I would actually like to know if you:
- Were born in a country
- Grew up in a country
- Went to school in a country
As mentioned in (1:47), practically swimming in a dataset that largely (considering pop culture and the internet) belonged to what you might call a "national" dataset. That you become part of that nation?
If the argument is, that these people can be both... then again, how can the be both? If they never grew up in the dataset that forms your opinions and behaviors of the second dataset?
... When I listen to Trevor, I dare to say that the only part how they can and have to be both is by looking a skin color? Just like the examples that he give to people on the extreme right, that deny people their nationality because of the skin colour not being part of the "norm" in the past because of a racial (and/or traditional) interpretation of national identity. Which is, btw, also the argument that he himself ends with elevating that kind of behavior to the norm. Where a person that has a skin color is put into a collection of people just because of how they look, negating where they grew up and which culture they have formed their identity in.
This idea of a multi-national identity, by people that NEVER were attached to the identity that they are leeching on too because of roots, often leads to dissenchantment exactly because of that reason. If you read up on people that have Turkish or Moroccon roots which are 3th, and by now even 4th, generation immigrants are often heartbreaking. It's the group of people that Trevor criticizes in his last part AND that he agrees earlier that part of a far-right perception on identity earlier, that makes these people feel unwanted in the nation that they grow up in. Then they leech on to another identity, the one that they perceive themselves a part off because of their roots. But once they go to Morocco or Turkey, they quickly find out that they are just as much immigrants over there then that they feel inside the nation that they should be a part of because of their upbringing. Exactly because they don't share these cultural bonds.
So yeah... I don't know, I think the issue is more complex. And I personally think that people that never had a connection to a nation except for some background that is hidden 2, 3 or 4 generations ago, are lieing to themselves if they perceive themselves part of that group. That also counts for Americans celebrating Saint Patricks' day and "feel" Irish. But when we talk about identity, rationality leaves the room at the beginning of the conversation. I don't think that a lot of Irish would ever perceive an American that has grown up from an American family that has roots in Ireland 4-5-6 generations ago, as an "Irish" person.
