-246 You're not "one eighth Spanish" or "three fourteenths Egyptian," your nationality lies with wherever you've lived in the longest, amirite?

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I pride on my Latvian heritage.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I say I'm half Maltese, but only for the ladies. Hasn't worked yet.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Isn't a Maltese a type of dog?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

OMG u r right too funny

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/86651

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well I think that people feel a connection to their ancestry, especially when it's exotic. My ancestry goes about 90 miles to Pembrokeshire and no-where else, so I don't share their vivid sense of being a global citizen... Your nationality lies where you have grown up in my books, your citizenship where you have lived the longest, your ancestry where your parents etc are from.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I guess, if we're going to be technical about it, nationality means: "the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant. (Dictionary.com)" So, technically, your German mother and Canadian father could have birthed you in Egypt and flown you out the next day to live your next 20 years of life in Australia, and you could say your either Egyptian or Australian. But that's irrelevant. What I'm trying to get across is your not Irish because your mom and dad are from there. Do you know the history of the country? Do you eat the food? Have ever even been there? Etc. It just annoys me when people try to make themselves appear more exotic than they really are.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

exactly, its really annoying, im like, im english, and other people are like MEEE TOOO!!!!!! and then im like, really? and their like yeah totally my great grandma was from there!!!!!! itds like, cant you just love your own country?

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I'm half Egyptian. I've been there once a year since I was born...so 18 times? 19 if you consider when my mom was preggers with me..lol and my mom cooks "Egyptian" food all the time =)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hello, fellow daughter of the Nile!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, hi!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm half-welsh. Don't dis. >:O

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Me too :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Meh. I prefer to differentiate between nationality and ethnicity.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I agree. You can't change your ethnicity but you can change your nationality.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

My family has lived in Canada for the last +100 years but I moved to Saudi Arabia when I was 11 and have lived there the longest...does that make me Saudi Arabian? I don't think so. I don't speak the language, I'm not muslim, I'm a 5ft10 caucasian blonde. I'm still Canadian.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

"na⋅tion⋅al⋅i⋅ty   /ˌnæʃəˈnælɪti/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nash-uh-nal-i-tee] Show IPA Use nationality in a Sentence See images of nationality Search nationality on the Web –noun, plural -ties for 1, 2, 5, 6. 1. the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant." -- Dictionary.com I'd say living somewhere for at least 11+ years, going through two stages of life, qualifies as naturalization, so, by definition, you're both, you 5'10" Caucasian blond Saudi Arabian.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I don't disagree, but slightly off topic: if you ever quote the dictionary in an argument, you're probably an asshole.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Probably, unless it's an argument about language or semantics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

:( I wanted to see images of nationality but it wasn't a link. Stupid comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

First of all, it is weird that you've lived there most of your life and you can't speak the language. And it is really ignorant of you to state your height and hair colour, so you assume that no Saudis out there have your height or are blondes?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm an active participant in many Lithuanian events in Canada because my mother was born and raised there. Are you saying I am not Lithuanian in the least, and can't take pride in my heritage? Thanks. You made my day -.-

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Don't put words in my mouth. Oh, and you're welcome. ;)

by Anonymous 15 years ago

True, your nationality may be where you've lived the longest, but your HERITAGE is where you're ancestors are from and their nationalities combined, if that's how you want to look at it.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Nationality, yes. Ethnicity, no.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's a big difference between nationality and ethnicity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the "in" after "wherever you've lived" kinda bugs me :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you comment on like everything ever do you know what the sun is?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

wat?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry do you know there's this thing in the sky that gives us heat????????????????????????? maybe you havent heard of it

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That was really witty. You must be some kind of stand up comedian.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, but they're not talking about their nationality. They're talking about their ethnicity...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is common knowledge. Nationality is belonging to your nation. What you said refers to ethnicity. You either just stated a fact and passed it off as an opinion or you misunderstood the definitions between ethnicity and nationality, in which case you are factually wrong. Either way, I don't see how this became the POTD.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So... America has this whole segregation crap for however long and we still have racism because some people are "European-American/White" and others are "African-American/Black"... and you're saying we should just all call ourselves Americans? http://ctrlv.in/86589

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People grasp at straws with their ethnicity - "I'm a 1/24 Spanish!!! :D :D" - to try and seem special and exotic. Face it, if you're getting to the eighths and sixteenths, you're more the country you're in than what your great-grandparents were. You ain't foolin' no one. Bl

by Anonymous 12 years ago

incorrect. nationality lies where you were born, whatever your ethnic background or country of residence may be.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

since //nobody's// posted this yet smirk: Nationality 1. the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth OR NATURALIZATION: the nationality of an immigrant." -- Dictionary.com

