Why do we need borders in the world to separate people/countries?
596472
i've been thinking about this one alot lately.\nits fairly pointless...multi-national corporations don't seem to see borders, we are all just lumped into marketing research statistics.\n\nor to quote from the movie "network" -very worth watching by the way and despite its age still feels very current.\n"There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. "\n\n"There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars. The world is a business, it has been since man crawled out of the slime."\n\na large enough company gets around any border regulations just fine, but it sure hinders smaller ones, and individuals.  and though its way overused to point blame fingers at, look at haliburton, they have been doing business for years and years in countries like iraq, iran, and others that we have trade laws against, using loopholes and such in the laws.\n\nit does give people a very us or them mentality, keeps people in power, and can be generaly rather repressive, and its not like any of these people would just give up their positions.  can you immagine the cries of governments if they had to drop their borders....but this is MY COUNTRY!  but i think compassion for others would increase if they were dropped and we just started viewing everyone as in this together on one tiny world spinning around a sun, since we are much faster to help a neighbor, or a bordering county, or the next state, or others in our own country.  then as it radiates out we get more and more reluctant.
197109
Write about how contacts like this Internet site are changing the nature of national boundaries.  When we can effectively talk to the whole world, make friends everywhere -- even get to know people without even knowing what country they are in -- then the whole idea of being contained by national boundaries is very insubstantial.  True, it still takes physically moving by way of transportation and immigration laws and passports and all that; but the ideas and the contacts that facilitate travel are in place long before a person sets foot outside their own door.  People no longer sit in their wretched conditions and only imagine what the rest of the world has.  They get pictures and sound and stories of the rest of the world, and they want the freedom to go and see and do for themselves.  Tyrants have a tough time these days!
1082922
Yeahhhh!  Let's be just like Mexico! That's something to aspire to.  I assume your point is that we shouldn't let Mexicans come across our borders because they don't let Americans in.  So basically, you're suggesting that we should adopt the social policies of a THIRD WORLD NATION!!
536432
The US developed the US Exclusion act in 1882. IT was the only act to DENY entry to a sinlge group of people. Mexico opened its borders to many different groups - in Mexico we have large communites of Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese and Jewish immigrants, as well as immigrants from Europe, specially after WW2. I don't know if the "missed" The US, maybe they believed that the US was not the center of the world. Just my opinionl
623723
That's because there are dumb idiots out there that think the U.S. borders should be open to everyone.  They think that the U.S. has no right to enfore it's borders because it's the land of the Native Americans and the U.S. took it by force.  More liberal bullsh1t.  At least your a conservative so you have a hold on reality.  Many liberals (not all) are screwy in the head.  They don't understand what's good for the country.  But I think most of those crazies make up a small percentage of liberals, not all of them.
116085
It depends on the country.  People want to move to the USA, so it is to keep them out.  If you live in a bad country, like when there was East Germany, they had to build a wall to keep people in.
305941
i do not believe it has anything to do with racism , to want our borders closed. the key word here is illegal. things have to be done in a proper manner.. we have to take care of the people in our own back yards first.. and although we should remain compassionate, we can not carry the burden,if other countries are mistreating their citizens so much that they seek asylum here. this is a classic example of charity needing to begin at home. once we have erased poverty and issues faced by Americans then we can look elsewhere. this is what homeland security should be all about. and please do  not get this confused with having to step up to the plate from time to time to send adequate aid the victims of disasters etc. if reasonable.
491536
It's cultural. These countries didn't exist before colonialism, just a series of tribal areas constantly shifting. Colonialism brought many benefits but the tribes still existed within the new boundaries, as soon as we left greed and rivalry ensured a breakdown of all the structures. Our own borders took many hundreds of years to establish. It takes a long time to form a stable Nation. You can lead a horse to water .....
418059
Most of the boundaries are natural like rivers and other natural features.  After that it was based on trying to separate by the populations involved.
864556
Why not just enforce our borders and immigration laws? That would prevent them from returning.
638588
Because people fight over territory and resources (which may be divided by a political boundary).  A good example is the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait over an oil field.
25463
During the Cold War, many countries relied on the protective umbrella offered by the US which included troops on the ground to ensure a commitment to defend our friends if attacked.  It did keep the peace.  Now that that particular threat is over it is not surprising that many countries wish to be far more independent.  Perhaps they had to like or lump US foreign policy then, but not now.  Only time will tell whether the world is really less dangerous, especially if there is little protective cooperation against terrorism.  I believe the US has that right.
1179727
Most countries already have a seperation written right into thier constitution...but there have been times I wish the church had more pull.\n\n+D
1115221
We must learn to be good neighbors who work cooperatively with the people of other countries.  We must stop being bullies and be willing to listen to other points of view.  We aren't always right.  We must learn to share ideas and pool our resources.
391901
There should be no national borders. Ordinary people should be able to live where ever they choose, just like the wealthy.
786788
My USA citizen countrymen/women. The USA is a melting pot of many colors and nationalities. I hope all of us would defend each other against outside forces or entities. We should not allow other people to divide us by bringing up issues in the past that they use to stir up past ills. The past is and should remain there, in the past. Issues of today are issues of today. We all had our good and bad pasts, they are over with. Today we should look at each other as AMERICAN compatriots.
598634
This is true of most nations. There is great diversity in India, There is in the US too. Look at Iraq. There are just three nations which are already diverse in a world which is becoming more diverse daily. I n my mind, it is important that the population of a country identify themselves as nationals of that country and participate in its culture to strengthen a sense of community. However, the thousands of years of separatism in ay given place does not allow any other nation to dismiss it, rationally. As a sovereign nation, it may be difficult to integrate the needs of all the subsets of communities, but it is impossible to say that a nation must first unite its population before we can build good relations with that nation. The stakes are so very high.