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[jajdude]

We're born in a wind that never stops blowing. Some say it's trivial, and dismiss it that way, but within the attachment they know, it's not a thing to be
dropped. So why do you care about your nationality, and you do, unless you are a rare one, able to drop it for real. So few can drop it really, the damn thing tags along.

These are my thoughts. I think nationality is nonsense, but remain one who cannot drop it for real. Saying, intellectually, you know it's junk, does not make it junk to you at all. There's a dissonance. The flag was painted a lot. You are attached to that paint.

[yingwenlaoshi]

How's your Chinese speaking now?

Ni huai jiang jongwen ma?

[joshuahirtle27]

[Tiger Beer]

[mistermasan]

"nationlism" is as stupid as organized religion. others trying to herd you into a bloc so they can agglomerate greater power.

that stated, my US passport gets me all kinds of jobs i couldn't get if i was from, say, ecuador.

[VanIslander]

[shifty]

Completely agree with you Van and specifically with the footnote.

What I really like about Jajdude is that if I was in a real fix, I could go knocking on his door and he'd help me.

[Atramentous]

Nationality is a cultural construct, I think. But it is also one that is rooted in your upbringing and familial concept of nationality.

For myself, I am a dual-citizen but have lived outside of the two nations that I am a citizen of. Both of my parents hold government jobs (of their respective governments) and neither is particularily attached to their country of origin. My siblings and I consider ourselves third-culture kids. Consequently, I don't really have any deep, passionate feelings for either nation.

Feelings, both positive and negative, about your nationality come from what you were taught about it at home.

[jajdude]

Cheers shifty and van. You touched something but not quite. Dude, you should know by now that stuff is pointless to say to me. Back on the thread, I suppose my main idea was we all have junk but no dumpster.

and tiger, there was no perhaps.

[Panda]

Nationality can not serve as a self-identification, thus I agree it is nonsense from this aspect.

People who have spent several years abroad more or less feel what you felt.

But I find people who show some patriotism are more charming and self-confident than those who dont. Generally speaking, patriotism is love expanded to your present life and shouldnt be limited within your home country, which you might have been very aloof from.

[soviet_man]

"Nationality" absolutely defines a person and groups of persons.

I say that because politics and economics cannot possibly be uncoupled from nationality under a capitalist system.

80% of humanity live on less than $10 a day.

The richest 20% of the world's nationalities account for 75% of world income.

Nationality is directly linked to a person having greater chances of disease, poverty and other forms of social distress.

That doesn't make it right however.

Nationalities and borders have, and can be again, broken down under a socialist and ultimately communist society - where the fairer distribution of the planet's reources can actually take place.

A few years ago I was standing in a small village where the Chinese, North Korean and Russian borders meet. It was the sort of place where one could contemplate the supposed triviality of nationality, but then the reality of the political situation is there right in front of you: there is no simple way for these three different, diffuse, nationalities to be harmonized under the banner of one society except under socialism. Capitalism offered no possible tools to unite these three nationalities in an equitable way. That is the bottom line.

[VanIslander]

[Jandar]

Nationality has to do with that bit of dirt you've got between your toes.

Nothing a good bath can't fix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxJFsyR85o

[Panda]