Same as me then! And not just dual citizenship but approximately the same amount of time spent in each of the two countries. How am I supposed to decide where I'm from?! 😄
Добрый день , Алёна! Очень волнуюсь за тебя и хочу, чтобы каждый день был для тебя добрым ! Очень непростой жизненный путь ты выбрала, полный рисков и опасностей! Но это твой выбор! Удачи тебе! Храни тебя Бог !
Such an amazing road!! The canyons, the nature, the rivers.... and the sad reality of gold mining not just in Ecuador but also Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Perú and most likely others.
And the conflicting feeling of wanting to explore but not wanting to get in trouble for doing so... I follow a lot of travel groups, and there are constant discussions whether this or that area is safe to explore off the beaten path...
@ aye, you should be careful with it. I'm not a valid source for that kind of issues in Ecuador since I don'k know how things are downthere but still... be careful; sometimes a lovely smile might not enough. But as always, wish you all the best on your journey 😁👍👍
Привет, Алёнка! Начало сегодняшнего путешествия немного минорное. Но в дальнейшем, благодаря прекрасной природе, живописным водопадам и очередным мостам 😊 всё встало на свои места! А последние километры поездки подарили тебе красивый каньон и красочный закат! Меня удивляет то, что мотопосады зачастую находятся в храмах. У нас это просто невозможно (я думаю). А вообще, Алёна, тебе нужно почаще отдыхать, ты совсем не бережешь себя, слишком много себя нагружаешь. Согласна? Всего доброго! ❤
Для меня мотопоезда в храме была огромным удивлением, пока своими глазами не увидела, не поверила бы 😄 Отдыхать нужно обязательно, пытаюсь себя заставлять))) только вот шило покоя не дает)))
Adro a estrada em si, mesmo sem as paisagens exuberantes em alguns trechos, a paz que transmite não tem preço. Agora, eu acho que deveria ter descansado mais um dia antes de continuar a cortar as estradas... Passeios com cachoeiras, banhos, sol, caminhada, cansam demais o corpo, sempre bom ter um dia pra descansar a mais.
Привет, Алёна! Сегодня у тебя похоже был второй день мостов. Красивые виды, жалко дымка чёткость картинки портила. У нас такое бывает когда где-то горят леса, и солнце тогда в каком-то полутумане. В Эквадоре такое марево возможно из-за жары и влажности, я думаю. Столько красивых рек сегодня было. Вода правда мутная, почвы наверно такие, а может и золотодобыча влияет. И конечно, береги себя. Безопасность должна быть в приоритете. Удачи! 🥰🥰🥰
Hola mi amiga Aleona, te envian saludos los amigos desde Bogota. Hoy te veo algo cansada, suele ocurrir , la ruta genera desgaste. Interesante el tema de cambio en el clima al otro lado de la linea ecuatorial sera diferente, pero igual una gran aventura. un abrazo desde Bogota, Hoy he disfrutado del cafe y de tu aventura.
Yo tengo un concepto de "moto-guayabo", es cuando pasas un día espectacular en la moto, con muchas aventuras y emociones, pero al otro día te levantas con un guayabo total, como si hubieras tomado, pero lo único que has hecho era andar en moto. Así me sentí ese día 😅
A beautiful part of the world. The worst thing about the mines is the workers' pay. The bosses get rich and the officials get rich from bribes. So it has always been. Sending love 💜
I've been reading quite a bit on the topic and seems like in the illegal mining the workers actually earn pretty well (some areas the currency is actually gold, and not USD or whatever). The risks are very high though...
I feel you on the nationality front. I technically have a German passport and have been living there for a few years now, but I don't even speak German all that well after spending most of my life travelling and otherwise bouncing around, and working exclusively in other languages even here. Much less understand the culture or associate with it. It gets exhausting, quickly, especially when people (usually those who've never left their home region) inevitably get aggressive about it one way or another. My son, ironically, feels the same about his Moroccan passport and heritage. I mean, honestly, it's the 21st century. Why do people still act like nationality, sexual orientation, and gender have anything to do with who a person is, or make any and all of the above their sole identity? It's ridiculous.
Thank you for sharing your story! I've met a lot of mixed/multinational people with the same issue, lot's of people who don't have a short answer to this stupid question and at the same time don't want to go into details with a random stranger.
