Openmind
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Openmind ( a.k.a. Notorious BW),
1. If you don't want to answer a simple question, just say so. You don't have to resort to all this "it's moot and I went to college" nonsense. Just say that you brought up a topic in the thread but you don't want to field queries, that's weak but at least it's honest.
2. Internet Credentials mean nothing to me. I am never going to give you, or anyone else, a detailed breakdown of my educational and professional history. You're just going to have to judge my opinions based upon what I write. When I see a bad opinion online I don't all of a sudden believe it's good because the poster went all TMI about their completely unverifiable educational background.
3. When I gave good reasons to gain citizenship earlier than you did, I didn't mention patriotism or wrapping yourself in the flag. In fact, I thought I gave some rather practical reasons. At no time did I suggest that you should go all America over everyone's ass.
4. I'm rubber and you're glue...
We agree on one major thing, we do not have anything in common.
I don't care about credentials of any kind, I care about how people act and whether they have a reasonable basis for their opinions, or if their "opinions" are just propaganda repeated over and over by the Right wing media. The reason I brought up my educational background is because it was relevant to answering your question: All my higher education took place in the USA and led to my career in the USA. . .which reinforced my bond with this country. That's it.
There was NO practical reason for my applying for naturalization earlier than I did. In fact, there were a lot of good reason why it didn't make sense. You see, my husband has made his career as an international manager. . . and it happens that, being married to a Belgian citizen gave him free access to working in all the European countries without having to jump through the labor hoops in those countries. Today, that law has changed and both my husband and I are retired.