FOREIGN PRIME MINISTER
This conversation cropped up between me, my brother and my father not so long ago, and in retrospect I think it’s quite a controversial issue that could be discussed in more depth as our society pulls towards a multi-cultural system, while a minority lag behind with the nostalgia of what used to be.
But what is British? This island has been colonized for centuries, and so it’s difficult to find a pure Brit. I mean, just look at our monarchy (…but that’s a completely different argument). I sit here, with my Malaysian produced laptop, watching my Japanese manufactured TV, wearing my Italian T-Shirt, eating some Mexican cuisine. Quite a lot to be doing at one moment but treat it more as a symbolic metaphor.
The key is, over millions of years tectonic plates have digressed from the concept of Pangea, yet I feel now as a new decade begins, western civilization is something that is becoming collective rather than these individual entities. The UN, the EU, it’s accepted we have different cultures and values, but we all breathe the same air, and we’re all made from the same elements.
My point is, I’m in the progress of applying for a Green Card for the USA. If accepted, once nationalized, I have the same privileges as any other US civilian. Except I can’t run for presidency. For me, I can’t understand this. A nation which plagued it’s native ancestors does have a right to feel proud for their constitution and the infrastructure they now have in place. But why does this rule still live on that ensures no foreign blood can become president. Freedom of choice this nation cries; yet they cannot trust their 300 million strong population to formulate their own viewpoints on a given candidate?
That right there is where I tend to find people disagreeing with me. Politicians can lie, deceive, and we know power corrupts. But as a British Citizen if the majority of my fellow people elect a foreign born candidate; so be it. That should be the beauty of freedom and the power of the people. I think that the obstacles for these foreign candidates would be colossal, and the chance of it occurring would be minute. So why engrave it in stone that they don’t even have a chance to pitch their ideas to their residence, and acclaimed nationality?