Wonderful video! After reading all the comments it looks like many folks also picked up on 'where from' like I did too. Perhaps you can factor this into your answer. Is the question a legitimate query about who you are based on where you come from, or, is it just polite filler conversation? Knowing (or even guessing) at the motive could make the answer much easier - either way actually. If your perception is 'polite filler' just rattle off some place you've been that pops into your head at that moment : -). Frankly it doesn't matter a hoot what the answer is anyway right? If there is a follow up you can fill in with something like "I've been there and loved the culture and traditions so have adopted the region as my home', or what ever motivated the answer. If on the other hand it seems like a more meaningful engagement you can give a more personal response. A thought. I suppose here in the US we get a simpler, watered down version of this because we are a country of 50 states that have a small measure of autonomy and identity. I was born in California, grew up in Minnesota, spent some years in Nebraska, many more in Maryland, etc... Where am I from? The question here often assumes the answer to be a state... I've never really thought about why I answer the way I do, now I know. Thanks for helping me sort out my identity! LoL. Not the same for sure, but kinda rhymes with your quandary. P.S. While I respect the opinion of some here that say "it doesn't matter', I don't agree with that assertion. While it adds or subtracts nothing from your value as a person, I am of the mind that geography can, and often does shape who you are and how you think about some things.
I would guess that 99% of the time people ask it just out of curiosity. Like “where do they produce this kind of weird animals?”. And yeah, I’ve tried all sorts of answers to see if there’s an easy one. At some point I was saying I was from Cuba 🫣 I don’t suffer too badly when asked about it 2-3 times a day but sometimes it’s 20-30 times a day and it’s just too much 🤣🤣🤣 I’m considering printing it on a t-shirt 🤣🤣
In Portugal we call that sky, "Sky of Lead" and yes, make us grim (?) sometimes. Motoposada seems quite nice but being in a church is funny. About the question "where are you from", sorry Aleona, but I think a different way. I know that being Russian nowadays is not (stupidly) easy, but if someone judged me negatively because I was Russian, I did not need them as friends. Are you going to meet them again? In short, I would answer, "I am Russian". This would filter at once who are the good or bad "friends". And if the "subsequent question was "are you pro your President ", I would just say , "I am pro peace, period". I, myself, am pro Russia, but I want peace Note - believe me. It is more difficult for Western European to be pro Russia than a. Russian. And I am not losing family or friends because of my stance. If I lose, I don't care at all
It's not about "being Russian" not being cool, it's about me not considering myself belonging to a specific nationality. Why is it okay to be agnostic in religion but not ok to be that regarding nationality?
@alyoka.travels ,😊, if you sincerely feel that way, who am I to judge you? Let us say that it is one more thing to add to Aleona's idiosyncrasies 😂. Just looking forward to the next one🤗
I actually believe that a lot of people who have dual citizenship and have lived in more than one country think the same way 😄 sometimes we get together and bitch about how annoying this question is 🤣
😂 Aleona, you are not talking about your friends in Denmark, who in the video are saying "chiuuuu (type "don't say anyone"), "we are Russians" 😂😂😂 If my memory does not fail😊 But I understand the dual citizenship dilemma 👍
Hahaha good memory, funny enough a lot of my friends in Denmark are “multi-background”. In that video on of the girls is a quarter Russian but has never been to Russia and doesn’t speak the language but she’s also a quarter Spanish and has lived in Spain and does speak Spanish. The other girl was born in Russia and moved to Denmark about 10 years ago. Another friend who appears in that video was born in Ukraine but has lived in Denmark for over 20 years. And another one was born in Belarus and has also lived in Denmark for 20+ years. A friend who was born in Portugal and lived in Denmark 20+, another with the same story but born in Scotland, another story but born in Greenland. Also a few friends who were born in Denmark but lived abroad for many years. There’s even a friend with whom we always speak Spanish, and it’s very funny how people look at us when we enter a supermarket and suddenly switch to speaking perfect Danish 🤣🤣 I’ve got soo many of these stories ☺️
Charly Sinewan was or is in Ecuador and there is the Bulgarian rider motorcycle adventures now in Colombia planning to travel South. Quite a lot of famous TH-cam bikers in South America with Africa off limits due to mpox.
When people ask where I'm from, I might reply, "Everywhere ... " or "earth ..." or where I've been last night or last week or last month or name a few countries where I've been. If I name sufficient number, they'll get bored listening/processing all that ... and fagetaboutit ! If they get upity about the answer, I might say, "Grouping people by nationality is 'racist'" ... and see if THAT shuts them up.
