my country right or wrong?

»»    Regrettably, most people don't think -- at least about their own identity.  It's so much easier simply to accept whatever labels others bestow upon us.  When people ask ME if I'm American, I reply, "I'm from America" -- not because I hate the country of my birth, but because I simply don't identify with it.  I don't identify wholly with ANY country.  To most people my answer is not so much wrong as just incomprehensible, for "the nation" is such a key part of their own identity, the single largest, most powerful group to which they belong -- always provided, naturally, that everyone else in the group agrees to let them in. >> >>

I agree with what you said.  I am a person from America and found it remarkable while traveling to visit Uganda in Africa, that the people in another country can be very similar to those I know here in the U.S.  These peoples lives are different for sure, but at the same time simply the lives of human beings.  So I found that maybe there is, for the person of an open mind, a sense of unity around the globe between all peoples, and it is humanity.  What I found were people, thanks to their sharing the same language with me, that I could not only be friendly with, but in some profound ways also be personal with.  Right now I am a penpal with one of the people I met there. I never imagined I would make such a good friend by simply being open and personally human!          

When people have to admit the personhood of all peoples, even all the cultural groups in their own home countries, they will find it very hard to ignore the needs of others and certainly find it difficult to harm others if they see the other nations of the world as human as well.  When we all have to admit that all people are personally human, then the terrible crimes we have witnessed in the world's history will end.