JoshData 🐢Every now and then I think about the concept of a "stateless" person (someone without citizenship in any country). It's a deft move of passive language. People are not stateless in the same way that people aren't illegal. *Someone revoked* their citizenship. *Someone refuses to recognize* their country. *Everyone has rejected them* from modern global civilization. There should be no concept of a stateless person. They are "destated" at best.
Colin Rowat@josh the person I knew best in this category was born in Switzerland to parents who had been South Vietnamese when they fled. She was stateless: no South Vietnamese citizenship to inherit, as no South Vietnam; no Swiss citizenship, which is based on 'blood' rather than birth. She was also uniquely gifted.
@rowat_c Fascinating and awful. How did she figure things out?
@josh she was able to get to the US (DACA/Dreamers?), but couldn't travel until she got her US citizenship. Then she broke loose, seeing travel as a combinatorial optimisation problem: she had Google Sheets for all of the train lines she'd taken, how far, what % of their tasks she'd ridden.
And questions like: with which country does France share its longest land border - Spain, Brazil, Australia?
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