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| 11 May 2013 11:34 PM |
| Aside from citizenship, but I mean, technically he's not Canadian by birth. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:36 PM |
Wait. NVM
Born to Welsh Mother, and English father in South Africa. Moved to Canada at young age.
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| 11 May 2013 11:36 PM |
| His mother is Welsh, his father is English, he was born in South Africa. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:38 PM |
So he was a citizen of Canada, but not really Canadian, if you catch what I mean.
Like if you moved from the USA to say, Italy, you're technically still American by birth, but hold Italian citizenship. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:41 PM |
which is what I'm trying to say.
You can hold citizenship in a place, but that doesn't make you of that country's ethnicity.
I guess it just depends if you consider that holding citizenship=being apart of that country like
holding Canadian citizenship=being Canadian.
He does (did?) have duel-citizenship I would assume though. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:42 PM |
Like if a child is born to a German Mother and a British Father.
The Child would have German and British citizenship if born in Britain. Because of the one parent with citizenship.
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| 11 May 2013 11:43 PM |
| But the child would be of German and British ethnicity/descent. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:45 PM |
| so is Steve Nash Canadian, African, or European. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:47 PM |
but having citizenship doesn't really make you American.
I guess it all depends on how you view it. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:49 PM |
| One side of my family has been settled in the US for over 200 years. Am I an American by your awkward logic? |
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| 11 May 2013 11:51 PM |
my awkward logic is that holding citizenship in a country doesn't make you said country's ethnicity.
I was born in Baltimore, I am however, Italian and Polish. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:52 PM |
| So the logic here is what ever your parents are that's what you TRULY are? |
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| 11 May 2013 11:53 PM |
Then according to you. Nobody is really truly American.
Even the Native Americans immigrated. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:54 PM |
Not at all courage.
And Yonnd, can you be of truly American descent?
Unless you're native american, in a way, no.
You can hold citizenship, sure, but descent is different. |
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| 11 May 2013 11:56 PM |
| Family has been in the States for centuries, but still Scottish/Welsh heritage. |
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