There are many functions that a border can serve as weather it’s a physical aspect, mental barrier, or an emotional boundaries. But what a purpose a border serves as is a different tool, a border is aspect to divides or separate 2 political or geographical areas. In other cases it is used as a mental barrier which is what we put our minds into which separates from us doing something or acting upon something. While an emotional boundaries putting something in place to divide or separating your emotional from someone else’s. Which brings in personal space which is very important to me, but there are many factors that play into it, like physical, mental, emotional, and material boundaries. These aspects of personal space play a big …show more content…
This border separating Mexico and the United States from each other reverses a variety of terrains ranging from major urban areas to uninhabitable deserts, It is the most frequently crossed controlled international boundary in the world, with approximately 350 million legal crossings annually, with its main intent to keep illegal immigrants out of the country, but presidential candidate Donald Trump’s desire to build a new wall between the 2 countries has caused an uproar between officials who agree and disagree with the idea, which leads people to consider what it means to have a border. Even the author discusses the facts of setting a physical border down we are “geographic beings’ for whom the creation of places, and by consequences the process of bordering, seems natural. But borders are not ‘natural’ phenomena they exist in the world only to the extent that humans regard them as human” (Diener and Hagen pg. 16). And even goes to saying “ the replacement of frontiers with clearly delineated borders reframed human identity and most social processes by ensnaring them in what political geographers commonly refer to as the