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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Citizenship by birth (you become a citizen by being born in a country) is not really a thing outside Americas.[/quote]

It is in most countries. What are you talking about?[/quote]

It's actually not.

In fact, I think there is really only one European country that has it.  Most of the countries with birthright citizenships are more developing countries.

There's really not reason for the US or Canada to have it anymore[/quote]

I dont know about Canada or the "reason' you are referring to but the US has birthright citizenship b/c of the aftermath of abolishing slavery and granting citizenship to the formerly enslaved- the way that congress went about it in the 14th amendment enshrines it in our constitution and its not really policy choice and you'd have to have a constitutional convention to change it. maybe we could do that and also get rid of the 2nd amendment? j/k if we have one the union is toast.  lack of basic civics - mostly die to racism and discomfort with slavery is also mind boggling. [/quote]

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