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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]… do you ever think you should move to Europe to “go back where you came from”?

I have started to feel this way. I feel like no matter how much I work to be inclusive and tolerant, there’s no getting around the fact that my presence as a white person in North America is the result of colonization, slavery, and racism. All things I fundamentally oppose.

Sometimes I think it would be better for everyone, including me, if I returned with my family to my ancestral roots (Germany or Norway). Not just because I feel the US really belongs to Native people and the descendants of enslaved people who built the country, but because I wonder if living where my family lived for thousands of years before immigrating to the US in the early 20th century would make me feel like I belonged more.

I just feel like I’m not supposed to be here. It wasn’t my choice to come but maybe it could be my choice to leave.

Does anyone else feel this way?[/quote]

It's kind of cute that you think that you will escape racism in Germany or Norway. Germany hates the Turks, Syrians, Irais, and Afghans who became refugees there.  My family was one of them and we were told everyday what a drain we were on the Germans and how they couldn't wait for us to get out.    One of my colleagues is Eritrean and she ended up in Norway with a bunch of Syrians and Afghans. They were also made to feel very unwelcome and urged everyday to find another country to take them.  When your ancestors left Germany and Norway in the early 20th C, both countries were primarily white and had only class issues.   You will be returning to very different countries.[/quote]

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