Per Sjoblom
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- Jan 3, 2018
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We are wary about those US citizens who chose to name themselves after a whole continent for some unknown reason.
I have never used the "us Americans". The reason I became a citizen was basically practical. I used to have a green card first and you have to renew them every 10th year and it is quite expensive so after I renewed it once I thought maybe I should become a citizen. My 2 children are born here.That and I want to be able to vote like the famous: "No taxation without representation" cry from the tax revolters in the 18th century when US came into being (I refrain from calling them revolutionaries) . I mean I like it here, in general people in the US are quite nice although the last 4 years has made me rethink some of that, there are more racists than I thought it was. The people I have met as friends are generous and open and in general I get along pretty well with most people. US has changed me as well, mostly to the better but I am also a bit more aggressive. I am much more frank than I was in Sweden, for instance I was doing laundry and a woman came in without a mask, I told her "I see that you forgot your mask, please go and put it on". "I will not let you ne in here without it", Back in Sweden I might just have avoided her and and keep grumbling in my mind. I remember reading a Swedish journalist that was working for Swedish TV in France and he wrote that in Sweden, we clench our fists in our pockets, in France people have old furniture in the attic that can be used for roadblocks when fighting the police.