourself. But being so on the nationalism tip is something relatively new as in the last 50-60 years. If you know where you are from but do not care, that's a personal decision. Most people who know seem to at least care a little bit. Your roots are there regardless if you claim it or not. So again, your call. I see a potential divide coming as both sides are going in their own direction. If you care about your roots, it may be hard to build and trust those who forsake their roots or simply don't care. It's all about choices and beliefs.
Interesting thread. This comes down to your family culture and how much you can remember who you are. Other races go through the same thing too in terms of whether they identify with their homeland or if they forsake it. For example, some Portuguese will come to America and insist they are Portuguese. Then their children will insist they are Portuguese-American and so forth. Yet others will just come to America and immediately say, "I'm white. I'm American, that's it." Same thing with certain Asians. Some Chinese and Chinese-Americans will always hold onto their Chinese side to say "I'm Chinese" or "I'm Asian." Then others say, "Forget that, I'm just an American."
So basically, if you believe in "the melting pot," you throw away your old self and become a new, mainstream version that matches what everybody else is. Some people believe in "mainstreaming" and others do not. If a black person is very clear on rejecting their ties to Africa, there isn't anything you can do about it. If you can still connect to your home, your link wasn't broken. You'll see yourself differently and your roots isn't some vague concept like "I'm probably from somewhere in the Eastern part of the continent or the West." If you know where you are from or you did your DNA tests, you'll know the country and the tribe. Many blacks who do this find out they are not West African or they are part West African but also have roots from the center of the continent and the East.
If you look at trends, there was a time in which throwing away all the "old culture" was the thing to do. Now some people are trying to find their roots again and connect to old culture. A lot of this "New Age" stuff is really Old World culture, religion and philosophy being repackaged in a New World form. Yet those books are selling like hot cakes now and you'll find people trying to give more depth to their lives by embracing something they might have been indifferent to in the past (or outright rejected it and laughed at it). If you have your roots, you don't have to "go back" in some attempt to find yourself and discover who you are because you are already there - you already know.
A very old man once said, "In New York, a long time ago, nobody wanted to be just white. They were Italians and Polish and French. People didn't just wholesale buy into assimilation. They didn't want to blend into each other." Compare that to now in which people often want to be unique, yet also at the same time be "normal," which is everybody acting the same. So there's maybe a little conflict and contradiction there.
TLDR: It's your choice how you view yourself. But being so on the nationalism tip is something relatively new as in the last 50-60 years. If you know where you are from but do not care, that's a personal decision. Most people who know seem to at least care a little bit. Your roots are there regardless if you claim it or not. So again, your call. I see a potential divide coming as both sides are going in their own direction. If you care about your roots, it may be hard to build and trust those who forsake their roots or simply don't care. It's all about choices and beliefs.
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...Amerikkka is your slave colony that we were forced to tidy up for subhumans, this isn't your home,language,name,culture or roots of any kind whatsoever..........Your stupidity knows no bounds........
People without a home.
