I thought your examples were gonna be about idiots who have never even been to a certain country identifying as being that nationality. I think these people are correct though, if you were born in eg. India, then you're Indian. It's the only good strict method for defining nationality.
Sure we could say whichever country you feel is your homeland is your nationality, but then you get these idiots who claim to be a certain nationality when they've only lived in that country for a few weeks (even a few years isn't really enough), or without even ever visiting that country at all.
Or we could say whichever country you grew up in is your nationality, but people often move around a lot when they're young, so it'd be difficult to figure out which country is their true nationality then. If the decision was put to them, then they'd just choose whichever country seems the coolest.
So yeah, I think where you're born should be the only deciding factor in nationality. If you were born in India on holiday but then grew up in America, then for convenience's sake when meeting a new person, you could just claim to be American, just so you don't have to bother explaining the whole story. But otherwise I'd say that person is Indian tbh.
What is up with people all of a sudden identifying as another nationality?
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I thought your examples were gonna be about idiots who have never even been to a certain country identifying as being that nationality. I think these people are correct though, if you were born in eg. India, then you're Indian. It's the only good strict method for defining nationality.
Sure we could say whichever country you feel is your homeland is your nationality, but then you get these idiots who claim to be a certain nationality when they've only lived in that country for a few weeks (even a few years isn't really enough), or without even ever visiting that country at all.
Or we could say whichever country you grew up in is your nationality, but people often move around a lot when they're young, so it'd be difficult to figure out which country is their true nationality then. If the decision was put to them, then they'd just choose whichever country seems the coolest.
So yeah, I think where you're born should be the only deciding factor in nationality. If you were born in India on holiday but then grew up in America, then for convenience's sake when meeting a new person, you could just claim to be American, just so you don't have to bother explaining the whole story. But otherwise I'd say that person is Indian tbh.