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Friend: "That's because you care more about being a New Yorker, and a Yankee,* than being an American."
Me: "Um...yeah. Because those are distinctions that actually mean something."
(this came about after hearing too many people make "American" into some kind of monolith where "all Americans do x." National identity, even in a small country, is too variable to make that kind of a lazy justification, especially about a particular thought or behavior )
*as East Coasters see it, not as the world sees the term. Vastly different thing, and I'm not actually a yankee by those terms, but 80% of my family is, so that's my cultural inclusion
Me: "Um...yeah. Because those are distinctions that actually mean something."
(this came about after hearing too many people make "American" into some kind of monolith where "all Americans do x." National identity, even in a small country, is too variable to make that kind of a lazy justification, especially about a particular thought or behavior )
*as East Coasters see it, not as the world sees the term. Vastly different thing, and I'm not actually a yankee by those terms, but 80% of my family is, so that's my cultural inclusion
