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Tear down this wall!

Walls — the seemingly harmless structures have always been the subject of controversies, debates, and therefore politics. Donald Trump only stoked the emotions around them and reintroduced it to the millennials and Gen Z. Ironically, the last time when walls polarized people, it was again the US President, Ronald Reagan, who called for tearing down the Berlin Wall. His famous " Tear down this wall!" speech resonated with people across the world.  To be fair, Uncle Sam's love-hate relationships with walls is not hypocrisy but politics. It stems from the philosophy of John Locke that advocates the ideas, " people are naturally free " and " states possess territorial rights ." Uncle Sam takes refuge in these ideas, respectively, to justify his stance on the "Berlin Wall" and the " Trump wall ". And, it is not just Uncle Sam, walls and the controversies they beget are common across the world and thought-out history. The purpose of wall