What makes a nation?

The ability to define one’s borders and support its inhabitants that share a culture is what makes a nation.  The presence of severe discord does not obstruct this definition but is calls into question the nation’s identity.  Worlds are divided into 1^st and 3^rd  countries based on its resources and the global value of those resources.  I don’t believe anyone honestly configured the idea of such an integrated world market that currently exists.  But I do believe the purpose was to gain holdings that could guarantee the success of a nation’s people.  That success can only be achieved through an appropriate foundation.  What is stronger than being able to confidently express where you come from?  It is a way to pin-point one’s existence in a very big world.  Nathan definitely had trouble understanding where is it he belonged and why.  Being Asian in an all-white community today seems and comprehending one’s different , to us, is instant.  It doesn’t  necessarily incite insecurities within ourselves.  Not when everyone we know wants to be different. 

Where are you from Des?  

Jamaica.

Oh that’s so cool, are you going back?

Uh, no.  I live here.

I will not forget the girl who always asked her mother why other people thought she was different but she herself could not see it.  She would ask how they knew.  And to see that as an adult she still struggled with that is utterly fantastic in its purest definition.  It goes to show the power of the psychological and its importance.  Something we cannot see has such a great impact on how we envision ourselves.  A mirror does not see everything there is to a person.