Opinion | Lev Golinkin: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's testimony against President Trump revives anti-Semitic accusations of divided loyalties. - NBCNewsTHINK
Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty ImagesDuring my junior year of high school, I slammed a door on my fingers. As I was hopping away cursing, the pain was replaced by an awestruck realization: I was swearing in English.
That moment — undignified, indignant, graceless — was one of those precious times that I felt myself becoming American. Almost every immigrant has at least one common experience: the inevitable reminder that there are people who feel you will never belong in this country. U.S. media love running photos of naturalization ceremonies, the last step in an arduous process when immigrants swear allegiance to the United States and receive citizenship certificates, as if a single photogenic moment can possibly capture the formation of a bond between person and country. I always smile at those pictures. No ceremony, no matter how moving, can bestow “Americanness,” any more than a wedding vow can generate love.
I was 10 when my family came to the U.S. as political refugees fleeing Soviet anti-Semitism. The process of assimilation lasted years. It came in fits and starts, in quiet little moments you can’t plan or study for. It’s instinctively cursing in English when crushing your hand. It’s discovering yourself calling Team USA “us” and not “them” or “the Americans.
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