Nationality as a convenience

There is an ongoing debate in the U.S about the  (rare) americans who renounce the U.S. citizenship to avoid paying taxes to the american coffers.This subject is loaded with a certain patriotic fervor: in the minds of Americans , the US citizenship is something  so enviable that only   ingratitude could possibly explain how   someone could give up this inominable privilege, especially considering that millions of people around the world risk their lives for the dream of a green card.

Still, among the most prominent former U.S. citizens, one can list the deceased commodities trader Marc Rich, who went into exile in Switzerland due to tax and legal issues with the U.S. government, the co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, who moved to Singapore at once, and pop singer Tina Turner, also a resident of Switzerland 

It is time to admit it: nationality is nothing more than a private clube.Just like anyone should be able to become a member and cease to be a member of any club and this should not cause awkwardness, so it should be with citizenship.

Trying to avoid someone to give up their citizenship even after paying ``exit taxes`` is trying to convert a country into a prison, just like Cuba or North Korea would do, if not in the physical sense, at least in the legal/institutional sense.
It has always been like this: people arbitrate their citizenships in search of a better/more productive life.I have a deep admiration for emigrants around the world.For those who renouced their citizenships for whatever reason.For those who hold a ``spare `` passport just in case ( im guilt of this sin).

Nationality arbitrators make the world a better place.Want proof? Think of Brazil, with its thousands of miles of beautiful beaches and all-year tropical climate.Unlikely as it seems, brazil has several athletes competing in the winter Olympics in Sochi.One could say they are not really brazilians: most just hold the brazilian passport as a convenience, since qualifying to the Olympics in , say, the US team would be really hard.A case in point: ice skater Isadora Williams: raised in the US, she barely speaks portuguese ( like most winter Olympics brazilian athletes, by the way) but they do a great service to Brazil: without they our participation in the winter Olympics would go from the pathetic to non-existant.So i see these ``brazilian`` athletes with great admiration.And certainly, Brazil is not the only country that hosts them.In a way, they are more patriotic than born-and-raised athletes: they adopt a country instead of just having an accidental relationship of being born there.
It is time for the world to realize:  nationality should be nothing more than a convenience: dropped when no longer needed.People are free.Countries do not really exist, they are an abstraction.People do.