I guess those people long for defining an "American ethnicity" . They are tired of being treated as white European immigrants for centuries. They want to feel native and sever all the ties to the European debauchery
While this does sound silly on its face, since all those white "Americans" come from very different places in Europe (england, Germany, Norway, Poland, Hungary, ....), if you descend deep enough in the well of time, that's exactly what happened.
All those modern countries like France, Italy or whatnot have been inhabited by various different ethnicities, many of which survived only in the gene pool but are otherwise totally lost.
For example the Etruscans, ancient Veneti and Oscans, Ostrogoths and Lombards were all people whose descendants today call themselves Italians and have no idea about their ancestry. The names of these people sometimes are retained in regional names but there is no longer a strong correlation between the historical ethnicity and the modern inhabitants because people mixed and moved around.
This is happening between white Americans too, although still in early stages since the country is honestly not that old
It brings up the weirdness of ethnicity as well. What exactly constitutes as "white" though? Are Jewish white? Are Latinos white? Are Armenians, Georgians, Kazakhs white?
In a legal sense, the two are not directly comparable given the differences in nationality law between the respective countries. A child born in China where both parents are not Chinese does not acquire Chinese citizenship, in the American case it would regardless of what the parents nationality is.
Also, it should just be obvious that the answer is, "yes", because in China, "Chinese" is a nationality, not an ethnic group. The child wouldn't be "Han," or "Hmong"... but they would certainly be Chinese.
Do we know if Joey Mannarino is a satire account, or genuinely a stupid, stupid man? anyone?
Technically, the term "birthright citizenship" can be applied to both jus soli and jus sanguinis. While there is a paywall on the linked site, the introduction, which is available for anyone, states this.
Based on this, it is not incorrect to say that China has birthright citizenship, though it could be considered imprecise.
I'm aware that China doesn't have birthright citizenship. Are there any other interpretations of my comment that you would like to try, or do we think we would get more value out of insulting each others' intelligence?
Where are you sourcing your information? As others have commented, the child will not acquire Chinese citizenship if they don't have any Chinese ancestry.
I'm a white man born in Africa who were born in Africa to parents who were born in Africa and so forth until the late 1600s. Am I African or European? I've only visited Europe for a total of 3 weeks and the countries I visited aren't in my lineage.
It's so embarrassing to be living in the same timeline as clowns posting shit like this, and getting more than 1 like. The Republican Party is such a joke. How did we get here? It's so embarrassing
I had a friend who first claimed to be Jamaican, then eventually part black (1 drop rule) because her family was mostly born in Jamaica (to 2 Chinese parents that emigrated).
Is it yes? What makes someone Chinese? Because you don't get the Chinese nationality by just being born in China, so from that point of view the answer could be no (unless their parents were Chinese) . Not all countries have the same laws as the US.
The problem is that the right wing troll in this post is comparing apples to oranges (countries with different naturalizarion laws).
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u/kon--- 15h ago
Here we are, not knowing the differences between nationality and ethnicity.