What Makes Someone a Citizen of Another Country (Page 2)

[Anonymous]

Basically you're a citizen of another country but brought up here, there are many actors that are in that same position. It's hard to classify what you're in a way but technically you're not American if you're not born here but I do get what you mean though

[emerald77]

I agree. If you only lived in your birth country for two years, then you probably don't even remember much of the place and the culture.

[Paris13]

When I had Married my Husband out in Egypt, I had a Chance to Become, hun, a Citizen. xx

[Anonymous]

Yea just because you grew up in one country doesn't make you a citizen. if you're not white then you're not French. If that woman is black she's from Africa. Just like brown people aren't Americans, though they will say they are, there from Mexico or some brown skin country like that.

[curiousnorway]

Appearance hasn't anything to do with which nationality you belongs to in my opinion. I thinks it's how well you speaks the language and if you're following the culture in addition to having a citizenship.

I'm Norwegian because I've Norwegian citizenship, talks the language fluently and follows the country's culture. I've been here my whole life and have Norwegian parents although I've an Asian appearance and is adopted from China. I've very little knowledge about China and can't any Chinese words. So would I qualify myself as a Chinese then today?

[RolandCuthbert]

@curiousnorway CN, have you met a poster named Atreyu?

[TacosRAwesome]

You can become a citizen in my country by literally buying a passport. Otherwise birth and living there for at least 5 years.

[Anonymous]

I have a USA citizenship, born in laos, lived in italy, travelled all over the world, married to a United States soldier...

[Anonymous]

Through the law but other than the law I think embracing your new country and what they have to offer.

[Iron_Man]

It depends on your parents what there citizenship is but if you're born in the USA you're in America instantly

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

And if a person is born outside the USA, but has at least one parent as a citizen he is still American.

John McCain was born in Peru.

[Iron_Man]

Good

[John_Doesnt]

I thought about becoming a citizen of Canada a couple months ago.

[meganthemenace]

Lots of documentation and experience.. Along with Visas.

[Deathraider]

In the United States: Either being born, or going through the process.

[Anonymous]

If the parents were not legal then the kid isn't either.

[Anonymous]

Isn't that up to the government of the country to decide?

[LittleSally]

Citizenship, right?

[404filenotfound]

Paying taxes and owning/renting/leasing land

[realgrrrl]

Ethnicity.

Citizenship is citizenship though.

[DonkeyRick69]

Citizenship and even then your a foreign national.

[catelyntje]

Yes I agree with you it's strange

[Blitzkrieger]

A nation is bound by ethnicity.

[myTake Owner]

America would beg to differ

[Blitzkrieger]

America belongs to the natives of these regions.

[myTake Owner]

Not even the Natives believed that they could own the land--the land belonged to everyone. It wasn't until someone disagreed, that things got ugly.

[Blitzkrieger]

Look what happened to them now.

[Anonymous]

It's all about the paperwork