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Being Born Into The Wrong Country/Culture?

Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:01 pm
Posted by 75247
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:01 pm
The thread title says it all. Without making this topic political, our society in recent years has focused on people who believe they were born into the wrong gender. You also have people who believe they were born into the wrong time period. But what about people who believe they were born into the wrong country and/or culture?

This thread is not meant to bash the U.S. in any way. Obviously most of us here have been blessed to have been born in the U.S. as there are so many other terrible places any of us could have been born. I am also glad I have the mother I have (my father, we butt heads a lot, but overall I could have a worse father) as I wouldn't trade my mom for any other mom in the world.

With that said I do feel like I was born into the wrong country/culture. Let's be honest, the U.S. is a country built to favor people who are bold and are extroverted. As an introvert it has always been hard for me to live in an extroverted country. As a child I was very introverted and shy and had few friends. Even as an adult I don't have many close friends and while I am able to pretend to be an extrovert at work, at my heart I am still an introvert. I find myself drawn to Asian countries where introversion is more respected, people in general live slower paced less materialistic lives and there isn't the constant division (race/gender/class/sexual orientation) that we see here in the U.S.

What about you? Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong country and/or culture? For those (and I'm sure it's the majority here) who feel like the U.S. is the country they were meant to be born in, were you born in the right state/region or do you wish you had been born in a different state/region?
This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:02 pm
Posted by Nguyener
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:02 pm to
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This is a hell of a first post ever on TD.

We’re going deep on the OT tonight.

America is the best county on earth even on it’s bad days and I wouldn’t have wanted to be born anywhere else on earth.
This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:05 pm
Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:03 pm to
I was born a poor black child.
Posted by csorre1
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People from Dallas are weird.
Posted by thelawnwranglers
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:04 pm to
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was born a poor black child.


This pizza in a cup put the old pizza in a cup out of business
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Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:05 pm to
Im very polite, think football needs an extra player and love donuts
Posted by LeMarteau
Hoover, AL (B.R. native)
Member since Mar 2008
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:05 pm to
I have a great fondness for other cultures (could easily live in France or Spain) but I don’t feel as though a ‘mistake’ was made.
Posted by James11111
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Member since Jul 2020
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:07 pm to
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Being Born Into The Wrong Country/Culture?


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75247


Give it up. You aren't Frisco material.



This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:08 pm
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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154711 posts
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:07 pm to
I was born in Saginaw, Michigan. I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay. My dad was a poor, hard working Saginaw fisherman. Too many times he came home with too little pay.
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:09 pm to
I’m a pirate, 200 years too late.


Maybe more like 250
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Posted by Alyosha
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10468 posts
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:11 pm to
Yes, I’d live in England the rest of my life if I could. Fond memories, friends, and quality of life.
This post was edited on 6/11/21 at 7:12 pm
Posted by GeauxldMember
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:12 pm to
Do you identify as an Asian male or an Asian female? I’ll hang up and listen…
Posted by East Coast Band
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:12 pm to
I think my wife was born in the wrong socioeconomic class.
She thinks she should have been obe if the 1%-ers.
Posted by 75247
Member since Jun 2021
19 posts
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:12 pm to
I guess for me I've honestly felt like the U.S. has never been the best country for me. The U.S., for all its amazing aspects, is an extrovert dominated country that doesn't value almost any type of tradition and is largely a throw away consumer society. That's not to say other countries are perfect, no country is without its negatives, but I have over the last few years realized that very little of who I am as a person aligns with the U.S.

As long as my parents are alive I'll never leave the U.S., but I feel like as soon as they are gone there won't be anything keeping me here.
Posted by TigerBait1971
PTC GA
Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:13 pm to
Born in the right place, just the wrong time.

I totally get why older people become so cynical.
Posted by Lester Earl
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:13 pm to
Hi Oweo
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:15 pm to
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I guess for me I've honestly felt like the U.S. has never been the best country for me. The U.S., for all its amazing aspects, is an extrovert dominated country that doesn't value almost any type of tradition and is largely a throw away consumer society.
what country would be a better fit
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
35863 posts
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:15 pm to
Like the president's son? Or like when someone gets kicked in the head by a horse and starts speaking with a different accent or different language?
Posted by 75247
Member since Jun 2021
19 posts
Posted on 6/11/21 at 7:17 pm to
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Born in the right place, just the wrong time.

I totally get why older people become so cynical.


Agreed on understanding why older people become cynical. More and more I find myself becoming cynical as well. Time frame I wish I had been born in the late 50s or early 60s so I would've been old enough to have experienced the great music in the 70s and 80s in person.

I guess I feel like I was born in the wrong country and at the wrong time.
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