Hyphenated & dual citizenship is it a problem?
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Dual citizenship needs to be outlawed. How can you swear allegiance to more than one country? Native born citizens don't have to take an oath unless they join the service or hold a public office but all immigrants do. How can they come over here and take our oath and continue to hold citizenship with a foreign country? What about the part of the oath that says "that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen"
It makes no difference. People have the right to identify with their heritage -- it's been that way for centuries in the USA and other countries (and ex-colonies) that were targets of migration.
One scarcely notices the great grandchildren of Mexicans who were made US citizens by dint of the peace treaty following the Mexican-American War and the annexation of territory.
Dual nationality lasts for a generation or two, and then is usually lost. We are now faced, however, with chain migration and the denial of affiliation, integration and assimilation -- but mainly of Muslims, not Mexicans. This has its origins in the concept of Umma, and the unwillingness of many Muslim migrants to depart from the customs of their homelands. And to insist that their children marry people from their old village. That's a challenge for the future. We'll just have to see what percentage of grandchildren of Muslim immigrants deem themselves "American" and not "Pakistani, with an American passport and its access to riches". For example.
One of the most loyal Americans I ever met is a Muslim Lebanese, born in America of Lebanese parents, a former Marine Officer, FBI Agent, and executive of various oil companies. Most of my Lebanese friends -- in fact all of the others -- are Christians: suggesting that there is some difference between, say, a Lebanese Christian and a Lebanese Muslim (or a Palestinian Christian vs. Muslim) in the matter of integration, loyalty & patriotism, etc. It's something worth researching, but not PC and if it weren't for 9/11 I doubt anybody but me would be watching.
i agree with you,they are either american or not,that is why i don't like/use the term african american,since they were born here. dual citizenship,do you have something against jews?
edit. i'm a cherokee-irish-scottish-englis... that would be good on an application or a way to introduce myself(sarcasm)
just wondering. didn't want to comment before i was sure. usually when i see someone talking about dual citizenship it is about jews. i wouldn't/didn't call anyone anti-semitic. one should be loyal to one country not two.
no. if you are a dual citizen then you ACTUALLY are a both. So it is very accurate. But if you are of Mexican decent then it is ok to call yourself Mexican-American. Since you, most likely, have people ask you "what you are". I can call myslef Irish-American or English-American or but since I am Irish, English and Cherokee, it is too much, so i just say American, or white.
No. Citizenship has nothing to do with race.
If I wanted to be a citizen of Ireland as well as the United States, because, say, I want to vote here but live there, then I could apply for dual citizenship.
Likewise, if I am American and my Husband is Irish, then our child would have Irish-American citizenship, and I would be very unhappy if anyone told her she "couldn't be both" or had to "pick one".
It wouldn't matter if I was Chinese or my husband Hispanic, she would still have Irish-American citizenship. Her heritage would be Chinese-Hispanic-Irish-America... and I think that is the part you are taking offense to - heritage. Would you rather they sever all ties with Mexico and just become Americans? Or do you just want them out and back in Mexico? And why can't they be both?
People should be proud of their heritage, and even if they are not, they will inevitably be asked what race they are/country they are from, and they will answer accordingly with "Mexican-American" or "Chinese-American". One-hundred years ago, your grandparents probably replied "Irish-American" "German-American" or whichever they happened to be.
"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."
i do not see a problem with it. many who do have dual citizenship have if for a reason. for many, the reason is family, business, or political. but first and foremost, it is none of our business. We have no right to force them to choose one over the other.
I beleive you can show loyalty to one country only. I don't run around saying I'm an Irish-English- German-French-Sioux Indian-American. Doesn't take a brain child to see if a person is black or asian or whatever. I don't say I'm a white American to make me different than a white European. Do black French people say they're African-French? Scottish-Irish? I mean I think people pretty much know what your race and sometimes heritage is......
I agree that hyphenation is one stupid PC crap. What's more, it serves only to further any type of stereotype or discrimination (negative and positive) already in place and some new ones that would probably never have come up.
As for the dual citizenship, it would not be an issue if the US didn't get in at least one war per generation.
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