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I was born in Russia. That's my red passport.

My parent moved with us to USA, when I was 18. That's my dark blue passport.

When I was working as Software engineer in California, our company got aquired and they asked us to relocate to Canada. I got PR here and soon will have light blue passport here.

Personal thoughts:

USA citizenship gives me best opportunities and access to best job market.

Canada citizenship gives me best social net: free health care, lower-cost education for my kids.

Russian citizenship gives me hope of protection from western injustice system (Snowden-style) or left cancel culture.

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I'm doing the opposite. I'm an American now living in Russia and will apply for long term residency then may apply for citizenship at some point once my language skills are better. I joke with my wife that in return for the green card I helped her earn, she helps me get a red card.

Russia has very low taxes for contractors, so that combined with the American foreign earned income tax credit results in tremendous tax savings. Also, I'm on the Black Sea so the weather is better than the rest of Russia. Downside is the political situation, obviously.

A second passport for a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the first, or better yet, an "enemy state", is a literal get-out-of-jail-free card.

If not, having enough money and a musical instrument case may suffice.

For those not getting the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn#Flight_from_Japan

Russia is not exactly a country conducive to unfettered freedom of speech. What are you afraid of getting "cancelled"? Does your Russian passport exempt you from a Twitter ban for spreading misinformation?

> or left cancel culture

This doesn't really exist, it's a right-wing myth used to fuel all sorts of "conservatives are under attack" type nonsense.

Weaponized victim complex bullshit.

Just like white/male privilege in America that is made up by people who like to blame others for their failures in life. Tons of victim complex in America.

It does exist, it's just not the shape most people think it is.

Older generations had different demographics, and white men are still in power from those generations... in no small part because they were the ones who were in the majority.

There remains a bit of blindness to the problems of non-white non-male persons among the 'ruling elites'... But these same cohort of leaders were pursuing a program of diversity, inclusion, and meritocracy over the last several decades.

To say white/male as default isn't a problem isn't exactly true (see, for example, how medical research has historically been conducted mostly on young white male volunteers), but to say that it isn't changing is also not exactly true -- demographics are changing in the US and the composition of institutions of power is also changing.

But I'm not even an American? :)

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