The Nautilus: Where Are You From?

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Where are you from? While everyone is different we all have a nationality that forms a unique bond between people but at the same time may push away from others.Why can’t we all be close to each other not because of our nationality but because we are friends? People can be closer to people of the same nationality because they share common interests and will normally celebrate the same holidays but what if everyone celebrated the same holidays everyone would be closer to everyone else.The men of the Nautilus were this way they all were bonded by their nationality so they closer to each other and not closer to Aronnax, Ned, and Council. Nationality can be important to many but to others it is not important. Many humans believe nationality is

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