> it paints a picture of certain places as belonging to a certain group of people by natural right rather than by a more contingent or accidental mechanism It

> it paints a picture of certain places as belonging to a certain group of people by natural right rather than by a more contingent or accidental mechanism It is a delicate and fragile thing to be sure. The culture of a place comes from the people born accidentally to it. The desire to see that culture drives people not of it to visit, and then maybe to relocate, but if they don't let go of their own cultures and assimilate, they will fundamentally change the culture that drew them there. Is this bad? It just means something changes -- it's up to the maintainers of the existing culture to decide how they want that culture to change. Free movement is beautiful, a border-less world idyllic, but it does mean abandoning regional differences as the world becomes one giant ice cream soup of Hard Rock Cafes and Le Pain Quotidien bakeries, Ei Group pubs and Wyndham hotels.