Whats your nationality???

[orihime-san]

Just wanted to ask cause I want to be friends with people from other country...

[GaiSensei]

Well that's nice of you, but nationality shouldn't really matter ^^

 

If you're still curious, I'm Puerto Rican.

[Delusiah]

I'm from the US... But it really shouldn't matter...

[Ayame_Sohma]

Im half germany and half Seychellois

[Eris]

Here we go again, before it all breaks loose, I'm C&P:ing my usual rant on nationalities.


Let's look up the word nationality.

"... the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization ..." or "Nationality is, in English usage, the legal relationship between a person and a country."

In other words, "What is your nationality?" is nearly equivalent of of asking "in what country do you live?"

You don't inherit nationalty--you're born into a nation, true, but you don't inherit it from your parents, it's more like you inherit it from the soil beneath your feet. You can also change your nationality (so to speak, in reality this often means to gain an additional nationality) by migrating into another nation, as well as you can renounce a nationality. Say I were to move to Norway, and renounce my Swedish nationality, then I would only have a Norwegian nationality.

What I want said is: Your origins is not your nationality, the color of your skin is not your nationality, your heritage is not your nationalty.

You can definetly not be more of one nationality than another. You can't be 1/3 german and 2/3 french. That would mean that you are have twice as much a french than a german nationality. You either have a nationality, or you don't have it. Beyond that, you can't "measure" how much of a nationality you have it.

Thus endeth the rant.

I'm of Swedish nationality.

[zyronet]

Oh well..
I bet same as yours..
Pure Pinoy! I mean Filipino.

[Petrol Gas]

I'm American (to satisfy eris) but I'm just white.



...lol

[riyo himura]

malaysian but i'm not malay

[CapnJack]

American.

I wonder what percentage (&#37 of the AF'ers are American? I shouldnt think that the majority of us are American. Makes me sound too egotistical, too pompus, too proud, too.... American. ^^;

Ayame Sohma: I kinda wondered what people from Seychelles where considered. I would have said Seychellians. Sorry if it sounds like 'aliens'. ^^;

[bttr]

I'm Irish and like it! (:

[danie-chan]

>< Yeah... Filipino here... ><

[Eris]

American.

I wonder what percentage (&#37 of the AF'ers OUR American? I shouldnt think that the majority of us are American. Makes me sound too egotistical, too pompus, too proud, too.... American. ^^;

It's hard to say. The US has a fairly low percentage of people with internet access, though it's got a fairly large amount of people. It would probably be fairer to compare US vs. EU, or NA vs. Asia or something like that on that note.

[Relic]

You can definetly not be more of one nationality than another. You can't be 1/3 german and 2/3 french. That would mean that you are have twice as much a french than a german nationality. You either have a nationality, or you don't have it. Beyond that, you can't "measure" how much of a nationality you have it.

actually you can be of more than one nationality...it is called duel citizenship

plus one can be of two nationalities if one is born in a country other than the one that one is raised (such as born while ones parents are on vacation then returned to the "home" country)

[Eris]

actually you can be of more than one nationality...it is called duel citizenship

You're misinterpreting me, I actually said exactly that in my post; what I'm saying is that you can't be say more (or less) say American than you are say German.

You are reversing "more of" to "of more". Not the same meaning.

[Relic]

once again you could be... duel citizenship by international law allows you to only vote and claim a permanent home in one of the countries so there for if you had duel citizenship in the USA and the say Canada and you claimed your right to vote and your permanent home in the USA you would thereby be more "American" than you were "Canadian"

[Ange]

actually you can be of more than one nationality...it is called duel citizenship

isnt it called "dual"

--I'm a Filipino, by the way..
Nationality doesn't matter to me too but culture does.

[Relic]

isnt it called "dual"

--I'm a Filipino, by the way..
Nationality doesn't matter to me too but culture does.

oops...thanks for pointing that out i was paying to much attention to spelling and did not make sure i was using the right word ^^

[Froggydude]

> > Croatian

[dreamStar]

Hehe. Yeah, it's called Dual Nationality. I have it. I'm half-German, half-Bangladeshi. Dat would be a really tiny country right beside India.
By the way, you didn't say where you're from.

[Relic]

oh sorry about that

i am American born and raised in California

[elizabethswann]

im proud to be a......




FILIPINO!!! wooo!!!

[NiesaxShiori]

Malaysian here.... ^^
Malaysia Boleh!!

[Eris]

once again you could be... duel citizenship by international law allows you to only vote and claim a permanent home in one of the countries so there for if you had duel citizenship in the USA and the say Canada and you claimed your right to vote and your permanent home in the USA you would thereby be more "American" than you were "Canadian"

No, you still only have as much of a nationality as the other. They are not "worth" more, and you can change this home between the nations as you like. Living in a country is not part of the definition of nationality, so that is entirely irrelevant to how "much" of a nationality you have. In any case, you can't quantify it, you can't say you're N% more American than you are Canadian.

[jechocochan]

I hail from Australia.

[Neko Yasha]

I'm American, but my dad is Spanish. It's interesting to know what other peoples' nationalities are, but it shouldn't affect who is your friend.

 

Btw, my mom is also Puerto-Rican, Gaisensei