AM I REALLY A MAN WITH TWO NATIONS ?
I'm always pround to say I am a citizen of two nations, I love being Brazilian, i love being Italian, but these days i started thinking about my situation ... and now i wonder if i really belong to two countries !
Of course, i have two passports that confirm this story, but in my opinion what really matters is what you feel inside !
As i said at the beggining i am pround of my two nations ... but what am i exactly pround of?
I started to figure out i know a very few about these countries ! I don't know well their history, i don't know the story behind their flags, i don't even know their authem !!!!
Even people that don't have a good memory remember the most important dates of their countries, and know their authem by heart and maybe they know also a bit of their countries' litterature. I know a little bit of Italian litterature because i study it at school, while i know nothing about brazilian's. The only thing i know related to Brazil is its language, portuguese. I can also speak italian, but i can't tell i know it because of my patriotism, the only reason i know italian is because living in Rome, it is very usefull to everyday's life.
From this point of view i feel i belong much more to another country, let's see if you can guess it from its flag:
Yeah, it's UK. I love the United Kingdom specially England. But while I don't know much about Brazil or Italy, I know pretty much about the United kingdom (hopefully my future home !!)
First of all i can speak their language, i've been studying english since i was a child and now i can speak much better than my classmates at school.
Starting this year, i'm studying its litterature, and i'm loving it. It's so interesting that i try to buy all the books i can (in my school book we have only some parts of the stories, while i wanna know them completely).
I'm so in love with London (the city that stole my heart) that i dream one day i will live there.
The truth is i love these 3 countries (Italy, Brazil and UK) and i feel i belong to each of them; I know a very few about Italy and Brazil and that's a shame ! For this reason i'm trying to fix it (first of all learning them authem). I know a lot of UK for being a foreign person, but since i feel i belong to UK too i have to know as much as every british person knows.
One day i hope i will be able to say i belong to these 3 countries without feeling ashamed of knowing such a few about them,
Chris.
