Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.