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Ask HN: Feel the same loyalty for countries of residence as we now do jobs?
- beaconstudios 8y agoScott Alexander has written an interesting exploration of an idea similar to this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-communitarianism/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-... I feel like the tweet author is being too dismissive of the value of culture though (which is the umbrella that morals and religion belong to).
- flurdy 8y agoI think the tweet author in the first twitter reply emphasises the importance of culture in your choice of residence versus the arbitrary birth country.
- beaconstudios 8y agoBy culture I mean a culture to belong to, traditions and history you can feel linked to and that give you a sense of historical continuity. I'm british though so our cultural history is a bit more ancient than the US and I don't know if national spirit works the same there as a result. It seems the US is more unified by ideas around freedom from tyranny and individual rights.
- thrower123 8y agoUnrealistic hope, when so many people never live more than a day's hike from where they were born. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...
- jdmoreira 8y agoI'm not particularly nomadic but having been born in a country, raised in another and currently living in a third country I already feel zero loyalty towards any specific nationality or country.