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International citizenship

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
Not sure i put this in the correct section, so please move it if needed.

Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Not sure i put this in the correct section, so please move it if needed.

Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?


Brexit caused millions of requests for a European passport. Nothing was done about it.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
Do you mean this?:
Global citizenship - Wikipedia
There are many organisations that provide passports as a "global citizen".
It is easier to try and get citizenship in a country of your choosing, leaving behind your birth country.
Yes the link you provided is one of the ways i see as possible:)

Personally i have no attachments to any country, so i was looking at an option to have a passport that have no spesific country as origin. Lets call it citizenship of the earth
 

Gargovic Malkav

Well-Known Member
Not sure i put this in the correct section, so please move it if needed.

Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?

Is it that you don't care about ethnicity?
Or is that you explicitly feel Non-Norwegian or Non-European?
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
The sooner we do away with passports and such the better in my view (feeling more like a global citizen), but then they are so often just defence mechanisms to protect a country from those who might want to harm such, so how do we get around that?

Albert Einstein described himself as a world citizen and supported the idea throughout his life, famously saying "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

Yippee! :oops:
 

Eddi

Agnostic
Premium Member
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Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?
I think international citizenship is something one can practice without needing a piece of paper
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
You may not care, but others may think otherwise.
What about them?
Throwbacks! -- tribalists with a stone age neurology.

From Aketo's linked article:
Studies of the psychological roots of global citizenship have found that persons high in global citizenship are also high on the personality traits of openness to experience and agreeableness from the Big Five personality traits and high in empathy and caring. Oppositely, the authoritarian personality, the social dominance orientation, and psychopathy are all associated with less global human identification. Some of these traits are influenced by heredity as well as by early experiences, which, in turn, likely influence individuals' receptiveness to global human identification.[14]

Research has found that those who are high in global human identification are less prejudiced toward many groups, care more about international human rights, worldwide inequality, global poverty and human suffering. They attend more actively to global concerns, value the lives of all human beings more equally, and give more in time and money to international humanitarian causes. They tend to be more politically liberal on both domestic and international issues.[14] They want their countries to do more to alleviate global suffering.
 

Gargovic Malkav

Well-Known Member
Throwbacks! -- tribalists with a stone age neurology.

From Aketo's linked article:
Studies of the psychological roots of global citizenship have found that persons high in global citizenship are also high on the personality traits of openness to experience and agreeableness from the Big Five personality traits and high in empathy and caring. Oppositely, the authoritarian personality, the social dominance orientation, and psychopathy are all associated with less global human identification. Some of these traits are influenced by heredity as well as by early experiences, which, in turn, likely influence individuals' receptiveness to global human identification.[14]

Research has found that those who are high in global human identification are less prejudiced toward many groups, care more about international human rights, worldwide inequality, global poverty and human suffering. They attend more actively to global concerns, value the lives of all human beings more equally, and give more in time and money to international humanitarian causes. They tend to be more politically liberal on both domestic and international issues.[14] They want their countries to do more to alleviate global suffering.

Don't you think new groups/divisions/cultures will arise if you would do away with the concept of nationalism?
And won't it be a gateway to a new era of taboos, where it is forbidden to speak of these cultural differences, which in turn will lead to a new era of narrow-mindedness and oppression?
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
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Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?
Every country has different immigration laws. Many would be posted on line, and you can always visit any embassy in your country to find out. It's not to be taken lightly, as some countries have severe punishments for anyone overstaying their visas.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Not sure i put this in the correct section, so please move it if needed.

Whould it be possible to have a international citizenship and pass port for those who do not feel they belong to the country they was born in?

What would be needed for this to work?
There's something like this already.

Stateless persons are supposed to have the right to travel documents issued by their host country:

What happens to refugees and stateless persons who have no passport? - Uniting Aviation

... but in practice, most countries don't issue travel documents to stateless persons. Some do.

Of course, becoming a stateless person isn't just a matter of disliking the country where you have citizenship.
 
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