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Okay hi I want to clear something up.
This is aimed mostly toward Americans because you do it the most, but really is for anyone who does this.
When a survey or a person or whatever asks what your nationality is, you do not go listing every country your ancestors are from.
That is not your nationality. Your nationality is American (or wherever you are from), like it or not.
Let's say your great grandparents are from Germany. They are German.
You are not German. You are American.
Unless you are a citizen of that country, you do not belong to that country. So if you do not hold citizenship in Italy, you are not Italian.
The only exception there really is to this is if one or more of your parents are from that country because in that case you more than likely are eligble to be a citizen if you aren't already.
Where your ancestors come from is your ethnicity, not your nationality.
If someone asks what your ethnicity is, that's different, go ahead and list all the different places your family is from, but please stop saying "well I'm 1/4 German and 1/16 Japanese" when people ask your nationality. 
You have no idea how much it annoys other people. 

 

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Okay hi I want to clear something up. This is aimed mostly toward

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rebecca*

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poodlelomein35 · 1 decade ago
I'm 50% Irish and 50% Indian. I consider myself Indian and Irish even though I'm not a citizen of those countries
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
I'm assuming you mean like one parent is from Ireland and one parent is from India?? If that's the case then yeah I mentioned that in my quote that if a parent is from that country it still counts because you are more than likely eligible to be a citizen even if you aren't one already and even if you aren't aware that you are
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
I'm confused bc this had a thumbs up and for some reason someone felt the need to thumbs it down these quote rate things are literally so stupid because whenever someone gets mad at me they go through and thumbs down things that shouldn't be at all like really why
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Chlohoey · 1 decade ago
do people seriously not understand the difference between ethnicity and nationality are you f//UCKING

i'm going to say something to try and help explain it ((yo baca i got your back kinda))
when you travel to different countries by plane, you have to fill out a report
on that report, it will ask you your nationality
you do not list British, Irish, Welsh, Italian, Greek, French, or any of that s//hit because that is not your nationality
you were not born in any of those countries
you are not a LEGAL CITIZEN of those countries
you were born in america
you are an american citizen, and more than likely only an american citizen
you are american
that is your nationality
your ethnicity would be British, Irish, Welsh, Italian, Greek, French, etc.

if you're stupid and you don't understand any of that, then maybe don't comment on this quote anymore, or at all, because you are embarrassing yourself.
that is all, good day.
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
PRAISE THE LORD YEEZUS AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS A BRAIN
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Chlohoey · 1 decade ago
yeezus
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
what the hecky are u a hater
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Chlohoey · 1 decade ago
yes
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
wow did u give me a thumbs down u
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Chlohoey · 1 decade ago
u qwhat
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
it censored out whatever i said i do not remember
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Chlohoey · 1 decade ago
wow you're using inappropriate language??? did u know 10 yr olds get on herE?? what the funky heck is your problem
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
what the funky hecky
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smiley_tana* · 1 decade ago
i don't approve this message. stupid american.
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smiley_tana* · 1 decade ago
go home you're drunk.
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
what the hecky
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sweetiexpie · 1 decade ago
Umm in America...we are diverse and yes, we are all those nationalities.
You see.. America is a country not like any other because we have people from all over the world here.
Usually people in other countries only have ancestors from that same country so you can't say you are anything else because it isn't in your blood.
I understand that isn't your culture...but it's ours.
So now.. I am English, Italian, Brazilian, Greek, and a whole hellll of a lot others because that's how we do it here in America.
sorry
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
Also, I live in America, so you do not "understand that it isn't (my) culture" because you don't understand I AM AMERICAN. I'm a British and American citizen and it is so annoying when I say I'm British and somebody else says yeah me too when they are fully American, born in America to two American parents. They are not British to me, an actual British person and the rest of the world sees it that way too.
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
Your nationality and ethnicity are not the same thing.
Your nationality is where you hold citizenship.
Do you mean to tell me you are a British, Italian, Brazilian, Greek, AND American citizen?
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sweetiexpie · 1 decade ago
Ooops well you sounded pretty anti American.
I never said I was a citizen of any of those...
But my NATIONALITIES are those.
I have every right to say what is in my family because whether it be my parents or great, great, great, great grandparents... that country is in my blood and I'm proud to be that nationality.
Thing I do know is that I am an American Citizen and I have this thing called freedom soooo
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rebecca* · 1 decade ago
You are completely misunderstanding me.
Go open up your AMERICAN passport and look at the section for nationality. All it will say is American because that is your only nationality.
Ethnically you are all the things you listed but nationality wise you are not.
They are not synonyms.
That was the point of this quote and you utterly missed it.
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