Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what … - Nick Laird

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I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

Nick Laird

Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.

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