On loyalties

“In 1994, a poster put up on the streets of Berlin poked fun at loyalties to frames no longer able to contain the world’s realities:

‘Your Christ is a Jew. Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your democracy- Greek. Your coffee- Brazilian. Your holiday- Turkish. Your numbers- Arabic. Your letters- Latin. Only your neighbour is a foreigner.”

Zigmunt Bauman, Identity, polity press, Cambridge (2004), p.27.

The phrase quoted after Hanna Mamzer, Tozsamosc w podrozy (Poznan, 2002), p. 13.