I can survive this question two-three times a day but at an event with a few hundreds of participants, you'll be asked this question 50+ times at least... and then it gets painful. I know that people do it without any bad intentions, out of pure curiosity, but it's still painful to go through this all day long.
@@alyoka.travels We feel pain, recognizing the unassailable, disingenuous motivation underlying that question which is rooted in anything but innocent curiosity. Each person has a natural (not national) right to be assessed and judged individually - on their own merits; national or other categorization/grouping is intellectually lazy, ignorant, inherently racist slander and unjust. It is not true 'justice' to be held responsible and condemned for others' (e.g. fellow countrymens' or ancestors') actions/choices. In the USA, a melting pot of the world's nations, many, when asked about their ancestors' origin, will reply, "I am American." or "I'm from this or that State."; inherent in 'the American Dream' is freedom from one's past injustices. Asking where one's parents or grandparents came from is taken as a rude invasion of privacy. Similarly, brand buying reflects intellectual laziness or inability to evaluate each product on its own merits! To back such questions off, one might try asking from where they, their parents or grandparents hailed ... and see if they're smart enough to get the message.
Very much my point of view, and it’s kind of “funny” that most of the time people ask it out of pure curiosity but then unintentionally make subconscious conclusions based on your answer. Usually I just don’t want to “waste time” on this answer but I still haven’t found a quick and easy answer that wouldn’t lead to further discussions. There are almost always follow up questions no matter what I say. The best answer so far is “I’m Russian/Danish and live in Colombia”. That usually confuses the person who asked the question enough to just answer with something like “oh, interesting”. And I’m happy to leave it at that 😅
@@alyoka.travels > " people ask it out of pure curiosity but then unintentionally make subconscious conclusions" < E X A C T L Y ... revealing their SUB-conscious racism. Replying with a complex answer affords you a 'litmus test' of their intellectual processing ability ... allowing you to quickly decide whether (or not) to spend (waste?) further time on/with them ... or just put you on your guard with them. At any rate, no snappy answer is going to change them, quickly. I was taught to 'be above it all ... and lead by example".
That’s the reason I brought it up in the video, I would like to bring some light on the topic and make people question the necessity of even asking this and also say that it’s not always a nice way to start a conversation, sometimes it’s the exact opposite.
Where are you from? - Russia Done. If you give an answer that requires an explanation you don't wanna give, why do you take that on people? Besides, it's the most polite question when anybody sees a foreigner... where are u from, what's your story, etc.
It's just as impolite as asking about religion, sexual preferences or anything else personal / controversial. A simple question would be "Where were you born?", that can only have one answer. The question "where are you from?" is way more complicated than that.
@alyoka.travels I'm sorry, but here in latinamerica there's no point of comparison between those questions. Religion and sexual preferences are way out of scope here. And I could even say for the majority of people here there's no difference between "where are you from" and "where were you born". A pointless complication. Maybe things are like that from 'where you are', but not here. If people ask that, don't take that as impolite, here it's not. You're the one complicating simple a kind things.
It's exactly the same. You can be "born" as a Christian but switch to buddhism as you grow older. And yeah, I've met plenty of gay people in Latin America. Person's birthplace is not necessarily his/her nationality - that's a fact.
My issue is not about it being cool or not, it's about where do you think you belong, and there are people like myself who belong nowhere and everywhere at the same time. And it's kind of uncomfortable to be squeezed into a box, to which only a part of you belongs.
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Salud y Saludos jojo desde EC......Adelant bien viaje.......1💪✌️💪✌️🗺🌄👋
Awesome video! I like what you said in the beginning about where you are from. Seems to be a lot of that these days. Really nice video. Best!
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks this way!
@@alyoka.travels I have dual citizenship. So I kind of smile at these stereotypes! ❤️
Same as me then! And not just dual citizenship but approximately the same amount of time spent in each of the two countries. How am I supposed to decide where I'm from?! 😄
❤️🥰
@@alyoka.travels it really doesn’t matter, it’s what is inside. Isn’t it?
Добрый день , Алёна! Очень волнуюсь за тебя и хочу, чтобы каждый день был для тебя добрым ! Очень непростой жизненный путь ты выбрала, полный рисков и опасностей! Но это твой выбор! Удачи тебе! Храни тебя Бог !
Спасибо))) не волнуйся, все хорошо)
Really nice ending. Lots of interesting facts 😊
Thank you! 😊
Such an amazing road!! The canyons, the nature, the rivers.... and the sad reality of gold mining not just in Ecuador but also Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Perú and most likely others.
