Simon Lennon

A Land to Belong Simon Lennon

Nationalism is community: compatriots caring for each other. Nation states are in people's individual and collective interests.

If the West really believed all races are the same, we would see in ourselves what we respect in others: our yearning for a collective connection to country. We would only accept immigrants from countries accepting the same immigrants from us: bilateral immigration.

We would do what countries outside the West do. Aside perhaps from a few specific categories of resident applicant or noteworthy individuals, we would not offer foreigners citizenship. Homes for everyone are homes for no one.

Generous as we are, we might grant our friends refuge if we must, but only refuge and only for as long as they need it. There will never be solutions to other countries' problems while we admit the people who could solve them.