00:00Amid, what do you think? Is it a way that stitches together a very robust community, this sense that you're more than the nation that you're from? Or is it a problem? Is it a positive? Is it a negative?
00:14I believe it depends on how we look at the sense of identity and the belonging, especially the national identity. If we look at it from, for example, Churchill's viewpoint, which is not necessarily left, I might not agree with him in so many things.
00:33But when he reacts to Aliens Act, for example, in 1905, he describes something as the old tolerant and generous idea of free entry and asylum seeker as a part of this sense of identity of the British people.
00:52So I believe that the sense of identity is something negotiated. It's not something rigid. It creates an opportunity of dialogue between the cultures that reside next to each other.
01:04I believe that as far as it depends on the situation that people will kind of be in charge of creating that sense of identity, as long as the government is not trying to interfere and to impose it on either side of this kind of unbalanced discussion that we see these days,
01:27either in favor of imposing a very solid definition of national identity or to kind of artificially promoting certain minority cultures without those communities actually want the government to do that,
01:46then we will have a dynamic that will thrive. And in that sense, yes, I think the national identity is a positive.
01:57I think the national identity is a positive.
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