And the conflicting feeling of wanting to explore but not wanting to get in trouble for doing so... I follow a lot of travel groups, and there are constant discussions whether this or that area is safe to explore off the beaten path...
@ aye, you should be careful with it. I'm not a valid source for that kind of issues in Ecuador since I don'k know how things are downthere but still... be careful; sometimes a lovely smile might not enough. But as always, wish you all the best on your journey 😁👍👍
Thank you! 💛
Привет, Алёнка! Начало сегодняшнего путешествия немного минорное. Но в дальнейшем, благодаря прекрасной природе, живописным водопадам и очередным мостам 😊 всё встало на свои места! А последние километры поездки подарили тебе красивый каньон и красочный закат!
Меня удивляет то, что мотопосады зачастую находятся в храмах. У нас это просто невозможно (я думаю). А вообще, Алёна, тебе нужно почаще отдыхать, ты совсем не бережешь себя, слишком много себя нагружаешь. Согласна? Всего доброго! ❤
Для меня мотопоезда в храме была огромным удивлением, пока своими глазами не увидела, не поверила бы 😄 Отдыхать нужно обязательно, пытаюсь себя заставлять))) только вот шило покоя не дает)))
@@alyoka.travels
Да, шило у тебя от природы!
О, да)) Шило - штука врожденная, и если досталось - мучайся с ним всю жизнь 🤣🤣
Adro a estrada em si, mesmo sem as paisagens exuberantes em alguns trechos, a paz que transmite não tem preço.
Agora, eu acho que deveria ter descansado mais um dia antes de continuar a cortar as estradas... Passeios com cachoeiras, banhos, sol, caminhada, cansam demais o corpo, sempre bom ter um dia pra descansar a mais.
I would’ve had a rest day for sure, if I didn’t have an agreement to meet some other riders in Loja that day. I’m a very responsible person 🫣😄
Привет, Алёна! Сегодня у тебя похоже был второй день мостов. Красивые виды, жалко дымка чёткость картинки портила. У нас такое бывает когда где-то горят леса, и солнце тогда в каком-то полутумане. В Эквадоре такое марево возможно из-за жары и влажности, я думаю. Столько красивых рек сегодня было. Вода правда мутная, почвы наверно такие, а может и золотодобыча влияет. И конечно, береги себя. Безопасность должна быть в приоритете. Удачи! 🥰🥰🥰
Как я потом выяснила, эта дымка была как раз из-за пожаров :(
As always, beautiful ❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
Hola mi amiga Aleona, te envian saludos los amigos desde Bogota. Hoy te veo algo cansada, suele ocurrir , la ruta genera desgaste. Interesante el tema de cambio en el clima al otro lado de la linea ecuatorial sera diferente, pero igual una gran aventura. un abrazo desde Bogota, Hoy he disfrutado del cafe y de tu aventura.
Yo tengo un concepto de "moto-guayabo", es cuando pasas un día espectacular en la moto, con muchas aventuras y emociones, pero al otro día te levantas con un guayabo total, como si hubieras tomado, pero lo único que has hecho era andar en moto. Así me sentí ese día 😅
Коровы в городе,мотопосады в церкви,что там у вас происходит??😂 Но видео как всегда огонь,Алена ❤❤❤
Хахаха точно! Параллельная вселенная - все вверх тормашками 😄
A beautiful part of the world. The worst thing about the mines is the workers' pay. The bosses get rich and the officials get rich from bribes. So it has always been. Sending love 💜
I've been reading quite a bit on the topic and seems like in the illegal mining the workers actually earn pretty well (some areas the currency is actually gold, and not USD or whatever). The risks are very high though...
@@alyoka.travels Oh, interesting. Thanks.
👍ALEONA....THANKS for being a part of my Life !
Love your Voice and commentary ! ..Keep SAFE and Love from Australia 🏍🦘🇦🇺🌹
I’m so happy that my videos can be a part of your life. Sending love back! 💛
@alyoka.travels 🏍🦘🇦🇺🌹
Sun set view vert beautiful & your voice so lovely
Thank you, I love sunset rides! 😊
I feel you on the nationality front. I technically have a German passport and have been living there for a few years now, but I don't even speak German all that well after spending most of my life travelling and otherwise bouncing around, and working exclusively in other languages even here. Much less understand the culture or associate with it. It gets exhausting, quickly, especially when people (usually those who've never left their home region) inevitably get aggressive about it one way or another. My son, ironically, feels the same about his Moroccan passport and heritage. I mean, honestly, it's the 21st century. Why do people still act like nationality, sexual orientation, and gender have anything to do with who a person is, or make any and all of the above their sole identity? It's ridiculous.
