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[stillnosheep]

If a nation could be small, with few enough people
Even if it had the means to produce more, they'd be useless.
Such a people would know that death is real,
And they wouldn't travel far, even if they were able to.
And they would not vaunt their army or their weaponry.
They would count in their heads again and write by hand.
Their food would be simple, but it would feed them;
Their clothes would be fine, but homely
And they would have fires in their homes.

They would be happy with what they have!
And even though they'd live along the border within earshot
Of their neighbours' c ocks at dawn, and the dogs barking,
They wouldn't mind if they never went there.

It is enough, for them, to live and let live.

[Atlas]

Good post, Captain Kirk. Never occured to me to go back to the source! That's why you're the captain, baby!

[zaneth]

I don't necessarily think of expatriation as a solution for America's problems or even as being against the grain of them.

We think of expatriation as some kind of anit-American thing at times. But the more I look at it, the more American it seems.

And I find that exposure to some foreign cultures makes me less tolerant of them.

Some times I find the starry-eyed love that students have for America as more frustrating than than the America bashing. But then, some of the older teachers who've been there have fond feelings for the place (though not for the food).

As for the nomeclature debate: Pleeeeeeaase. Everybody in the world knows what I mean when I say I'm American. It isn't just our provincialism.

A side note: on my marriage license "nationality" is left blank. My Citizenship is USA but they said there is no such "nationality" as American, they said. My wife has Russian on both lines but I only have citizenship. I couldn't help feeling there was a subtle dig there.

[khmerhit]

[Asynca]