what is your nationality?

100% English

chinese....

American.

Ancestry is a mix of Irish, English, German, Italian and Scotch.

American : Native American (Dakota) w/German & Scottish.

I'm English, but have lived in Scotland for 25 years. I have Germanic roots from just a few generations back and Nordic and Scottish ones from further back.

100% Swedish but I have lived in England for 11½ years.

Palestinian
Born and raised in United Arab Emirates
Been living in New Zealand for 13 years!

I don't think you guys understand what nationality means. It's the country you were born or naturalized in. Your identifying nation also counts as your nationality too. So you technically can switch nationalities if you choose to revoke your citizenship in a country and become a citizen of another. Someone with a dual citizenship could have two nationalities also but both countries would have to allow a dual citizenship.

Your ethnic background and where your family is originally from is your ethnicity.

My nationality is American and my ethnicity is Haitian.

But it depends on the country where you born with. Majority of the countries are mostly unicultural like in European (except UK), African & Asian countries so people tend to automatically equate nationality with ethnicity but if someone is from a multiracial country like US, UK, Canada, Australia or NZ then of course people don't expect it a similar way.

Like in my case, I was born in Philippines & therefore my nationality is Filipino. However given the fact that over 95% of Filipinos are Asians (Malays to be exact) so if I only say that I'm Filipino then people automatically assume that I'm of that ethnicity even though I'm mostly Hispanic (Spaniard, Mexican & Filipino) & identify more with Latino culture than the Asian one. Most the time in some unicultural countries, the natives think of mixed race people as different from them despite being of the same nationality. Same goes with a Caucasian who is born in Philippines, China, Thailand, Korea or an Asian born in Germany or Italy.

Oh I was just going with the actual definition of the word, not really what people take it as. I tend to see people confusing the two words pretty often.

It's like for example, if I were to travel outside the US and someone were to ask my nationality, if I said I was Haitian they would think I'm born in Haiti when I'm not.

Kiwi!! :bigsmile:

Americans often seem to have a very specific national identity no? I notice this, people in America have a pride in the story of their heritage. In terms of recognised nationality, I have Puerto Rican and British (I took that test, I aced it!) hehehehe xxxx

Oh I was just going with the actual definition of the word, not really what people take it as. I tend to see people confusing the two words pretty often.

It's like for example, if I were to travel outside the US and someone were to ask my nationality, if I said I was Haitian they would think I'm born in Haiti when I'm not.

Yes you're absolutely correct & I don't disagree with you regarding that. At least in your case, its safer to say you're American or Haitian-American since US is a multiracial country unlike in my case being in an Asian country where it is unicultural. I would really like to just identify myself with the country that I was born with however in my experience, when I did this they automatically talked something about the typical foods like pancit that I really don't like, karaoke stuff & other things that I can't totally relate to then when I told them I don't eat this & I prefer that, they would say "but you said you're Filipino" which somehow makes me feel bad. Its not that I don't like the mainstream culture but its just that I've been brought up in a different way. So when they ask me, I just say that I was born in Philippines.

Australian...ethnicity Greek.

But it depends on the country where you born with. Majority of the countries are mostly unicultural like in European (except UK), African & Asian countries so people tend to automatically equate nationality with ethnicity but if someone is from a multiracial country like US, UK, Canada, Australia or NZ then of course people don't expect it a similar way.

As someone who has extensively travelled Europe and currently lives in the UK I think this was probably the biggest generalisation I have ever read!

So you think Germany, France etc are "unicultural"?????? When have you last been there to come to that ridiculous conclusion???? :huh:

Victoria was spot on with her simple statement that people mix up the meaning of nationality and ethnic background. The two are not the same and often confused as many of the posts show.

Hey come on don't be mad. What I only mean is compared to the US or Canada where it has a sizeable population of immigrants from different countries which also makes it multicultural. Of course other countries has culture that varies from one province or city to another within the same country or with some immigrants but still the number of immigrants isn't that big compared to those countries I mentioned to make it soo multicultural. In other countries, there is a unifying culture that greatly defines those nations. Culture has nothing to do with the race. Even here where I was born, there are varying cultures also however there is that specific one that unifies the nation.

just English