I see it everywhere. Its probably most pronounced in the US, but it seems to be on the rise everywhere I go - and as best I'm aware, if we scrolled back in time a decade or two everyone would have been predicting just the opposite, an increase in internationalism.
When are we going to stop getting our identities from our nationality? Its one of the foremost things people use to self-identify, I'm Brazilian, I'm American, I'm French etc. And its how we identify others too (and a tool we use to automatically assign their views). Its like we identify with people of our own nationality as more human than anyone else. It's insiduous and I feel like we should be telling anyone flag-waving in any country that they're an idiot. So long as our self-identity and the way we categorize other people is based on nationality we're doomed to an insular, xenophobic and war-torn geo-political landscape. That's my view anyway. Thoughts?
2006-08-24
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