Nationalism is ahistoric

Memorable pithy truth from Nayan Chanda, of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

We riffed on that, and much else, in the golden twilight of a Swedish midsummer evening at the Tällberg Forum in June.

I love the way he breaks down South-North migration as an inevitable consequence of "globalization". Check out his essay: Globalization Comes Full Circle. And the wonderfully lucid powerpoint presentation of his book, Bound Together.

Just one of the many illuminating factoids therein:

there are more Malawian doctors practicing medicine in the northern English city of Manchester than in all of Malawi, with its population of 13 million.