The Importance Of Borders

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“Borders” provide readers with a key situation for postmodern culture how to cross national

boundaries in a potentially borderless world. From the story, it stated that “We were in the

border office for about 4hours, and we talked to almost everyone there. Border crossings

are potentially places of Anxiety, one of them is when the Native Canadian tribe crossed a

border to other country, they must have a valid passport according to American laws,

because the guard of the border wanted to record who travels in and out the U.S. of

America. The guard would not let them pass until they knew the citizenship of the

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