Personally I always had issues with the concept of a "country" and "borders"

Like who are you to tell me where I can and cannot go on this planet..

Everyone should be free to travel where ever they want on this planet

Just because a huuman claimed land centuries ago decides how we live, it's pretty messed up if you ask me

How do you approach in-group favoritism (a.k.a. in-group bias) and its effects when anyone can move anywhere?

Does that risk creating tensions and undermining the cohesion of the host country?

Even in places like the US and EU where people are free to move around, most stay in their country/state of origin.

When people do migrate en masse, they tend to stick together and form enclaves like Brits and Scandinavians do in Spain.

It's a lofty idea that I think is fraught with challenges.

@stux

@svavar @stux I think this is an allistic-centric view of behaviours. With comparatively fewer autistic people, we might have less influence / represent less deviation from the [allistic / 'default'] norm. Still, learned behaviours are shortcuts, not inevitabilities.

I'm probably somewhere on that spectrum myself although I don't have a formal diagnosis.

I'm not sure how an autistic person would behave in an in-group vs out-group situation. It can be highly fluid and contextual depending on how each group is defined.

There are examples in liberal democracies of tensions between the existing host culture and religious immigrants who oppose the host cultures openness and acceptance. This happens in the UK as well as other European countries.

@MxVerda @stux

@svavar @stux I meant more that we'd (maybe?) group up with enclaves, but we may be more likely to go hermit, assimilate (self- and group-annihilate), or group up but along neurotype and/or habits rather than ethnicity and/or societal culture from born or raised country.

(Which gets complicated and wordy when your birth country and nationality may match, but where you grew up is different from where you live, and/or your expected or known ethnic origin, and/or probably more identity sginifiers.)

@IAmDannyBoling oh yeah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk3oMhUFL8U

grim patron - everyone get in here!

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