Expat Patriots Online

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Turks 🇹🇷 bragging online about how great their country is from their apartment in Berlin 🇩🇪🇪🇺. Syrians 🇸🇾 putting the old Syrian flag emoji 🇸🇾 in their profile name. (They’re ‘refugees’ living in Stockholm 🇸🇪🇪🇺.) Moroccans 🇲🇦 calling Portuguese 🇵🇹🇪🇺 people brown from their apartments in Brussels 🇧🇪🇪🇺. Russians 🇷🇺 & Ukrainians 🇺🇦 beefing about how they would give their lives for their countries. (They both live in Prague 🇨🇿🇪🇺.) Albanians 🇦🇱 living in Italy 🇮🇹🇪🇺 bragging online about how Albania is the best. (They don’t want to go back.)

What it means

A man dramatically lounges and types on a laptop while the video cycles through captions mocking Turks, Syrians, Moroccans, Russians, Ukrainians, and Albanians who boast about their homelands while living abroad in European cities. The joke is that their online patriotism and arguments about national identity contrast with their comfortable expatriate lives; the melodramatic eurodance song “Butterfly” by Smile.Dk makes the reaction feel even more absurd and theatrical.

Sound

♪ Smile.Dk — Butterfly

music / музыка

Objects

young man / молодой мужчина laptop / ноутбук couch / диван living room / гостиная green upholstery / зелёная обивка gray sleeveless shirt / серая майка без рукавов green shorts / зелёные шорты vertical blinds / вертикальные жалюзи framed painting / картина в рамке wooden floor / деревянный пол cushion / подушка smartphone-sized screen / экран размером со смартфон typing / набор текста