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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Absolutely not. I am a first generation immigrant and I never felt like this applies to me or my children. I still have foreign passport and can go back if I won't to, but I love it here! My family on mother's side come from slaves too, so I understand the hardship.

OP, can you just go to your homecountry for extended vacation to see if you belong there?
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Op is fourth-generation with a very mixed background.  There is no “home country”.  [/quote]

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