Is it better to fight for your birth country or the country you have lived in for the majority of your life?
956125
I'm really not sure, i would want to fight for my birth country yet i dont know anything about it. I dont know whether they're in the right or wrong and who i will be fighting alongside. If i fight for the country i have lived in most of my life, then i would have a patriotic feel.
500244
I had a fabulously annoying meaningless and stupid answer for that one, but here goes a truthful one:\n\nHeritage is more important to me because if my children were to be born elsewhere and eventually raised there, I would like them to have my values and customs regtardless of their nationality.
883440
well i'd say you need to come here first, then ask around. of course, you'll probably have to have lived here for some years before you can get the nationality. so: move! and if you already live here: ask somewhere better! go to the gaesteamt or finanzamt, or the town hall.
831606
It is not good. You should remain in your own country and serve there.If you are in some other country, doing job, you should remember that you should be seen as a second class citizen.\n You can move with head high if you are in your own country while this will not be the case if you are away from your nation.\n So always remember that your country needs you always and you should work here only.
725694
no your not rascist for wanting your family to have the same rights as the "others". in fact you should have more rights if you were born and bred in the country but unfortunatley here in britain that is not the case we actually have less rights whilst recieving less benefits if we become unemployed or sick as opposed to the imigrants (alot of which are illegal) who get much more of OUR money that we worked for which they take
958022
I'm not technically from Scotland buy my mum's a Scot and I spent my early childhood there. I love going back up to visit my family - I can feel my spirit lifting the further north I go, admiring the beautiful scenery from the train. I'd love to move back up eventually and I'm seriously considering applying to do a PhD at Edinburgh or St. Andrews.\n\nI don't agree with the person who said it's pointless to be proud of something that's an accident of birth. Nationality may not be the most important tie but it's a lot more than just being born in a particular place, if you identify very strongly with the values and attitudes of the place you were born and work to preserve them.
1076566
I would have to agree....I've read one or two articles about people getting beat up in this country just because they support a different country.
359110
Regardless of the political ramifications of joining the armed forces in a time of conflict, the experience can be very rewarding if you go in for the right reasons.\n\nYou'll need to evaluate the reasons of why you want to do this and balance it against other important relationships and plans for the future.\n\nIf you're running away from problems, it's not a good reason to go...they'll still be there when you return.\n\nOn the other hand, if you see this as a path to bettering yourself and taking yourself to the limit, I can think of no better choice.  It will truly make a man of you....get what you can out of the experience.\n\nMost importantly.....come home alive.  I'm sure there are people who would deeply regret your loss of life.\n\nIn peace....
471649
The point is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.\n\nI'd sooner die a martyr to a cause than just another soldier on the field.\n\nI would never die for a government, ethnicity, nor for pride.  I would readily die for an ideal if need be.  religious, political, or personal; if I believe it, I believe it enough to put my neck on the block.  Although I am more prone to a fight than a sacrifice, I would stand up if need be.\n\nThe important thing that makes a good American truly good is the willingness to risk your life on the right for anyone to stand up the same way for their ideals.  Of course, I'll only stand for the rights of my countrymen, not some oppresed foreign people who are too afraid to fight for their own freedom.\n\nI could keep rambling on, but I'll stop before I start talking about nuking Quebec.
457221
Depends on what citizenship you have
543911
I would say dont vote, but if you have to, choose your family.  Blood is thicker that water
215320
Your nationality is the country you are a citizen of.\nEthnicity is what your asking about. Go back as far as your great-grandparents for an easier definition of your ethnicity, but you can go back as far as you want - it just gets more complicated. I use my great-great-grandparents.
928101
You may feel homesick to your origin and you feel torn between this origin and your homeland "USA". However, would you like to live in the country of your origin? If so, what prevents you. At least you would enjoy both being American and living in the country of your origin. However, how can you put your hand on the plow and look behind?
786788
My USA citizen countrymen/women. The USA is a melting pot of many colors and nationalities. I hope all of us would defend each other against outside forces or entities. We should not allow other people to divide us by bringing up issues in the past that they use to stir up past ills. The past is and should remain there, in the past. Issues of today are issues of today. We all had our good and bad pasts, they are over with. Today we should look at each other as AMERICAN compatriots.
111779
In legal sense you have a right in the country in which you are a citizen. Also your birth country could give you some special rights and privileges.\n\nIn moral sense you are the one to decide your nationality. You can call yourself as belonging to either of the place you've mentioned. It all depends on your liking of a particular place.
887330
This is a much debated topic. Some believe you have to be born here. Others believe you have to be of a certain race or live here a certain number of years. I believe you just have live here and believe in the ideals of America. Freedom being the biggest one. America is a huge melting pot that accepts people from all races, religions, and walks of life. As long as your not out to harm the country you can be an American.\n\nLegally though you have to have been born in America or an overseas American embassy or marry an american  or lived here for 5 years and applied for citizenship.
1150508
If you are Asian and you are here illegally, go home.  Don't let your first act on our soil be a federal offence.  \nIf you are Russian and you are here illegally, go home.  Don't let your first act on our soil be a federal offence.  \nIf you are German and you are here illegally, go home.  Don't let your first act on our soil be a federal offence.  \nIf you are African and you are here illegally, go home.  Don't let your first act on our soil be a federal offence.  \nIf you are from Kenya, Hong Kong, or even the South Pole and you are here illegally, go home.  Don't let your first act on our soil be a federal offence.  Does that kind of clear it up for ya?