It’s the Fourth of July, when the United States celebrates our Declaration of Independence from Britain, adopted on this day in 1776. When I was very young, I eagerly looked forward to July 4^th for the annual neighborhood picnics and evening fireworks. Then, as a young adult, I eschewed this holiday — I thought the celebrations reeked of a nationalist pride that was incongruent with how I often saw my country showing up at home and in the world….