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Having made myself at home in Edinburgh, I have taken advantage of Western Europe’s relative proximity to travel outside the country and into the continent. One such trip allowed me to travel to my birthplace, Hamburg, Germany, which is the country’s…

National Identity. To many, national identity quite simply means identifying with the culture, the practices, and the lifestyle of one’s country. However, recently, the term national identity has undertaken a negative connotation in relation to…

“#LondonIsOpen”—the hashtag hypnotically flashed over and over on a screen in London’s iconic Trafalgar Square as people around me grumbled, “We get the message already!” London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, launched the campaign “#LondonIsOpen” to send…