As someone else said here once, where you stand depends on where you sit.
Not knowing your nationality or at least a general location where you're from, it's hard to discern positions you take. That weakens your position because you may have a hidden ax to grind. So people often discount what you say and ignore them off hand. Would you be revealing much if you said you were American or a southerner or westerner or Canadian or whatever? I doubt if anyone's going to figure out who you really are. It would help make the conversation more interesting and meaningful.
I don't know. It was kind of fun watching you not just jump, but
leap to the conclusion that I "must be a Kurd" when I mentioned the U.S. abandonment of our Kurdish allies in Syria and that didn't require getting any further than the second page of this thread. That bizarre rationalizing, that any real American may not share your view, was useful in discerning where
you are coming from—not in terms of your nationality, but your thought process.
Now... just so that I may enhance
your ability to discern my point of view, since the language itself seems to be insufficient, I was born and raised in the U.S. and have lived in various parts of the country from rural to urban for the entirety of my life. Don't tell anyone else, it's more fun to keep the other folks like yourself, that are unable to figure it out on their own, guessing. Since you find it "hard to discern" what I write without knowing my nationality, is there other information that you need in order to improve your understanding? Race, religion, gender, anything else you might need to know?
Like I said when you brought it up at the beginning of this thread, I've traveled to other countries and found that opinions vary tremendously on any topic you can name, as do people and their personalities, regardless of where you were born or currently reside. The broad stereotypical assumptions that you've expressed, at various times, regarding the nature and behavior of people in other parts of the world have shed no light on them, so much as it has regarding you.
Trouble is South Koreans go along with firm almost dictatorial government. Americans, even Europeans, wouldn't accept that kind of control.
Facts don't generally have a nationality attached to them any more than opinions do. The propaganda and disinformation that is distributed for consumption, however, often does.
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