Can I define myself as a German?

[Nihilist__]

I am a huge fan of Germany, German language and culture and everything about Germany. I want to call myself as German. It is always about how you define yourself right?

[genericname85]

I mean you can but for that you gotta come here and get a citizenship. Identities generally aren't peoples individual choices. they generally need real world factual basis and societal agreement. If you hold an identity lacking any factual truth or social approval, you're nothing but a fool.

[Agape93]

You're not german, you're a germanophile. I have german ancestry. I have German relatives. I've lived in Germany. I speak German. But guess what? I'm not German. I'm American.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Heutzutage identifizieren sich Menschen mit den unterschiedlichsten Dingen; wenn du also Deutscher sein willst, kannst du das auch sein.

[purplepoppy]

Nationality is more a state of mind rather than accident of birth. Up until WW1 most people i England saw themselves as Germans.

[DryGermanGuy]

The famous Anglo-Saxons! ☝️

[purplepoppy]

The Welsh word for English is still Saesneg (saxon)

[Smashingdoozy]

You aren't German unless you were born there/spent most of your life growing up there/ have German in your close lineage

[Kvass]

You can only define yourself as a Temu German

[capriVib]

Yeah, after a brain transplant, maybe.

[In_Trance]

Fkn retarded