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've lived in the US longer than anywhere else, but my nationality is Canadian.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People tend to be more proud of their heritage than their nationality. Especially if you live in America.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well I'm 1/34 martian....gotta take pride in my space heritage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's annoying when people are like "oooh, I'm from sooo many places omg lol" and they're just a mix of a bunch of European races. It's like, bitch, I'm only from one place and I'm more exotic than you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you're only from one place how are you more exotic? Is it Mercury? >_>

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yes

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you had one drop of black blood in you back before segregation ended you were treated as a full black even if it was 1/18 soo0o0o0o racist america strikes again

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wonder how they traced that. Because I mean, if you're 1/18th black people would probably assume you're white. On a somewhat related note, did Asians and all the rest just not exist before ~1950 in America?!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not too many Asians moved to America, and if they did it was in California, where they weren't treated very well, but payed for the work they did. A good example of it is in "East of Eden"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well what about all the other races?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They had the Chinese Exclusion Act for a while and this was already mentioned but a lot of Asians went to the west coast.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't like it when people say "I'm Italian" or "I'm Spanish". I think you should say what you are based on what says on your birth certificate. I say "I'm Brazilian" because I was born in brazil, and Lived there for 11 years. When I'm 23, I'll still say I'm Brazilian though: not just because I've lived in America for 12 years, does it mean I'm suddenly an American. I do have dual citizenship, but still consider myself as a Brazilian. Now, if someone says "my family is 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Irish," then (in my opinion) it's okay.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're more-or-less correct about the definition of nationality, but nationality and heritage aren't the same. One can be an American by nationality and be of partially Spanish/German/Moroccan/whatever heritage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is like saying "forget your culture and history" No. It's always important to remember your ancestral place of origin, don't let it be blurred by an assimilation into society.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When people say that they aren't talking about their nationality

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well it looks like 90% of the comments all say the exact same thing. Good times!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't know how I feel about this. Both my parents are 100% Egyptian. They were born and grew up there, but I was born and grew up the United States. It doesn't mean I forgot about my heritage or where I'm from, I still eat Egyptian food, read, write and speak the language and visit every once in a while. All that plus a dual citizenship. I hate having to chose between the United States and my family's background. Nationality has always been a problem for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yay, Egyptian! :D Did you vote

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can't yet, but my parents did! Exciting isn't it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep. I don't have voting rights yet too. Uhmm, out of mere curiosity; who did they vote for? Haha, I promise it won't head to a political debate. :p

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i think you can only be half something; if one of your parents are a different ethnicity than another. i hate it when people list off everything in their 'blood'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Example:My great, great, great, great, great, parents were Irish...so Im 2% Irish if that's what you mean then I agree =)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think nationality and heritage are two different things. I was born in Hawaii, but I'm not at all Hawaiian. And I've moved so many times, if I said I am only blank, I would be wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This website just keeps getting worse and worse...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My friend is half Irish and an Irish citizen, but shelives in the U.S. and has only ever visited Ireland for a few weeks or a mnth at a time. She's still Irish.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I just really hate the people that sit there for 5 min and say I'm 1% this 20% that 18% this..like stfu

by Anonymous 12 years ago

so if ive lived in nigera for most of my life am i considered to be nigerian?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've never really understood that. Why is somebody born in a country, having done nothing to choose that country and have no connections by necessity with the country's cultures, values, and ideals more a part of that country than the person who gives up their old life to move to a new country because of an actual link with those values and ideals?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My friend has a dad who is Scottish, and she lived there until she was three, before she moved (with he english mother) to England, where she still lives now. But she still classes herself as more Scottish than English, and if Scotland were to become independant, she would get a Scottish passport. Even though she is the 'more' English?! Makes no sense to me. Half of my family come from Canada, but both my parents a were raised in England, so I am English :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was born in England, where I have always lived except for that week I went to Ireland and that other week I went to France, I pretty much consider myself a Brittish citizen. Since we're sharing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've lived in South Africa all my life but my entire family, including parents are from Holland. My passport is Dutch and states my nationality as being Dutch. I kinda consider myself half/half.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Do you consider yourself Dutch? I'm of European descent as well, being mostly German and English. I consider myself South African.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which passport do you have? And my earliest born South African ancestor... Um well I don't have one... :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm half French, I've lived in America my whole life, I was born here. But I still consider myself half French. If you understand and know about your heritage then you can count yourself as that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago