Roxana,
We all have different cards which serve different purposes, but here in the UK
there is no one single identification card that you would use for all these
purposes. You need a library card to borrow books, a cheque guarantee card to
write a cheque at a shop but neither of these cards have a photograph. As for
entereing businesses etc, you might have to sign in with the security guard but
I've rarely had to show photo id, despite the fact that I live in Northern
Ireland where security has always been an issue. The fact that we carry these
around with us every day probably does show that we are in fact disciplined to
do so, it's just a more subtle form that your government id card.
Roxana Kreimer wrote:
> Thank you all for the new information about the identification card. I live
> in a country that has had military goberments for decades, so I hope you can
> understand why I ask these new questions about the same subject:
>
> Here, in Argentina, when you go for example to a newspaper, or to any great
> business firm, or to a state department, or even to a library, to get in or
> to borrow a book, you need to show your identification card. All of you that
> live in the commonwealth countries enter to all these places without showing
> anything? And in a bank, to have the money of a check, what do you show?
> Here you cannot have the money if you dont identifie yourself with the
> identification card.
>
> Other military uses: each day at school kids stand in line as militars and
> sing a military song to the flag. They walk in lines, as in the army.
> Military discipline is in kids everyday life.
>
> I will regret new information. It is too obvious to say it, but this is a
> Foucaultian subject
We all have different cards which serve different purposes, but here in the UK
there is no one single identification card that you would use for all these
purposes. You need a library card to borrow books, a cheque guarantee card to
write a cheque at a shop but neither of these cards have a photograph. As for
entereing businesses etc, you might have to sign in with the security guard but
I've rarely had to show photo id, despite the fact that I live in Northern
Ireland where security has always been an issue. The fact that we carry these
around with us every day probably does show that we are in fact disciplined to
do so, it's just a more subtle form that your government id card.
Roxana Kreimer wrote:
> Thank you all for the new information about the identification card. I live
> in a country that has had military goberments for decades, so I hope you can
> understand why I ask these new questions about the same subject:
>
> Here, in Argentina, when you go for example to a newspaper, or to any great
> business firm, or to a state department, or even to a library, to get in or
> to borrow a book, you need to show your identification card. All of you that
> live in the commonwealth countries enter to all these places without showing
> anything? And in a bank, to have the money of a check, what do you show?
> Here you cannot have the money if you dont identifie yourself with the
> identification card.
>
> Other military uses: each day at school kids stand in line as militars and
> sing a military song to the flag. They walk in lines, as in the army.
> Military discipline is in kids everyday life.
>
> I will regret new information. It is too obvious to say it, but this is a
> Foucaultian subject