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How Our Lives Would Be Different If We Were Born and Lived Elsewhere
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How Our Lives Would Be Different If We Were Born and Lived Elsewhere

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Jim Buie
Nov 21, 2022
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When living abroad, I was acutely aware of the accident of birth, and how the countries or regions we are born into or live for most or all of our lives strongly influence who we are, or at least our places in society and the world.

My grandson was born in Dubai in 2015. Unfortunately, that did not make him an Emirati entitled to all of the social benef…

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