Reflection time

So, this week the big event was the state department trip. In the end, it wasn't much of a tour and more of a debriefing. That was a disappointment as I was expecting at least a brief tour of the rooms and perhaps one of the rooms where they host important events.
Next, in class we talked about citizenship and its requirements. We talked about it in regards to an alien race and even just human aliens. It was an interesting discussion in the fact that we seemed to agree that if the aliens were human we could do pretty much whatever we want as we are the world's only superpower and no other single nation can stand against us for to long. However, we disagreed on what would happen if it were an alien race. Several of us thought that the world would unite and either fight the aliens or try and make peace with them. The others thought that it would divide the world even more and the nation that allied with the aliens would try and take over the rest of the world.
A hegemony, the United States, has little to fear from other nations but it does have reason to fear an alien race. Whether or not the appearance of aliens would divide or unite the world is yet to be seen and we only have sci-fi movies to see possible results.