Ben Ward's Scattered Mind

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Citizenship with a small ‘c’: proof not of birth or naturalization, but rather of personal engagement in the virtues of community.

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This is something that has come to my mind quite a lot since I started living abroad. There’s a dissonance between the legal and emotional concepts of ‘residency’, ‘citizenship’ and nationality.

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