Borderless world simply means ‘A world without border’. This is a vision I exhaustively endorse; a world whereby nations are repeatedly made aware of the ongoing struggles and issues facing more stricken regions, bringing some much needed authenticity to the phrase ‘borderless world’. In large-scale responses to recent upheaval, we might choose to focus on ways to hear and see formerly invisible populations, and reclaim this century for what it has the potential to be: an age of collaboration, wherein dreams that used to take place only in comic books or on notepaper come to life in the name of borderless care for one another.
While it is easy to imagine a world without countries or borders, how exactly would this come to be? The view that national borders have become economically meaningless is controversial. Some analysts speculate that globalization has blurred the economic distinctions between countries, creating a “borderless world” in which economic decisions are made without reference to national boundaries. Borders can affect the economic activities in a number of ways. These political and legal boundaries, provide a means for governments to erect barriers to international flows of goods, services and factors of production. These measures take a vareity of forms and are instituted for a number of reasons. The economic impact attributed to the border might actually reflect the effects of geographic distance between markets. Also, borders are usually demarcations between currency areas.
It’s very idealistic to say things like ‘we created borders, god didn’t’ and how wonderful it is for for every creed and breed to live in harmony. Harsh reality is in a borderless world there will be no way to control terrorism, drug trafficking, hate crimes etc. A borderless world means a unified governing body. One body controlling and assimilating such absolute power will corrupt absolutely, interest of minorities might be ignored, income disparity will increase and the world will be in a state of chaos and general lawlessness. In an ideal world, secure borders would ensure that wanted movements—such as legal goods, tourists, students, and business people—can flow unimpeded across borders, while unwanted movements—such as terrorists, drugs, weapons, and unauthorized migrants—are blocked. Given that there is no single policy tool that alone can achieve this result, things will be hay-wired worldwide.
Looking at the present scenario of what is happening in the world around us, I find making the world borderless would in no way support the purpose of world peace and happiness we are thriving for. Its just not a matter of eradicating borders between regions, countries or continents, etc. Rather it should be meant to eradicate the imaginary border we have drawn within us which separates us from different cultures of the rest of the world. We want our region, religion or language to be considered different and better than others. That’s within us. So I feel we should think of border between mentality of different cultures first and then think of a borderless world as such.
-Tanvi Shah
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