Motherland or Birthplace?

[Alexandro]

Would you say all the members on this forum who keep vouching all day about a place they don't live in are not well integrated into the host country?

Like the chicanos? Yeah, pretty much. I believe those users act that way because they probably have faced a lot of discrimination for their ethnicity or race so they lean on their parent's identity, but without actually living in the country they feel the need to compensate by acting like the most Latino people in existence.

[Incal]

Like the chicanos? Yeah, pretty much. I believe those users act that way because they probably have faced a lot of discrimination for their ethnicity or race so they lean on their parent's identity, but without actually living in the country they feel the need to compensate by acting like the most Latino people in existence.

Compensate. You have a valid point.

[Mortimer]

Hard to answer. I was born in Serbia and raised in Austria. But my motherland is I assume India if you define motherland as point of origination of a ethnic group biologically. The only thing I do Indian is eating at indian restaurants and I read the Mahabharata, watch some Bollywood movies, most of my culture is serbian in Austria Im too recent to really have adopted fully into the culture/traditions/customs. If I had kids maybe they would, if I they are born here and I give them german names, and teach them german and german culture. Biologically they still would not be german, but they would have accustomed into german culture.

[Latinus]

In my case, I always felt just Brazilian, nobody had/have any attachment to Italy and Iberia among my family members.

My paternal grandpa, for example, as far I as know, he never felt attached to the culture of his parents (Portuguese mom from Trás-Os-Montes and Italian father from Lombardy).

I only became interested in these cultural/geneological/phenotypical stuffs in my teens, for the wrong reasons, but it's interesting to see the diference between hyphenated mentality vs fully assimilated.

And keep in mind that many Brazilians are of 100% colonial stock, so they feel just Brazilians, since they don't even know where their ancestors come from.

[HelloGuys]

I am not a diaspora but my vote will be birthplace x1000000 times and beyond that

[Latinus]

I am not a diaspora...

[HelloGuys]

Jaja well, there are people who has a different flag from their birthplace, and new users could read this thread and posts in the future; so I felt in the obligation to emphasize my situation

[Alexandro]

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[Blondie]

That's complex. My birthplace Budapest is the first what is a different place inside Hungary and what i love very much, after that Transdanubia (West Hungary), the third is Germany, and the four is other parts of Hungary.

[Cristiano viejo]

In my case it is the same but for sure homeland is the only that matters. A negro or a Moroccan could born here, I will never consider them Spanish. And like me, many more think so. Birthplace is circumstantial.

Both are important to me, but more so my birthplace. Also, i feel more strongly about Spain, than i do Ireland or Germany. I think because I have more Spanish blood and my father and grandparents shared the Spanish culture with me a lot growing up... The food, the things they brought from there, and of course the language, even though i do not speak it. I loved listening to my grandmother I think if i went to Spain, i'd feel a strong connection. But I am a US citizen and it definitely feels like home here.

Well said, baby