Polish too. I’ve had colleagues explain to me how allowing abortion is actually part of the communist/gay agenda to take over Poland. Dude’s been living in Sweden since the 80s and claims he loves how freeing it was to come here.
First generation left for a reason, second generation are close enough to the first to understand why they left, third generation and up are too far removed from their ancestors to understand why they left and still have to deal with not being considered the same as “true locals”, putting them in an uncomfortable situation where they don’t fit anywhere but all they know is that the country they actually know doesn’t seem to welcome them. They start to idolize the land their ancestors came from even if they never went or never spent enough time there to actually see what it’s like to actually live there.
And that’s how you end up with people in their early twenties leaving European countries to go fight in a third world hell hole where they aren’t welcomed either and they end up needing to be saved by their country of origin…
I think that mindset happens in all diaspora communities. Even people in the US who are like 6 generations away from an European ancestor somehow have a dumbass fascist opinion about European issues, that leftist and immigrants are ruining Europe and Europe was better when their ancestors still lived there. These diaspora want to see their motherland frozen in time and not modernize and progress, since for them it’s a holiday destination and a trip down memory lane and they want to see a quaint civilization stuck doing the old ways.
Some of us knew our ancestors from “the old country” and if you did/do you know how racist they are/were. The guy six generations out doesn’t know those ancestors and thus might lionize them in ways the ones that know their ancestors don’t.
im only second generation and certainly don't think that. How could someone six generations out even know much about their ancestral country. I mean 6 generations living in the US. They would have come over close to the birth of the US.
The joke here is that Germany has a large Turkish population, and presumably it’s easier to be a Turkish nationalist while not actually having to experience any of the issues in Turkey yourself.
It bears mentioning, nationalism is not the same as being a patriot/proud of your country/heritage.
The way I understood this is: Turks living abroad are voting for Erdogan since his policies keep the value of their currency low. Then when they visit home, they can live like kings and queens with their european income. Meaning, it’s easy to be a Turk when you’re not living in Turkey. Hope I got this right?
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