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A nation that makes its boundary wider by reading its members as people who came from other lands, so those who come now read as inside it.

Nation of immigrants (noun) means: A nation that makes its boundary wider by reading its members as people who came from other lands, so those who come now read as inside it. It emerges from collective self, boundary, narrative, in-group: The story of the group's past makes crossing into it the thing its members have in common, so a new crossing reads as joining that story instead of coming from outside it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

nation-of-immigrants.arrival · forms: a nation of immigrants, country of immigrants, land of immigrants, nation of immigrants

ordinarily means: a country whose identity is described as built by people who arrived from elsewhere

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self boundary narrative in-group cross nation make wide read member people come land time inside
through: The story of the group's past makes crossing into it the thing its members have in common, so a new crossing reads as joining that story instead of coming from outside it.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (551 steps)

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 7 more not shownnation of immigrantsL19nation-of-immigrants.arrival — A nation that makes its boundary wider by reading its members as people who came from other lands, so those who come nowcollective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.narrativeL18narrative.self-story — A story a self model tells about its own past and future, which sets which actions read as its own.in-groupL16in-group.inside — The members a collective self reads as inside its boundary.crossL4cross.pass — To go through a boundary from one place to another.nationL18nation.political — a group of people who have a government and live within a bounded areamakeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usual

Relations

contrasts-withoutsiders-coming-in.crossingthe inverse reading of the same crossing
abstractsnarrative.self-storythe boundary is widened through the story the group tells of its past

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md