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The map resembles one depicting the route taken by a Germanic tribe of the fifth century, only with the directions of the arrows reversed: http://www.newyorker.
by triggerwarn1 11y ago
The map resembles one depicting the route taken by a Germanic tribe of the fifth century, only with the directions of the arrows reversed: http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/151026_r27183rd-925.jpg http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/151026_r...
This "refugee" became an economic migrant shopping around for benefits as soon as he transited beyond Turkey, a modern, prosperous, 99% Muslim country into which he could have easily assimilated.
- mikeash 11y agoHave you ever moved somewhere in order to improve your economic prospects? (For a job, or school, for example.) If so, what makes you any better?
- triggerwarn1 11y agoNo, actually, I haven't. But it's quite telling that the concept of a nation has no greater significance to you and those who share your sympathies than the economic prospects it offers. And were I to emigrate, it would be to a country that I actually shared some cultural, ideological, or other sympathies with and not just the one that offered me the most free stuff, and I would actually make a good faith effort to assimilate into it and not demand special treatment and endless accommodations.
- mikeash 11y agoI didn't just mean between nations. Have you moved cities? Neighborhoods? Streets? Please explain, if it's "telling" that the concept of a nation has little significance to me (and I would completely agree that it does not, for me) then what exactly does it tell you?
- triggerwarn1 11y agoIt tells me that you don't understand or outright reject the very notion of citizenship and the obligations it entails and should be viewed with suspicion by those who still subscribe to it.
- mikeash 11y agoThat's hardly a surprise. It's just a special case of the eternal conflict between those who distrust authority and those who side with it.