She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns

Anthony Marra
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She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns. In this quote, Margot Robbie is alluding to two things. First, she’s talking about the pride she feels in the fact that her ancestors were from a country that was once at war with Russia. Second, she’s talking about the pride of holding a special place in her heart for people who are not like her. In other words, she’s saying that the reason she doesn’t feel entitled to be a “patriotic American” is because of how wonderful it would be to have a heritage that doesn’t share such close connections with America.

Source: A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena

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