Once there was a time when tribal instincts guaranteed the survival of the fittest. Once there were no hospitals but people used the blessings of nature to recover from diseases. Once giving birth to a child was as natural as killing an animal for food. And once humans were driven by such inexplicable drives that they could cause the annihilation of the whole civilization. As far as we did look different, we did wear strange clothes and ornamented ourselves in tattoos and jewelry, and we did hold extraordinary beliefs in supernatural forces, have we really changed that much over the centuries? Or do we still store the pristine urges which just wait for the right time to be released? Apocalypto.
I wonder what makes us think that ours is better, nicer and faster. Is it the language that we speak, is it our nationality or the food we consume that make us protect our country when it is invaded? What makes us die for what we consider our property? Why colonizing other countries always meant imposing one's language and culture? Why emigrating leads to being forced to learn those customs and languages which are inseparably connected to a particular country? Why do we have problems with being controlled by foreign nations? Why there is such a strong need for independence and freedom from imposition? Braveheart. Even though not all of us are Scottish, I have a feeling that we all know what belonging to a certain nation is all about.

