Nations and States

State and statelessness...

the space in between and that occupied area that surrounds it.

Language forms a way of discovering a landscape.
Giving way to a new way of seeing.

Of being.



Is a nation a group of people, accustomed to the same culture, language, and moral rights and wrongs, and the state, a measure. An institution to which these people conform?

So when the state lets its people down, as it so often does, is it the fault of the people who felt the need to be governed by a body, or merely the "banality of evil" that leads to the atrocities of the past century?

Which position does the 'nation state' take?

What justification can be given to criminal acts commited by refugees in order to have a right as a criminal, because the 'state' they inhabit fail to provide them with rights as a human.

In a multicultural soceity, with faith-based schools existing alongside occupied spaces where the native language has been stripped, where do lessons begin?

'Inhabitants' would prefer not to talk politics, or discuss borders. And as long as one holds the unobtainable permit, or just the right shade of skin colour, which they can opt for, they may pass today.

If they're obviously in the right mood.