quite a lot of anglo saxon countries distrust national id's and a national register can be abused eg rounding up he jews in Europe. More recently I worked for

quite a lot of anglo saxon countries distrust national id's and a national register can be abused eg rounding up he jews in Europe. More recently I worked for a Lebanese company in the uk and one of my Lebanese coworkers had had a close family member killed as when he was stopped by a militia had had the wrong religion on his card