Thank you for sharing your story! I've met a lot of mixed/multinational people with the same issue, lot's of people who don't have a short answer to this stupid question and at the same time don't want to go into details with a random stranger.
Wonderful video! After reading all the comments it looks like many folks also picked up on 'where from' like I did too. Perhaps you can factor this into your answer. Is the question a legitimate query about who you are based on where you come from, or, is it just polite filler conversation? Knowing (or even guessing) at the motive could make the answer much easier - either way actually. If your perception is 'polite filler' just rattle off some place you've been that pops into your head at that moment : -). Frankly it doesn't matter a hoot what the answer is anyway right? If there is a follow up you can fill in with something like "I've been there and loved the culture and traditions so have adopted the region as my home', or what ever motivated the answer. If on the other hand it seems like a more meaningful engagement you can give a more personal response. A thought.
I suppose here in the US we get a simpler, watered down version of this because we are a country of 50 states that have a small measure of autonomy and identity. I was born in California, grew up in Minnesota, spent some years in Nebraska, many more in Maryland, etc... Where am I from? The question here often assumes the answer to be a state... I've never really thought about why I answer the way I do, now I know. Thanks for helping me sort out my identity! LoL. Not the same for sure, but kinda rhymes with your quandary.
P.S. While I respect the opinion of some here that say "it doesn't matter', I don't agree with that assertion. While it adds or subtracts nothing from your value as a person, I am of the mind that geography can, and often does shape who you are and how you think about some things.
I would guess that 99% of the time people ask it just out of curiosity. Like “where do they produce this kind of weird animals?”.
And yeah, I’ve tried all sorts of answers to see if there’s an easy one. At some point I was saying I was from Cuba 🫣
I don’t suffer too badly when asked about it 2-3 times a day but sometimes it’s 20-30 times a day and it’s just too much 🤣🤣🤣 I’m considering printing it on a t-shirt 🤣🤣
@@alyoka.travels weird animal indeed! Best ever : -).
In Portugal we call that sky, "Sky of Lead" and yes, make us grim (?) sometimes.
Motoposada seems quite nice but being in a church is funny.
About the question "where are you from", sorry Aleona, but I think a different way. I know that being Russian nowadays is not (stupidly) easy, but if someone judged me negatively because I was Russian, I did not need them as friends. Are you going to meet them again?
In short, I would answer, "I am Russian". This would filter at once who are the good or bad "friends". And if the "subsequent question was "are you pro your President ", I would just say , "I am pro peace, period".
I, myself, am pro Russia, but I want peace
Note - believe me. It is more difficult for Western European to be pro Russia than a. Russian. And I am not losing family or friends because of my stance. If I lose, I don't care at all
It's not about "being Russian" not being cool, it's about me not considering myself belonging to a specific nationality. Why is it okay to be agnostic in religion but not ok to be that regarding nationality?
@alyoka.travels ,😊, if you sincerely feel that way, who am I to judge you? Let us say that it is one more thing to add to Aleona's idiosyncrasies 😂.
Just looking forward to the next one🤗
I actually believe that a lot of people who have dual citizenship and have lived in more than one country think the same way 😄 sometimes we get together and bitch about how annoying this question is 🤣
😂 Aleona, you are not talking about your friends in Denmark, who in the video are saying "chiuuuu (type "don't say anyone"), "we are Russians" 😂😂😂
If my memory does not fail😊
But I understand the dual citizenship dilemma 👍
Hahaha good memory, funny enough a lot of my friends in Denmark are “multi-background”. In that video on of the girls is a quarter Russian but has never been to Russia and doesn’t speak the language but she’s also a quarter Spanish and has lived in Spain and does speak Spanish. The other girl was born in Russia and moved to Denmark about 10 years ago. Another friend who appears in that video was born in Ukraine but has lived in Denmark for over 20 years. And another one was born in Belarus and has also lived in Denmark for 20+ years. A friend who was born in Portugal and lived in Denmark 20+, another with the same story but born in Scotland, another story but born in Greenland. Also a few friends who were born in Denmark but lived abroad for many years. There’s even a friend with whom we always speak Spanish, and it’s very funny how people look at us when we enter a supermarket and suddenly switch to speaking perfect Danish 🤣🤣 I’ve got soo many of these stories ☺️
Charly Sinewan was or is in Ecuador and there is the Bulgarian rider motorcycle adventures now in Colombia planning to travel South. Quite a lot of famous TH-cam bikers in South America with Africa off limits due to mpox.
