You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.
Those who view you as part of the problem will keep doing no matter what. There is no way to gain those people’s favor
You don’t. People either understand most people worldwide are disenfranchised or think every citizen of certain countries should be shot. You will not change the opinions of the latter.
haha some of the responses here being proof of that
Worry less about people-pleasing. You will always be seen as part of somebody’s problem. Whether you actually are, or they just see you as such, doesn’t matter much as you almost certainly can’t do anything about it, either way.
It’s probably a safe assumption that the greatest majority of the rest of the world will be unaware of your existence. Just don’t be a dick to your inner circle and immediate outer circle and you’re probably good.
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.
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.
everyone is aware of my existence.
that sounds awful, you have my condolences
Don’t let “I’m from X” be your whole personality. Get actively involved in changing the trajectory of X if you can. And if you can’t, just be a decent fucking human being, heaven knows we don’t have enough of them to go around.
Also, counterpoint: if people do judge you by your point of origin, put some distance between you and those shallow motherfuckers.
Met, I’m just trying to leave this world a little better than I found it. And to do that it makes no difference where I’m from, how I speak or how I look like. If I get to act contrary to someone’s stereotype to do it, I consider that a plus.
If someone doesn’t know a person from a country, YOU aren’t going to live slightly differently to magically force them to understand how anything works.
If you are like me. Stop taking the meds you need to survive and just hope you take a forever nap soon. Use the money saved for a life insurance policy so you can at least give your family enough funds to get out.
Dude, you need to touch some grass
Yeah, situation sucks right now but the world has seen lots worse before. Things will get better
Don’t take up space online defending yourself as “one of the good ones”, or saying not all people from your country are like that.
Don’t take up space online replying to content critical of your country by saying how ashamed you are to be from your country, or how sorry you are.
Strangers online don’t know you. If you truly believe you are not part of the problem you should be able to rationalize negative comments about people in your country as generalizations and/or venting and therefore not directed at you personally. There is no need to correct them. There is no need to make sure they know you are not part of the problem. That does not help them, it only helps you. Let it go, stay out of it, move on.
(This isn’t a passive aggressive meta comment btw)
actively support, volunteer for, and fund what you do believe in, to the extent possible. note that some people will still blame you for what “your” country does, as a means of expressing frustration.
Agree… and this is the path I’m following.
If my country’s politics get brought up, I just state that I do not support the government’s recent actions. (Don’t read that to mean I support my government’s actions at literally any point in history
.)You cannot escape generalizations. Case in point: “rest of the world.” There is no such thing. So the best you can aspire to is the subordinate clause apostille. “X is Iranian but fled from the mullahs.” “Y is American but a Sanders type socialist.” I don’t have any idea why these two nationalities came into my head first.
Find your subordinate clause and live it. Actions speak louder than Insta posts.
Have you considered being part of the solution?
What do you suggest?
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Doing nothing about it invites judgement
