Identity

I’ve always wondered why passports and nationalities were so important. Does it define who we are? Or does it just give people an idea of the background you come from. Is it a vital piece of information to be shared ? be proud of ? or maybe ashamed?!!

Patriotism is a nice thing but everything has limits. We tend to generalize a lot when it comes to race/ethnicity/nationality. Like oh these people X are all thieves, people Y are too lazy, people Z never are all stinky. I bet some nationalities popped into your head just reading that regardless if you approve of it or not.

We have grown into an era of mixed families where on family consists of several nationalities. And when this can be something truly beautiful it can also cause a bit of an identity crisis. Where do you belong? Do you have to define yourself? What if your passport does not portray who you are or does not define your sense of belonging? Why do you have to be judged according to it or according to anything at all ??

We run towards foreign countries striving to get their names on our passport when they are everything but who we are. Why ? political crisis, better jobs, pensions, medical care..so on and so forth. All because our lovely countries have failed to provide us with our basic needs.

It makes no sense and since i’m all about math then let’s put this into an equation and see if we could make sense out of it.

YOU + 20 years experience + Current passport = current pay check

YOU + 20 years experience + Foreign passport = current paycheck* 4

cool right? not really. hayda bisamo “almod7ik al mobki” the funny tragedy.

I wonder how things would be like in 20 years. Will we still be alive? Will there be a third world war? will our lives get better or worse? the economy? children? diseases? homosexuality ? homophobia?? oh well.