cobragt4001
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In a older thread I made a comment on how Europeans born in America aren't Americans, they are what their parents lineage is so if your ancestors are Irish or English and you were born here in America, you're Irish or English who so happens to have US citizenship. The US is a corporate entity, not a country, which occupies a portion of North America. America denotes a continent, not country, so why do we ignorantly accept America as the particular landmass the US occupies?
Nation:
c.1300, from Old French nacion "birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe," literally "that which has been born," from natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually predominated, but earliest English examples inclined toward the racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to North American Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=n&p=2
Your nationality isn't based on where you're born but your pedigree, lineage and descent. If a English couple birth a child in Japan, is that child Japanese? No, the child is what his or her parents are but he or she can gain citizenship, basically a contract with the Government, with the Japanese Government, but doesn't mean he or she is all of a sudden Japanese because her or his lineage and descent is English, not Japanese.
American:
A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=American&use1828=on
Notice how it says originally, what's original is the basis of learning the true meaning of words. Connotation has no place in the origin of a word's meaning and sadly enough, our language and understanding is based on connotative understanding which suppresses the culture.
Jus sanguinis is what determines one's Nation state or nationality, not where they're born.
Nation:
c.1300, from Old French nacion "birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe," literally "that which has been born," from natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually predominated, but earliest English examples inclined toward the racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to North American Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=n&p=2
Your nationality isn't based on where you're born but your pedigree, lineage and descent. If a English couple birth a child in Japan, is that child Japanese? No, the child is what his or her parents are but he or she can gain citizenship, basically a contract with the Government, with the Japanese Government, but doesn't mean he or she is all of a sudden Japanese because her or his lineage and descent is English, not Japanese.
American:
A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=American&use1828=on
Notice how it says originally, what's original is the basis of learning the true meaning of words. Connotation has no place in the origin of a word's meaning and sadly enough, our language and understanding is based on connotative understanding which suppresses the culture.
Jus sanguinis is what determines one's Nation state or nationality, not where they're born.
