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Originally Posted by jayswin

I find that Canadians that live in America now seem to have a much rosier take on rural America than born Americans. I think some of it is the psychological effect of people leaving places for new places and feeling pressure to lay claim to a new area, where they end up defending it more than the locals.

Originally Posted by jayswin

I read this somewhere at some point and really want to find it again. The idea is that we're biologically determined to define and defend the land and culture with which we identify (are born with). People that stay in one place do this naturally with where they were born, where as there is a struggle with human beings that move as they feel they have left something, but still have the desire to define and defend so they end up over exerting a definition and defense of their new home.

Originally Posted by jayswin

This unfortunately is exactly how it works. It's so unnerving, if not excepted at this point.

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