No Stupid Questions

No idea.

That's the neat thing - you don't! For the same reasons that some people in your country will continue to hold their own stubborn beliefs about other people despite all evidence to the contrary, some people in other countries will do the same to you.

I never fit in with my home culture. For me, that's racist, fascist Americans. Even as a kid I wasn't accepted by my peers, school admin, and even my own mother. Having grown up under that, and becoming myself despite it all, some of those people (my mother at least) have come around. But honestly, I wouldn't count on it.

The best you can do is keep being yourself (I know, cliched, but seriously) and live by example. Take it from someone with a lifetime of dealing with this - attempting to convince people doesn't work. However, those who are open-minded will see you as you are and note you as one of "the good ones." Instead of trying to change the mind of someone who's dead set on seeing you as an enemy, focus on the people who already understand that it's wrong to define a group of demographically-related people by the actions of a few.

Speaking as an Israeli, I don't have an answer for you. But you're not alone. Most of the people I know are in the same boat to various extents. That tends to happen with today's social-media-fueled political polarization.

What I try to say online (if it comes up and becomes a problem) is this is just where I was born. But to be honest, I find that most people worth talking to don't give a shit where you live. As one of them once told me in reply, you don't control your spawn point.

You can't. Heck if its a country that effects the rest of the world they can't either. Its fight flight freeze fawn. You can get yourself physically far away but if it has a powerful military that can be bombing things on the other side of the globe that is going to be pretty useless. So flight is kinda out. Fawn is becoming them and just bending over and pretending to yourself that you like it and are one of them. Thats most of their supporters. Freeze sounds bad but its better to be not helping than if you can't actively hinder. of course fight but yeah it can feel like being a gnat trying to stumble the giant.

Through your words and actions.

You don't. You start to participate/become active and fix your country.

You don't. People either understand most people worldwide are disenfranchised or think every citizen of certain countries should be shot. You will not change the opinions of the latter.

You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.

Parlamentary politics means I have close to 0 input in what actually goes on in government.

It's probably a safe assumption that the greatest majority of the rest of the world will be unaware of your existence. Just don't be a dick to your inner circle and immediate outer circle and you're probably good.

Don't let "I'm from X" be your whole personality. Get actively involved in changing the trajectory of X if you can. And if you can't, just be a decent fucking human being, heaven knows we don't have enough of them to go around.

Also, counterpoint: if people do judge you by your point of origin, put some distance between you and those shallow motherfuckers.

Met, I'm just trying to leave this world a little better than I found it. And to do that it makes no difference where I'm from, how I speak or how I look like. If I get to act contrary to someone's stereotype to do it, I consider that a plus.

Worry less about people-pleasing. You will always be seen as part of somebody's problem. Whether you actually are, or they just see you as such, doesn't matter much as you almost certainly can't do anything about it, either way.

Those who view you as part of the problem will keep doing no matter what. There is no way to gain those people's favor

actively support, volunteer for, and fund what you do believe in, to the extent possible. note that some people will still blame you for what "your" country does, as a means of expressing frustration.

Learn a new language & use that as your primary language.

assassinate the president... (j/k) 😅 (in Minecraft)

Don't take up space online defending yourself as "one of the good ones", or saying not all people from your country are like that.

Don't take up space online replying to content critical of your country by saying how ashamed you are to be from your country, or how sorry you are.

Strangers online don't know you. If you truly believe you are not part of the problem you should be able to rationalize negative comments about people in your country as generalizations and/or venting and therefore not directed at you personally. There is no need to correct them. There is no need to make sure they know you are not part of the problem. That does not help them, it only helps you. Let it go, stay out of it, move on.

(This isn't a passive aggressive meta comment btw)

If someone doesn't know a person from a country, YOU aren't going to live slightly differently to magically force them to understand how anything works.

If my country's politics get brought up, I just state that I do not support the government's recent actions. (Don't read that to mean I support my government's actions at literally any point in history .)

Have you considered being part of the solution?

You cannot escape generalizations. Case in point: "rest of the world." There is no such thing. So the best you can aspire to is the subordinate clause apostille. "X is Iranian but fled from the mullahs." "Y is American but a Sanders type socialist." I don't have any idea why these two nationalities came into my head first.

Find your subordinate clause and live it. Actions speak louder than Insta posts.

If you are like me. Stop taking the meds you need to survive and just hope you take a forever nap soon. Use the money saved for a life insurance policy so you can at least give your family enough funds to get out.

Doing nothing about it invites judgement

no one gives a shit about you, so you shouldn't either.