The nationality of ancestors is not very relevant to most Europeans, mostly because we're the native people of the continent. People with multiple nationalitie

The nationality of ancestors is not very relevant to most Europeans, mostly because we're the native people of the continent. People with multiple nationalities or who grew up in a different country than their nationality very often describe themselves in terms of a single nationality, often the place they spent most of their childhood. "I'm Argentinian" "Oh, was it difficult to get a visa to come here?" "Well, I have an Italian passport because of my mother." Americans describing themselves as British-American or whatever seems strange to us, since we can recognize typical British people but aren't seeing any of it in the American.