> Yeah, the way Americans mean "I'm X nationality" and the way the rest of the world means it are different. I don’t think this is uniquely American - I know p

> Yeah, the way Americans mean "I'm X nationality" and the way the rest of the world means it are different. I don’t think this is uniquely American - I know people in Australia who identify as Italian despite the fact their parents were born here. And I wonder if you’d find something similar in other places where large numbers of Italians emigrated, such as Argentina. And the same applies to various other groups too, mutatis mutandis. A word like “Italian” can variously describe legal nationality/citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, language, self-identification - and different combinations of those possibilities in different contexts or as used by different speakers