I’m Now a New Zealand Citizen






I’m Now a New Zealand Citizen


April 12th, 2014

I became a New Zealand citizen yesterday.

Wow, you should have heard how disgruntled the Americans were at the ceremony I attended! Holy cow. I was content to just calmly maintain appearances, but other Americans were saying that they consider themselves to be political refugees and that they’re never going back to the U.S.

In general, it was mostly Americans and British people who felt extremely lucky to have a new country to call home. I don’t know what the usual breakdown is at these things, but about 1/3 of us being grated NZ citizenship at this particular ceremony were Americans.

It was very strange to be at an event for “normal” people and encounter a bunch of Americans openly unfurling about what a mess the U.S. has become.

Is this fairly standard with members of the American diaspora around the world now?

When you encounter a group of Americans abroad, are they talking about the U.S. in terms that range from total disappointment to quivering, tear inducing horror? Are they saying that they never want to return and noting the Kafkaesque process of trying to renounce their U.S. citizenship? How about the manic fascist financial reporting requirements for Americans living abroad?

Woh.

After the ceremony, several of us were standing around talking and I said that lots of people, including my father, thought that I was insane for thinking that any country in the world would be a better place to live than the U.S. There were nods of agreement from the others in the group who had heard similar things from their friends and family members.

After a few minutes of unburdening herself about all of this, one of the women asked, rhetorically, “What happened to our country?”

I didn’t have the heart to say, “The same thing that will happen here if we let it.”















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One Response to “I’m Now a New Zealand Citizen”



  1. SW Says:


    Well done Kevin. I was wondering when you would announce this (fantastic) news. Are you keeping your US citizenship?

    I became a citizen of the country I am in about 18mths ago and am very grateful for it.

    When I left my country of birth I was called a traitor (amongst other things)!




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