it happens incredibly quickly. there used to be an autonomous province/tiny country in Eastern Europe called Galicia that vanished beneath the tide of history during WWI. 3/4ths of my grandparents were from territory that used to be Galicia and was divided 3 ways after the war.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1057337690687864832 …
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They all migrated to America in the inter-war years, and it's a good thing they did because after 1933 they probably wouldn't have been able to and I wouldn't be alive to tweet this.
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Migration is how humans survive in the world. It's how we evolved and is a far older, deeper, and more fundamental human universal than anything from the last ~10000 years of settler/farmer culture.
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