Nationality is where you were born, not where your (grand)parents were born

Your nationality has nothing to do with your place of birth. It refers to the country where you are a citizen.

A lot of people use nationality, ethnicity, and national identity interchangeably in everyday conversation.

When you say that people "describes themselves as..." it seems more like those people you are referring to are talking about their ethnicity anyway. Thus making you seem stupid. I describe myself as Puerto Rican when talking to people I meet in real life. I've never been to Puerto Rico, but my great grandmother who was born their raised me.

Test

My great-grandparents were irish citizens. I'm an american citizen.

My ethnicity is irish and my nationality is american. I'm an irish-american. I don't care if me saying that pisses anyone off, because it's true.

My husband is african, but he holds multiple citizenships; he has many nationalities. He has only ONE ethnicity. Even within his country, there are many tribes and he belongs only to a single tribe.

Even living here in america, he is still a member of his tribe. That won't change just because of his citizenship. He refers to himself by his ethnicity, not by his nationality.

Somebody is a mixed American and is bitter about it. Someone is jealous of culture. Italian Americans are annoying af, I'll give you that. I am a mix of Scottish, Italian, German, Jewish, Native American, blah blah blah. I don't give a shit tbh, l'm just me!

Yes, exactly. There seems to be a mix up between nationality and familial origin. It's funny, because I wouldn't even be allowed into the country my parent was born.

As far as the laws are concerned, I'm an American citizen, and a foreigner anywhere else. Gotta get a visa.

This irritates me, too.

I was born in Australia, from several generations back Irish, English, Scottish. I am Australian, not any of those. My heritage traces back there, for sure. My I've never been to any of those places and their culture does not have any influence over my life.

Heritage can be of note, for sure, but you're not Irish unless you were born in Ireland.

Though to be fair, I think your personal situation could be argued either way. Or if someone was born in one country, then moved to another in the first few months, I'd probably consider them to be from the country they were raised in. It's somewhat of a grey area with babies/first generation.

You are definitely right.

It is based upon where You were born . Thank you

It's called identity and people have different identities which they reveal depending on where they are, with whom they are and the social gathering they're in. It doesn't mean that a black american calling himself african is rejecting his americanness (is that even a word? lol). No, he can identify to both. Like for instance an american in USA will not call himself american but will when he is outside of his country and when he meets people with the same ancestry they'll identify to that common identity.

Born, raised, and still living in Australia.

Eh I got a little bit of everything in me that's white. And i was born in America, use that as you will

If you think it's always that simple, perhaps you'll help my daughter figure out what she is, since she has US, UK, and Dutch passports.

I'm American by birth and grew up there, but I'm a naturalised UK citizen, I lived in Scotland for longer than any place else, and my world-view is British. My wife was born and grew up in The Netherlands, her father was Dutch, but her mother was born in Austria and still considers herself Austrian (and my wife really doesn't have a high opinion of the Dutch in general). Our daughter was born in The Netherlands, but our family home was at the time was in Italy, and she lived there until she was seven, going to school with Italian kids from the age of three, and speaking Italian during the day. A few years ago, we moved to Wales, and we intend that this will be our home from now on.

We've left it to our daughter to decide what label she wants to wear. So far, she's sure she's not Italian or Welsh, and lately she's started to call herself American. That seems bizarre to me, but I haven't asked her about it. I suspect it's just ten year-old logic.

She's spent a total of maybe three months of her life in The Netherlands, but by your definition, my daughter is Dutch because that's where she was born. Does that really make any more sense than her calling herself American?

I understand what you are saying, but I think people are trying to represent their ethnicity, and they mistakenly say nationality which is annoying. There are worse things though.

I hate when someone says to me that I have no Southern accent as if it's some kind of compliment, I don't take that sort of comment as a compliment. Someone recently made a comment about me being like an honorary Northerner, and I suppose it was a compliment, but I don't really feel anything other than annoyed. I might have felt different if I hadn't gone to college in Louisiana, because I have a genuine affection for Southern culture, and I'm not ashamed of being born in, or raised in the South.

And another thing, I hate when people talk about Hispanics as if it's a matter of being a different race, Hispanic is a ethnicity, and not a race. Technically a Hispanic person can be White, Black, Native American, or even Asian, and or any combination thereof.

My parents were born in china, moved to canada where I was born