english: From newspapers, textbooks, conversations, I had learned to speak of countries as if they were eternal, singular, naturally occurring things, but I wondered: to say that I came from a country suggested that the country was an absolute, some fixed point in place in time, a constant thing, but was it?
non_english: Iz novina, udžbenika, razgovora, naučila sam da govorim o državama kao večnim, jedinstvenim, prirodnim tvorevinama, ali sam se zapitala: biti poreklom iz neke države - znači da je država jedno savršeno, učvršćeno mesto u vremenu, jedna konstanta, ali, da li je?