I was posing those questions as an extension of lj's mention of climate change forcing people to move, thus the conflicts over land and resources. In that case, it will mostly be "I have to leave" with a good amount of crossing national boundaries.
I wouldn't expect someone going from Alabama to Texas to lose their sense of Americanness, at least not simply because of that move.
(If things had really gone to sh*t and someone was moving from what used to be Alabama to what used to be Texas, Americanness might not mean much anymore.)
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So what happens to nationalism if many more people are either moving from place to place or or at least relocating from where they were raised? Does it become stronger among the relatively few who stay put? How do they handle being outnumbered by "the others"? Do the movers become citizens of the world?
There's going to be conflict over land and resources. How will the lines be drawn? How rapidly do those lines shift? How large will the factions or coalitions of factions be?
Thinking about the future feels like forming the basis of a dystopian sci-fi novel. I might update my resume to tailor it to a position as a warlord.
2 weeks ago
A percentage basis? You guys really know how to kill a joke.
2 weeks ago
I'll bet that in the last 1000 years England has seen more immigration than in the previous 500,000,000 years.
I was posing those questions as an extension of lj's mention of climate change forcing people to move, thus the conflicts over land and resources. In that case, it will mostly be "I have to leave" with a good amount of crossing national boundaries.
I wouldn't expect someone going from Alabama to Texas to lose their sense of Americanness, at least not simply because of that move.
(If things had really gone to sh*t and someone was moving from what used to be Alabama to what used to be Texas, Americanness might not mean much anymore.)
So what happens to nationalism if many more people are either moving from place to place or or at least relocating from where they were raised? Does it become stronger among the relatively few who stay put? How do they handle being outnumbered by "the others"? Do the movers become citizens of the world?
There's going to be conflict over land and resources. How will the lines be drawn? How rapidly do those lines shift? How large will the factions or coalitions of factions be?
Thinking about the future feels like forming the basis of a dystopian sci-fi novel. I might update my resume to tailor it to a position as a warlord.
A percentage basis? You guys really know how to kill a joke.
I'll bet that in the last 1000 years England has seen more immigration than in the previous 500,000,000 years.