I'm with you here, and don't understand the downvotes; I get that someone can disagree with you, but the argument seems reasonable to me, and made in good faith

I'm with you here, and don't understand the downvotes; I get that someone can disagree with you, but the argument seems reasonable to me, and made in good faith. Also, I'd like to point out that of lot of commenters are from the US: as a French citizen, I very much believe that, for obvious historical and cultural reasons, our conception of the citizenship (nationality) very much differ.