What dictates your nationality?

[Diddums]

Here's one for you GD, I was born in South Africa, moved to Holland when I was 15. My family is all Dutch and live in Holland, I'm on a Dutch passport.

Am I Dutch or South African? I know the piece of paper says Dutch, but I was born and raised in South Africa, speak with a saffer accent, etc, so IU consider myself saffer.

Using that as an example, what dictates your nationality?

 

[darkgen]

Keep it simple; your birthplace.

 

[dcsarge]

Send him back?

 

[D.P.]

Whatever your passport says.

In truth,it is an entirely pointless concept beyond legal paperwork.

 

[trickycurve]

If you don't have dual citizenship (which is weird to me if you moved at 15), you're legally Dutch. If you do, you're probably both.

 

[The_Abyss]

You're a South African with a Dutch passport and deemed domiciled and resident in the UK.

 

[Cosimo]

Forget what the passport says, you're a man of the world....

 

[The Artfull Bodger]

What's in your heart, I'm only half English by blood, the other is EU (eligible for dual nationality) I grew up in the UK and consider myself British and european and proud of it, my relatives will always see me as english though so I suppose if you want a definite answer I would go with where you were brought up!

 

[arctine]

What's in your heart, I'm only half English by blood, the other is EU !

Didn't realise the EU is a nation?

 

[Haggisman]

Keep it simple; your birthplace.

This.

Otherwise we're all African.

 

[SquirrelMadness]

Your passport (could be dual national).

Nationality alone is usually only relevant in travel - where you are asked about the nation which you are legally a resident of.

It's not the same as ethnicity (which used to be interchanged with nationality before travel became easy) - which is genetics related.

Your nationality and birth place can be different.

Your culture (behavior) is a fusion of birth place, nationality and ethnicity but can also be artificially modified if you're really clever.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

OP is Jason Bourne

 

[CREATIVE!11]

Here's one for you GD, I was born in South Africa, moved to Holland when I was 15. My family is all Dutch and live in Holland, I'm on a Dutch passport.

Am I Dutch or South African? I know the piece of paper says Dutch, but I was born and raised in South Africa, speak with a saffer accent, etc, so IU consider myself saffer.

Using that as an example, what dictates your nationality?

Same except South African/Irish.

Send us back.

 

[G-MAN2004]

Otherwise we're all African.

Maybe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/

 

[Dis86]

Here's one for you GD, I was born in South Africa, moved to Holland when I was 15. My family is all Dutch and live in Holland, I'm on a Dutch passport.

Am I Dutch or South African? I know the piece of paper says Dutch, but I was born and raised in South Africa, speak with a saffer accent, etc, so IU consider myself saffer.

Using that as an example, what dictates your nationality?

You're British. Welcome ab(r)oad!

 

[jsmoke]

Always imagined you as being a true Englishman Diddums. Think about Adam and Eve.

 

[Woden]

Didn't realise the EU is a nation?

Give it time

 

[Spook187]

your a Spear chucker end of.

 

[Haggisman]

Maybe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/

Well, regardless, we'd all be <insert currently accepted origin of homo-sapiens> (doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well )

 

[Ree]

Keep it simple; your birthplace.

this