I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.
I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.
I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.