From newspapers, textbooks, conversations, I had learned to speak of countries as if they were eternal, singular, naturally occurring things, but I wondered: to say that I came from a country suggested that the country was an absolute, some fixed point in place in time, a constant thing, but was it?
从报纸，书本，对话中， 我了解到当我们在谈论国家时， 好像它们是永恒、独一、 自然发生的事情， 但是我仍有疑问： 说我来自某一个国家， 是说明那个国家是一个绝对的概念， 时空下某个固定的点， 是持续不变的事情， 但是是这样吗？