Do you identify yourself more with your country, state, or city? I’d say I’m more of a Chicagoan than an American. I can’t exactly say why, but perhaps it has to do with that I don’t completely agree with our current presidential administration. But I don’t always agree with Mayor Daley either.
I’m more Chicagoan than American, probably because I haven’t traveled overseas, so I never really have existed outside the context of America. Whereas with Chicago, I can definitely contrast that more against other cities.
And I never thought of myself as an Illinoisian.
i’m a displaced Chicagoan living in the burbs. A lot of America is uneducated, uncultured, and short-sighted. The urban settings tend to be the opposite. I proud to be a native Chicagoan. Our country desperately needs more culture. The U.S. of A. could learn a few things from cities like New York and Chicago.
Excellent question. I would have to rank my associations, with closest at top: 1. Californian 2. San Franciscan (where I lived most of my adult life) 3. Ventura County-an (CA) (where I live now and where both sides of my family are from) 4. American 5. Bostonian (where I was born, where I have a lot of family, and where the Red Sox are) 6. Arizonan (where I grew up) 7. Earthling 8. Dane (I am 1/4 Danish) 9. New Yorker (where I went to high school) 10. Berkelelyite (CA) (where I went to college for 2 years)
I think of myself as an American first because I’ve lived in so many different places. Plus both of my parents are ex military….
San Diegan… coz it sounds tight… and lived here all my life