1/ Tricky question: what is the opposite of a “border”? The typical fearful-right idea of a non-border is a vague fear of a massive flood of people, suggesting a dam-like containment of pressure. The idea of developing world “overpopulation” encourages this mental model.
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you’re ignoring the function and role of the state. The border demarcates the state’s territorial domain. also your assertion that US culture is isolationist is distorted. it’s not American culture you refute, but a particular group of Americans who currently control the state
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The isolationism is something I’ve felt in all the 22 years I’ve been here. It just happens to manifest in a particularly toxic way right now.
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you and I are both here because America is and has been open to immigration. this legal openness was rooted in culture, in a certain kind of idealism, however you feel about the attitudes you encounter.
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That’s one half of the story, yes. For Canada it is perhaps more like 90% of the story.

