Have you ever thought to apply for a new citizenship?

Question

I mean, have you ever thought to change your citizenship?
Are you proud of your citizenship or not?
If yes, why?
If not, why?

Answer 1

Citizenship has come to be a property right like any other. Since the end of World War II when women began to have a "right" to nationality (in the USA it was the Cable Act of 1924 that gave them that right) and dual nationality became generally allowed, and inevitable if couples of different nationalities married and had children, citizenship has ceased to be a base for obligtations and instead become one of rights.

Tub-thumping chauvanists are passé. The European Union, with 25 different nationalities all having reciprocal economic (and some political) rights in each other's country, has changed this a lot.

To study American "citizenship" my fravorite place is Derby Line VT (although Vancouver is similar): the Canada/US border goes down the main street, and indeed across the reading room of the public library. Many of the residents of Rock Island/Stanstead QC are also US citizens because for many years many of their women went to a maternity clinic in Newport VT to give birth.

Today, where a President seems more intent on serving and enriching his cronies than representing the consensus of his citizens, citizenship has been more devalued than ever it was under the impeached Bill Clinton.

Answer 2

Yes, I have thought about it.

Not because I wasn't proud no ...

because, I wansn't sure if I wanted to "stick out the bad times".
Like if this country ever went mega Nazi facist kind of facist ... I thought I might want to leave and live somewhere else and become a citizen else where so I can be protected from my homeland.

However, after a few moments of thought, I decided I never want to do that.

I would rather keep my citizenship, and STAY here. Because no matter where I ran to to exscape its wrath, it will catch up to me eventually. So the best thing to do for my self and my country, would be to stay and FIGHT, even if it ment becoming an outlaw in the new law of the country's eyes.

For if I do not stay and fight, it might spread to my "Safe haven", there for there would be no where to run to, and I should of delt with it from the begining instead of running from it.

Also, who's to say the place I run to will not eventually share its same fait, thus I am faced with the problem and issue all over again. So I should of solved it for my self in the first place during the FIRST time.

so...

No, I will never change my citizenship, and I will never permatly relocate.

I am a true patiot to the end, even if I do not seem like a patriot at all.

But I am a patriot of Freedom, hope, and love! And this for better or for worst is my Home (the USA).

And if this country (the USA) is the home of the Free, I will fight to make it *truely* free. Becuase it is suppose to be "The Home and Land of The Free". (this also means freedom from oppression, and my interpretation is it should be freedom from ALL oppressions Haha!)

Also, to leave when I know I can fight to make things better would mean I would be a desserter not only to my home land, but a deserter to my people (well the people who decided to stay or were forced under cetant cercumstance to stay).
Which in this sense, no matter what country someone belongs to, this alone should give them a reason to stay. For by leaving they are making a brighter future for their home country grow dimmer by not aiding in the change for a better country for the future.

;-)

Answer 3

I used to be proud of my country and citizenship. But not any more. I see the future of my country as dark. This is because of increasing role of religious people and extremism. I wish to migrate but it seems very difficult now.

Answer 4

No, As a New Zealander I live in the best country in the world and most people like us. We rock.

Answer 5

I wouldn't use proud... ha! I'm just glad I can do anything I want (well, relatively speaking)...

Answer 6

never came across my mind. as an american i have more freedoms than many others.