{"id":3770,"date":"2007-10-23T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/23\/nationality\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T22:13:51","slug":"nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No Snow Here <a href=\"http:\/\/nosnowhere.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/15\/what-the-f\/\">blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week, I saw a commercial on TV. Several shots of people saying things like \u201cI am American,\u201d \u201cI am Korean,\u201d and \u201cI am Indian.\u201d When I heard the words, \u201cI am Israeli,\u201d I shouted some expletives at the screen. WTF!? And I shouted some more expletives when I learned that apparently the \u201cright\u201d to a nationality is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthforhumanrights.org\/index.htm\">Youth For Human Rights International<\/a>\u2019s 15th human right (just not for Palestinians, who have no rights, human or otherwise).\u00a0 First, Israelis and Americans have no \u201cright\u201d to a national identity. Israelis and Americans have a national identity that exists on the backs and dead bodies of indigenous people, so I don\u2019t even want to hear that bullsh#@. Second, most people in this world have a national identity that was entirely invented and forced upon them by colonizers. Who drew those lines on the map? Who constructed and named those countries? Uh huh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=k7JrqYA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=k7JrqYA\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=TvHb6la\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=TvHb6la\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=qiw1p0A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=qiw1p0A\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=YJkc1Ca\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=YJkc1Ca\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Snow Here blogs:<br \/>\nEarlier this week, I saw a commercial on TV. Several shots of people saying things like \u201cI am American,\u201d \u201cI am Korean,\u201d and \u201cI am Indian.\u201d When I heard the words, \u201cI am Israeli,\u201d I shouted some expletives at the screen. WTF!? And I shouted some more expletives when I learned that [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}