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Anyone have any experience with getting dual citizenship (US adding EU)? I'm looking at the "Slovak by Descent" program as a bit of a lark, and was wondering if there were any pitfalls (aside from the obvious "no longer able to apply for jobs that need a US security clearance"). Seems to me to be all upside, no downside.
This isn't likely to be persuasive to someone who doesn't feel it in their bones, but I don't think you should hedge when it comes to the land of your fathers, and I don't want to live in a nation surrounded by such hedgers. A class of trans-national elites with no particular loyalties to hearth and home is a bad thing in and of itself, and you shouldn't participate in its propagation.
I recognize this is probably at least partially a result of a character flaw of mine, but I'm viscerally disgusted by the idea of dual-nationals and think we should amend the constitution to explicitly prohibit American citizens from being citizens of any other nation.
It makes travel significantly more convenient depending on where you're going. A proper third-world passport is actually more useful than EU for this, since countries who have beef with one tend to have beef with both. And even if you're purely a US citizen you need two passports to travel to both Israel and much of the Middle East. Also worth doing if you're wealthy and have a second home outside the US, tourist visa limits can get inconvenient and citizenship can make dealing with homeownership bureaucracy easier.
Am I one of the only people out there that thinks traveling just fucking sucks ass? Straight up. I mean yeah, I’ve always wanted to visit the morbid, desolate and forbidden stay away zones your mother would never want you to go to as a sense of adventure, but not as a way to marvel and mull over the fact that they have toilets and take a shit “just like we do!,” all the way in China. I mean it’s more or less “like this” almost anywhere you go (where you don’t want to put your life at risk).
Bruh I'm going to Syria in three weeks. Loved my time in Iraq and Ukraine. You don't need to tell me about how libtard boomer/consoomer "wow they're just like us but they have the same food I can get in a restaurant at home" travel sucks, I'd rather blow my brains out than set foot on a cruise ship or take instagram stories in Bali. But if you have a serious interest in history, or in adventure, there's no substitute for travel. And usually countries off the beaten path are the nicest ones, or at least they're bad in interesting and likeable ways. Protip: if you're going to an otherwise boring country, dip through dive bars until you find an extroverted local who speaks English and roll from there.
Traveling can give you a sense of perspective on the world like nothing else. Have you ever seen me deny that? It’s a tragedy of anyone thoughtful to look at two YouTuber’s like serpentza and laowhy86 who basically walked out of China with essentially all the same western prejudices they walked in with. Nathan Rich is a guy who clearly harbors a hidden persecution complex and dislike of his own society for not appreciating him, but at least to his credit he’s had the ability to understand and appreciate a different perspective on life than the one he grew up with. Experience is only what you ‘take’ from it. It isn’t where you ‘go’. I don’t dislike “travel,” I dislike “travelers” more.
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