Your complaints are entitled and self-centered. Nobody owes you or your brother a visa. Nor are we responsible for the visa policy of every country on Earth.
Your positive remarks are equally shallow and self-centered. You're focused on the material standard of living you now enjoy and what Americans do or have done for you personally. It's nice that you enjoy those things but shows no particular connection to the country or its people.
If this is your idea of what it looks like to appreciate my home country, better to simply keep it to yourself.
"My home country." Those things which you can proudly proclaim are "yours" are those things that you have worked hard for, those things that you would fight for, those things that you have shown a real appreciation for through your own action. If this is your "home country" that means, unlike Pouya, you never had to choose if this country meant more to you than your loved ones, than starvation, than slavery. You didn't choose it, even your birth was your mother's act. Yet, you feel this country is yours... that is real entitlement. This country isn't great because of its specific dirt and it doesn't consist of a distinct people. It is great because it was built on the idea that men must be able to pursue their own happiness free from tyranny. Meaning, this country was built by people like Pouya, for people like Pouya. This is his country, and it is moreso his country because he chose it to be his home.
Of course I feel entitled, because I am. I am both legally and morally entitled. I don't need to do anything to become an American because I was born as one. I inherited the life and the country of my parents and ancestors. There is nothing else I could possibly be.
If the author is an American citizen, then he is also entitled to live in America, but he was not entitled to move to America or become an American. Nobody is entitled to do that or to move to any other country. The piece seems to lack awareness of that fact.
You're a great American Pouya. Thank you for coming. You enrich us with your spirit.
I really needed this shot of optimism. Thank you!
Your complaints are entitled and self-centered. Nobody owes you or your brother a visa. Nor are we responsible for the visa policy of every country on Earth.
Your positive remarks are equally shallow and self-centered. You're focused on the material standard of living you now enjoy and what Americans do or have done for you personally. It's nice that you enjoy those things but shows no particular connection to the country or its people.
If this is your idea of what it looks like to appreciate my home country, better to simply keep it to yourself.
"My home country." Those things which you can proudly proclaim are "yours" are those things that you have worked hard for, those things that you would fight for, those things that you have shown a real appreciation for through your own action. If this is your "home country" that means, unlike Pouya, you never had to choose if this country meant more to you than your loved ones, than starvation, than slavery. You didn't choose it, even your birth was your mother's act. Yet, you feel this country is yours... that is real entitlement. This country isn't great because of its specific dirt and it doesn't consist of a distinct people. It is great because it was built on the idea that men must be able to pursue their own happiness free from tyranny. Meaning, this country was built by people like Pouya, for people like Pouya. This is his country, and it is moreso his country because he chose it to be his home.
Of course I feel entitled, because I am. I am both legally and morally entitled. I don't need to do anything to become an American because I was born as one. I inherited the life and the country of my parents and ancestors. There is nothing else I could possibly be.
If the author is an American citizen, then he is also entitled to live in America, but he was not entitled to move to America or become an American. Nobody is entitled to do that or to move to any other country. The piece seems to lack awareness of that fact.