| There were Chinese, FA, before there was China. The nation does not define the people - the people define the nation. The problem with nationalism is that the nation is too large to have a cohesive body of people to define it. I, as a New Yorker, find myself more in tune with people from London, Paris and Hong Kong than I do people from Cleveland, St Louis and Detroit. Why, then, should I fight to defend people in Cleveland against people in Paris?
With immigrants, most of our economy is based on immigrant labor. Legitimizing it helped smooth relations (and living standards) for everybody - and this is shown again and again, what with the Germans, the Irish, the Chinese... then again, you bumblefucks from Cleveland wouldn't know that, would you?
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |