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So OP, by your definition, am I, as a person of African descent with no other culture, American?
Man, what an Old World, 19th century way of thinking about things.
Really, what's so hard to understand about this point? Nationality and citizen are two different things but the former is simply based on your lineage. I can't birth a child in England and all of a sudden my child is English. Sure my child could get citizenship with the Government but that doesn't make England her or his nation.
Really, what's so hard to understand about this point? Nationality and citizen are two different things but the former is simply based on your lineage. I can't birth a child in England and all of a sudden my child is English. Sure my child could get citizenship with the Government but that doesn't make England her or his nation.
Words and their meanings don't change.
Words and their meanings don't change.
So OP, by your definition, am I, as a person of African decent with no other culture, American?
Words and their meanings don't change.
Habits you pick up don't define your nation state. What country in Africa are you from?
Absolutely false.
The hell if I know, wherever my ancestors were bought from?Habits you pick up don't define your nation state. What country in Africa are you from?
So OP, by your definition, am I, as a person of African descent with no other culture, American?
Don't even entertain the OP. He doesn't seem intelligent tbh, or he's trolling.
The OP is arguing for jus sanguinis, right of the blood, as the only deciding point in nationality. Jus Soli, or right of the soil, is another way to decide nationality, and the OP claims is invalid.
Here is a map of those that factor in jus soli to decide nationality (Dark blue is no restriction, light blue is some restrictions)
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Come again?
Are we all just going to ignore the giant block of conspiracy he posted halfway down the page alleging the US isn't "free" or some shit like that?
I'd love to see you expand on this instead of just dropping some quote from a representative and then moving on, OP.
Can you put that in English lol. Do you mean the blue countries decide nationality based on whether you are a citizen/live there and the others go more by birth place?
Sure, you can't birth a child in England and then claim to be a descendant of England, but if living and growing and understanding English culture better than your ancestry then you'd probably consider yourself English.
Can you put that in English lol. Do you mean the blue countries decide nationality based on whether you are a citizen/live there and the others go more by birth place?
The hell if I know, wherever my ancestors were bought from?
I respectfully disagree.
I respectfully disagree.
you cray crayIn a older thread I made a comment on how Europeans born in America aren't Americans, they are what their parents lineage is so if your ancestors are Irish or English and you were born here in America, you're Irish or English who so happens to have US citizenship. The US is a corporate entity, not a country, which occupies a portion of North America. America denotes a continent, not country, so why do we ignorantly accept America as the particular landmass the US occupies?
Nation:
c.1300, from Old French nacion "birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe," literally "that which has been born," from natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually predominated, but earliest English examples inclined toward the racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to North American Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=n&p=2
Your nationality isn't based on where you're born but your pedigree, lineage and descent. If a English couple birth a child in Japan, is that child Japanese? No, the child is what his or her parents are but he or she can gain citizenship, basically a contract with the Government, with the Japanese Government, but doesn't mean he or she is all of a sudden Japanese because her or his lineage and descent is English, not Japanese.
American:
A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=American&use1828=on
Notice how it says originally, what's original is the basis of learning the true meaning of words. Connotation has no place in the origin of a word's meaning and sadly enough, our language and understanding is based on connotative understanding which suppresses the culture.
Jus sanguinis is what determines one's Nation state or nationality, not where they're born.
Umm.....what?Oh, you believe your people were brought to America, ok but that's another discussion I can do.
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Oh, you believe your people were brought to America, ok but that's another discussion I can do.
US citizens, pretty much anyone can become a citizen of the United States but that still doesn't make them the people of the land, get it?The OP is arguing for jus sanguinis, right of the blood, as the only deciding point in nationality. Jus Soli, or right of the soil, is another way to decide nationality, and the OP claims is invalid.
Here is a map of those that factor in jus soli to decide nationality (Dark blue is no restriction, light blue is some restrictions)
You can see a pattern emerging.
Yeah they do.
Oh, you believe your people were brought to America, ok but that's another discussion I can do.
I respectfully disagree.
Oh, you believe your people were brought to America, ok but that's another discussion I can do.
Can you put that in English lol. Do you mean the blue countries decide nationality based on whether you are a citizen/live there and the others go more by birth place?
JS is citizenship by ancestory/"blood". The other is whether you were born on their soil.
Let's take France as an example since it recognizes both (with some limitations and requirements though):
"Right of blood"/ "Jus sanguinis" = your parents were French
"Right of soil"/ "Jus soli" = your were born in France
Where the hell is this going?
Oh, you believe your people were brought to America, ok but that's another discussion I can do.
So, like a hundred years ago, some of my great grandparents came over from Germany. That makes me German? What about the fact that their ancestors came from some other country? Do we have to trace our lineage back to the beginning of time to figure out what nationality I actually am?
Connotation, denotation, learn them.
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