What nationality are you?
Chat for students with international ancestry and overseas students.
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People are asking for your nationality: do you have a British passport? do you have an Irish passport?(Original post by AmyGrace)
erm...when ur dad is 3/4's irish and ur mum is fully english what does that make u
erm il just say 1/4 irish and 3/4 english then
well as far as i know anyway
English doesn't mean anything... you could be English and be a Canadian/Australian/American national and not have a British passport (although you might be entitled to it if you went far back enough). -
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Well if i may hazard a guess at your thinking...It doesnt matter which county of Ulster as they are all part of Ireland - regardless of which political entity (UK/Eire)they are a part of.(Original post by tammy_girl)
lol if i started to explain people would hate me, plus it would be too long lololol xoxo
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nope sweetie remember monaghan, donegal and cavan are in ulster and they are apart of the free state(Original post by an Siarach)
Well if i may hazard a guess at your thinking...It doesnt matter which county of Ulster as they are all part of Ireland - regardless of which political entity (UK/Eire)they are a part of.
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Did you not read what i said?(Original post by tammy_girl)
nope sweetie remember monaghan, donegal and cavan are in ulster and they are apart of the free state xoxo
It doesnt matter if they are part of the Free State or not. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are both parts of the island of Ireland. Scotland would not cease to be part of Britain if it left the UK. Political reality does not cancel out geographical reality.(Original post by an Siarach)
It doesnt matter which county of Ulster as they are all part of Ireland - regardless of which political entity (UK/Eire)they are a part of. -
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It's based on that principle that people from NI can get Irish passports, right? Although I doubt that principle can last much longer...(Original post by technik)
as hes a quarter...it refers to grand parents.
if said grandparents were born pre 1920 then they are irish regardless of what part they were born in -
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sorry misunderstood(Original post by an Siarach)
Did you not read what i said?
It doesnt matter if they are part of the Free State or not. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are both parts of the island of Ireland. Scotland would not cease to be part of Britain if it left the UK. Political reality does not cancel out geographical reality.
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Yup. But anyway im not referring to political allegiance or anything like that/happenstance, just simple geography.(Original post by technik)
as hes a quarter...it refers to grand parents.
if said grandparents were born pre 1920 then they are irish regardless of what part they were born in -
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But it's the political reality that defines the nationality.... that's why so many were confused when asked what nationality they were? They didn't realise it normally means "Which country are you a citizen of" and not what colour is your skin, where were you born, or where is your family from. Although these can have an influence on your nationality...(Original post by an Siarach)
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well it doesnt take much to take a gander at my location hun(Original post by SamTheMan)
People are asking for your nationality: do you have a British passport? do you have an Irish passport?
English doesn't mean anything... you could be English and be a Canadian/Australian/American national and not have a British passport (although you might be entitled to it if you went far back enough).
just doing what everyone else did
someone got out on the wrong side of the bed this morning
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its a grey area really.(Original post by SamTheMan)
It's based on that principle that people from NI can get Irish passports, right? Although I doubt that principle can last much longer...
it specifies you have to be an irish citizen. since northern ireland is nothing to do with the republic strictly speaking its a strange arrangement.
my south african friend has an irish passport yet hes never even set foot in the irish republic and his parents are a south african and british (northern irish). they seem very easy to get. theres a saying that you only have to have drank a pint of guinness to qualify... -
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you'd have to use irish and northern irish then really.(Original post by an Siarach)
Yup. But anyway im not referring to political allegiance or anything like that/happenstance, just simple geography.
i take it you cant actually call anyone "welsh" then as its been "incorporated" with england since 1284 and then "annexed" in the 1500's...
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I am British.
As many Nationalists will point out, England is a nation, the United Kingdom is not. What holds more right to the term 'nationality'? I really wish these terms could be clearer cut.(Original post by SamTheMan)
But they asked you your nationality. As laid by various acts of Parliament, there's no such thing as English nationality. You can be English and British, Canadian, Australian... just as there are people who are of Indian origin and who have these same nationalities...
I'm aware it probably wasn't what the OP was asking, but technically my nationality is Scottish and my ethnicity is Anglo-Normanic by way of Northern Ireland - at least on the paternal side.
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