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Question

Why do I as a black American continue to love and defend a country that treats me like an unwanted child? Jason Robinson


Answer

Tania Bruguera: Maybe what happens is that he doesn´t continue to love defend [inaudible] partly because of the way in which one has been [inaudible] respect for what the native country is, repsect for what is the country of one and what [inaudible] means. I think that also one never loses hope, hope can change, hope can [inaudible], hope to be able to do the things in a different way, decide in another way one´s [inaudible] and to change the attitude [inaudible]. Therefore one always keeps on loving [inaudible] loving it´s not that much the country but the idea [inaudible] the idea as one has in mind [inaudible] if one is loving is the possibility maybe not of the place as such but the possibilities which this place can have and maybe what one defends is their right to be able to create this future world, this world [inaudible]. [inaudible] there is one thing, it´s that [inaudible] in the recent time [inaudible] there is a continent [inaudible] it´s a bit archaic, a bit [inaudible] in this sense it´s an idea of having a native country [inaudible] I think that it would be better to see the native country as a totality of ideas of their [inaudible] which they put to the test a totality of ideas and therefore the native country of one doesn´t have to be the place where one has been born but it can be the place where one feels to have an opportunity to propose these more ideas and one thinks that or sees that the things are fulfilling, that is, the native country doesn´t have to be then like a fisical state but a mental state or a political state.