I’m a little older, but some of this struck a chord — I too grew up with holidays in France, Andorra, the Netherlands, learning French, German, Latin and Ancient Greek at school — but those were always foreign countries and foreign languages to me. My mother spent part of her (languages) degree studying in Munich, my father’s surname came from the Black Forest — but I’m not German: I don’t identify with their government at all.
I do sympathise; I’ve never felt well represented by the UK government (nor the EU or Scottish ones) — I’m quite likely to emigrate at some point, though almost certainly not to the EU: I could enjoy visiting Amsterdam or Hamburg, but living and working there? Not in the way I could somewhere like Toronto. (Two of my German cousins emigrated to Canada years ago, as it happens.)
