Doug wrote:
>> The rest of the agenda should concentrate on integration across
>> oceans and time zones; for example, mulling over the prospect of a
>> youngster enjoying dual citizenship of India and the US, and
>> marrying a Guatemalan of mixed Greek-Slav extraction.
>
> Should our political aspiration be generalizing that as a right for
> all, or concentrate instead on national integration, or something
> else?
Yes. Uneven and combined and all that. Historical and concrete, etc. aspiration? i confess that the wickedmodernbaconianenlightenment hope that in the glorious future we will all be sensible has always appealed to me. As Disraeli wrote: "Sensible men are all of the same religion. Pray, what is that? Sensible men never tell."
john mage