I'm not really optimistic for Tuvalu, I'm guessing their culture may out last any legal standing. But I've learned in history the idea of the modern state with

I'm not really optimistic for Tuvalu, I'm guessing their culture may out last any legal standing. But I've learned in history the idea of the modern state with its political borders and such is kind of a novelty. For some people, it's just pointless lines drawn by Europeans from long ago (e.g. Pashtuns on the Afghan/Pakistan border) and others it's something like an inconvenience (e.g. rich people who live anywhere they want, corporations putting their profit far from their headquarters, etc.,) - wish stories like Tuvalu would further the discussion on the role of the nation-state in the modern world, because it looks like we're probably going to have a lot of refugee crises in the decades to come. In a way the world is getting smaller all the time and we even have more people going to space than ever, its own thing beyond geopolitical borders.