Cutting and pasting from Facebook:
I often watch the Neutrality Studies channel in particular, to help me keep up with the WILPF ladies (men allowed, I'm a member) on their listserv.
Lots of collective memories over there (these ladies go back, although not all the way back to Hull House at this point). I'm learning a lot about ethnicities that derive from countries no longer on the map, and they're a lot of them.
[ Nietzsche wasn't even German and wrote critically of the German psyche in Will to Power etc., most people don't know that.. He was born in Prussia. More about N in my blog post linked in the comments).]
Chicago is home to a lot of descendants from Bohemia and Yugoslavia as well. Nations come and go we should remember. I think of Tom Hanks in that movie The Terminal. Many live in a twilight zone transit lounge liminal space, as they've fallen through the very wide cracks in our geopolitical vista.
Many people don't possess any paperwork to prove their citizenship anywhere and therefore they're treated as entitled to no human rights (who would protect them?). For a while, the Americas were a kind of asylum for the undocumented, mainly because many of these undocumented were actually born here (they're native Americans).
