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humanitarian disasters, involve more an imperialist than a cosmopolitan
imagining (Stevenson, 1999 , 2007). Certainly, it seems that, even as pro-
cesses of globalization mean that we all increasingly share a common fate
across borders and that, perhaps, a common sense of humanity may
slowly be growing, most people continue to identify more readily with
strangers connected by bonds of nationality than with strangers outside
the nation.