Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"This is wild to me. This was one event and if it hadn’t been on the news, 99.9999% of Americans wouldn’t have even known about it. Meaning there is absolutely no effect on your daily life. There are many problems in the US but 1/6 really isn’t something to dwell on"

This is the absolute dumbest post on this site today.

Wth? whoever you are brain dead comes to mind.

HOW DARE YOU?

We have an active coup how the hell do you not understand that?

The Republican party yes the whole party voted against your voting rights. They are literally trying to hand us to Russia on a platter. The US will die a horrific death and you are insane to not be paying attention. Shame on you.

You sound hysterical. I’m more concerned with inflation and staying out of another foreign war than what was largely a media event.

[Anonymous]

Is there something like this for African Americans? I definitely feel stuck here but I have an Irish or Scottish last name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the residents of these EU countries resent it if so many Americans started using their low cost universities and healthcare without having paid into the system first?
Just a thought.

Go ahead and flame me, but with their low birthrates, they should want immigrants who are of their ethnic origin there to help preserve their cultures rather than immigrants who are of vastly different cultures who won’t carry on the traditions they have been building for over 1,000 years.

Shouldn't that be the case here as well?

Think you are making a lot of assumptions. Second or third generation American descendants are from a very different culture (ie American). I imagine most of them only know the bare bones about the culture and history of the countries they descend from. I found it odd when I first moved to the US when I met people who said they were Italian, Irish or Polish and then discovered it just meant a grandparent came from that country and aside from celebrating St Patrick’s Day, liking pasta or maybe studying there for a semester, they had a really superficial connection. Most of these countries actually need to evolve rather than be stuck in the past. Most of the posts here are about people feeling uncomfortable, either politically or financially, with their lives in the US rather than wanting to contribute to and be part of another culture or community.

[Anonymous]

I feel it's unpatriotic and even racist. Just another form of white privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the residents of these EU countries resent it if so many Americans started using their low cost universities and healthcare without having paid into the system first?
Just a thought.

It's already happening in POrtugal.

Which is why I don't think this will last long.

And I don't believe 40% of AMericans are eligible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the residents of these EU countries resent it if so many Americans started using their low cost universities and healthcare without having paid into the system first?
Just a thought.

It's already happening in POrtugal.

Which is why I don't think this will last long.

And I don't believe 40% of AMericans are eligible.

I believe it. I know at least 4 family members who were born in other countries while parents were in the US military. Not counting the people whose grandparents and great grandparents immigrated post 1900.

Me? Nope. Everyone was here by 1800, I've checked into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there something like this for African Americans? I definitely feel stuck here but I have an Irish or Scottish last name.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-americans-leave-racism-in-us-to-reclaim-destiny-in-ghana/

Accra, Ghana — In 2019, Ghana's president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the "Year of Return," commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record tourism to Ghana, and an increase in Americans who applied for visas to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the residents of these EU countries resent it if so many Americans started using their low cost universities and healthcare without having paid into the system first?
Just a thought.

It's already happening in POrtugal.

Which is why I don't think this will last long.

And I don't believe 40% of AMericans are eligible.

I believe it. I know at least 4 family members who were born in other countries while parents were in the US military. Not counting the people whose grandparents and great grandparents immigrated post 1900.

Me? Nope. Everyone was here by 1800, I've checked into it.

Sorry to put it this way but you have no idea. Very few European countries have birthright citizenship and those that do tend to have strict conditions, eg in Germany one parent has to be a permanent resident snd have lived there 8 years prior to the birth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel it's unpatriotic and even racist. Just another form of white privilege.

So, no American should ever move to Europe, or Asia? Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These countries had communism in my parent's generation and you think life is so great there. You wouldn't last a year.

Ireland and Italy had communism in the 40s/50s?

well, Italy had Mussolini, but yea, Ireland, UK, France, Portugal ..? Weird.

Actually a lot of Americans are going to Portugal, Spain.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/americans-moving-to-europe-housing-prices-and-strong-dollar-fuel-relocations

Mussolini wasn't a communist. ?

yea, no, I was referring to a dictator. Amounts to the same thing, if you think about it. 99% of communist countries are lead pretty much by dictators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the residents of these EU countries resent it if so many Americans started using their low cost universities and healthcare without having paid into the system first?
Just a thought.

Go ahead and flame me, but with their low birthrates, they should want immigrants who are of their ethnic origin there to help preserve their cultures rather than immigrants who are of vastly different cultures who won’t carry on the traditions they have been building for over 1,000 years.

Shouldn't that be the case here as well?

we have immigrants here who procreate at a higher rate than real Americans. Other countries don't.

This is part of the "great replacement" theory that some Rs fear.





https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Among-Immigrants-and-NativeBorn-Americans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"This is wild to me. This was one event and if it hadn’t been on the news, 99.9999% of Americans wouldn’t have even known about it. Meaning there is absolutely no effect on your daily life. There are many problems in the US but 1/6 really isn’t something to dwell on"

This is the absolute dumbest post on this site today.

Wth? whoever you are brain dead comes to mind.

HOW DARE YOU?

We have an active coup how the hell do you not understand that?

The Republican party yes the whole party voted against your voting rights. They are literally trying to hand us to Russia on a platter. The US will die a horrific death and you are insane to not be paying attention. Shame on you.

You sound hysterical. I’m more concerned with inflation and staying out of another foreign war than what was largely a media event.

for a media event there sure are a whole lot of people going to jail.

Also, your attitude is how Germany got Hitler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel it's unpatriotic and even racist. Just another form of white privilege.

You think all immigrants are racists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there something like this for African Americans? I definitely feel stuck here but I have an Irish or Scottish last name.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-americans-leave-racism-in-us-to-reclaim-destiny-in-ghana/

Accra, Ghana — In 2019, Ghana's president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the "Year of Return," commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record tourism to Ghana, and an increase in Americans who applied for visas to stay.

I think the Caribbean had something similar, but maybe I'm mis-remembering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"This is wild to me. This was one event and if it hadn’t been on the news, 99.9999% of Americans wouldn’t have even known about it. Meaning there is absolutely no effect on your daily life. There are many problems in the US but 1/6 really isn’t something to dwell on"

This is the absolute dumbest post on this site today.

Wth? whoever you are brain dead comes to mind.

HOW DARE YOU?

We have an active coup how the hell do you not understand that?

The Republican party yes the whole party voted against your voting rights. They are literally trying to hand us to Russia on a platter. The US will die a horrific death and you are insane to not be paying attention. Shame on you.

You sound hysterical. I’m more concerned with inflation and staying out of another foreign war than what was largely a media event.

That you Vlad?