US residents are not Americans. They can identify all they want but it doesn’t make it true.
I might relate to Americans on many things but unless I move there and become a citizen I’ll never be American.
I don’t disagree with your second sentence though. Considering that some US citizens inherited their citizenship from their parents but never lived there for prolonged periods of time. For them, being a US citizen is just a technicality.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not everyone who identifies as American has citizenship, and not everyone with citizenship identifies as American. It’s not synonymous.
havokdj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did you even read the OP?
nixcamic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes.
havokdj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“How do you call someone born in the US besides American”?
Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
US residents are not Americans. They can identify all they want but it doesn’t make it true.
I might relate to Americans on many things but unless I move there and become a citizen I’ll never be American.
I don’t disagree with your second sentence though. Considering that some US citizens inherited their citizenship from their parents but never lived there for prolonged periods of time. For them, being a US citizen is just a technicality.