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It exists only when people believe it exists. If no one believed in your citizenship, your passport would just be a little notebook with no value. When going fr
by digbybk 5y ago
It exists only when people believe it exists. If no one believed in your citizenship, your passport would just be a little notebook with no value. When going from a world without citizenship to a world with it, nothing needs to change outside of the human brain. In that sense, it’s a fiction.
- jkepler 5y agoNo. A passport says what country must take you when other places decide to deport you or refuse you entry.
- digbybk 5y agoYou may be missing my point. If no one believes in the country’s existence, including the people who live in the land that the country is purported to encompass, then it doesn’t exist. Nations aren’t tangible physical objects. They exist in the collective human imagination. Yes. Your passport is just a notebook if no one believes in the country it is supposed to be for.
- curryst 5y agoSealand would be of note here. This is basically that exact scenario. Dude buys an old oil platform, calls it a country and issues a bunch of passports. Debates abound over whether they should be accepted or not.