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Accidentally got born somewhere is a very US centric perspective. Most countries do not follow Jus Soli births so this is not enough for citizenship. Citizensh
by blululu 5y ago
Accidentally got born somewhere is a very US centric perspective. Most countries do not follow Jus Soli births so this is not enough for citizenship. Citizenship is a matter belonging to a nation, past, present and future.
Traditionally families have been the principle unit of human organization and citizenship acts as a generalization of the family unit to the nation as a whole. The answer to your question is pretty simple if you replace citizenship with family relations.
This is perhaps changing as neoliberal ideology emphasizes individuals over families or collectives, but this is a separate matter.
- sophacles 5y agoYou have sort of explained "what is citizenship", complained about some random ideology, and completely failed to answer either of my questions. My country is NOT my family. My "nation" (whatever that is... a replacement for a tribe or something?) is NOT my family, nor even my extended clan. Why do I need to have "family" at a scale of millions of people, almost all of whom I will never encounter? A reminder of the still unanswered questions: Why does citizenship matter? What does any of that have to do with the difficulty of changing citizenship?