Honestly, I think South America (or rather, the stretch Alaska - Ushuaia) has always been a dream for any rider - remember the Che Guevara's book?
When people ask where I'm from, I might reply, "Everywhere ... " or "earth ..." or where I've been last night or last week or last month or name a few countries where I've been. If I name sufficient number, they'll get bored listening/processing all that ... and fagetaboutit ! If they get upity about the answer, I might say, "Grouping people by nationality is 'racist'" ... and see if THAT shuts them up.
I can survive this question two-three times a day but at an event with a few hundreds of participants, you'll be asked this question 50+ times at least... and then it gets painful. I know that people do it without any bad intentions, out of pure curiosity, but it's still painful to go through this all day long.
@@alyoka.travels We feel pain, recognizing the unassailable, disingenuous motivation underlying that question which is rooted in anything but innocent curiosity. Each person has a natural (not national) right to be assessed and judged individually - on their own merits; national or other categorization/grouping is intellectually lazy, ignorant, inherently racist slander and unjust. It is not true 'justice' to be held responsible and condemned for others' (e.g. fellow countrymens' or ancestors') actions/choices.
In the USA, a melting pot of the world's nations, many, when asked about their ancestors' origin, will reply, "I am American." or "I'm from this or that State."; inherent in 'the American Dream' is freedom from one's past injustices. Asking where one's parents or grandparents came from is taken as a rude invasion of privacy. Similarly, brand buying reflects intellectual laziness or inability to evaluate each product on its own merits!
To back such questions off, one might try asking from where they, their parents or grandparents hailed ... and see if they're smart enough to get the message.
Very much my point of view, and it’s kind of “funny” that most of the time people ask it out of pure curiosity but then unintentionally make subconscious conclusions based on your answer. Usually I just don’t want to “waste time” on this answer but I still haven’t found a quick and easy answer that wouldn’t lead to further discussions. There are almost always follow up questions no matter what I say. The best answer so far is “I’m Russian/Danish and live in Colombia”. That usually confuses the person who asked the question enough to just answer with something like “oh, interesting”. And I’m happy to leave it at that 😅
@@alyoka.travels > " people ask it out of pure curiosity but then unintentionally make subconscious conclusions" <
E X A C T L Y ... revealing their SUB-conscious racism.
Replying with a complex answer affords you a 'litmus test' of their intellectual processing ability ... allowing you to quickly decide whether (or not) to spend (waste?) further time on/with them ... or just put you on your guard with them.
At any rate, no snappy answer is going to change them, quickly. I was taught to 'be above it all ... and lead by example".
That’s the reason I brought it up in the video, I would like to bring some light on the topic and make people question the necessity of even asking this and also say that it’s not always a nice way to start a conversation, sometimes it’s the exact opposite.
Where are you from?
- Russia
Done.
If you give an answer that requires an explanation you don't wanna give, why do you take that on people?
Besides, it's the most polite question when anybody sees a foreigner... where are u from, what's your story, etc.
It's just as impolite as asking about religion, sexual preferences or anything else personal / controversial. A simple question would be "Where were you born?", that can only have one answer. The question "where are you from?" is way more complicated than that.
@alyoka.travels I'm sorry, but here in latinamerica there's no point of comparison between those questions.
Religion and sexual preferences are way out of scope here.
And I could even say for the majority of people here there's no difference between "where are you from" and "where were you born". A pointless complication.
Maybe things are like that from 'where you are', but not here.
If people ask that, don't take that as impolite, here it's not. You're the one complicating simple a kind things.
It's exactly the same. You can be "born" as a Christian but switch to buddhism as you grow older. And yeah, I've met plenty of gay people in Latin America. Person's birthplace is not necessarily his/her nationality - that's a fact.
Because of the war, it's unfortunately not cool to be Russian anymore...😢😢😢
My issue is not about it being cool or not, it's about where do you think you belong, and there are people like myself who belong nowhere and everywhere at the same time. And it's kind of uncomfortable to be squeezed into a box, to which only a part of you belongs.