Overall, 39% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be American in the most recent poll.

Meanwhile, only 18% of those aged 18-34 said the same, compared to 40% of those aged 35-54 and 50% of those 55 and over.

18% is still too high. As Obama’s pastor said, God damn America! Americans have very little to be proud of at this point.

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    a year ago

    I understand this assumption, however I should mention I am brown. I was born into a Sikh family and there is no denying my ethnicity (I have no issues showing my face if needed).

    I suppose my experience would be different to someone else. If it’s any consolation, the areas I had apartments in over the years was Fayetteville, Bentonville, and Rogers/Little Flock.

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        a year ago

        I can understand your concern, though my first wife was from Gentry, AR and I lived there as well (I often forget that as she is an ex wife). It is possible for people to have different experiences to the rhetoric.

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      They’re not evil, you’re right. But that’s a lot of casual racism where at I’m, especially after/during the Trump presidency.

      My mom was talking to me late at night after everyone went to sleep and cornered me until I cried about how my Pakistani friends are going to come kill me in my sleep. A few weeks after that she was going on about the “war on Christmas” and she’d love to be wished a happy holiday for one she didn’t celebrate and we shouldn’t say happy holidays anymore.

      My in-laws have also said more racist things since then, including my father-in-law “joking” about how he needed to hide the tools so Mexicans don’t steal them.

      Not evil by any means, but my mom’s thing was way messed up. There are a lot more examples, but people are definitely more overt now.