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  2. In contrast, they offer that "citizenship" is the actual legal status granted by a nation-state. Someone who lives in Japan, a very homogeneous nation, may say that their nationality, ethnicity, and citizenship is Japanese. In contrast, you may have someone of Kurdish ethnicity and Iraqi nationality who moves to America and obtains U.S ...

  3. What is the word for your nationality if you are from Singapore?

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/182332/what-is-the-word-for-your-nationality...

    @dan For the N-400, Application for Naturalization form, the instructions for Block 11, "Country of Citizenship or Nationality" say to use the name of the country. I would think that on any form, you should put the nation's name rather than its demonym in blocks asking for "nationality" –

  4. 4. The names for Germans and Germanic peoples is a bit of a mess. The word Dutch is from Low German and in the Middle ages referred to all of those people in what is now Northern Germany, Flanders, and the Netherlands. With changing national identities the word "Dutch" came to be used for the language spoken in the Netherlands, and by extension ...

  5. word usage - Ambiguity with term "Nationality" - English Language...

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/195935/ambiguity-with-term-nationality

    1. Nationality is a complex issue. It is more to do with what you feel is your country than any strict definition. The table is wrong to assert nationality represents "place of birth". You may not feel a connection to a country that you happened to be born in. For example a person born in Khazakstan to Ukrainian parents may feel a closer ...

  6. Nationality is always a format based on the term used to refer to people hailing from the nation and not really the nation itself. Jamaica - Jamaican; Britain - British ; Yugoslavia - Yugoslavian ; The point of nationality is to indicate the country but in a form that focuses on the people and not the concept of the country/nation.

  7. articles - Rule for using "the" with nationality - English...

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/134225/rule-for-using-the-with-nationality

    In general, nationality words can be divided into several types. Adjective and noun are the same form. For this type, the only way to talk about groups is by using the - (e)s plural, with or without a definite article "the". Examples: (the) Indians, (the) Americans, (the) Israelis, (the) Arabs, (the) Greeks.

  8. (Spaniard is the correct word if used as a citizenship or nationality and similarly it is used as an adjective so "a" should be used) He's done with an spelling mistake. Illustrating the above two examples The first one i.e 1 "He is an Spanish boy" is wrong because Spanish is an adjective for people, language or culture and it may be referred ...

  9. 1. A more common formal term for where you live now would be residency. Your residency would be "Germany". Citizenship is a common term on forms, but it means "what country do you hold citizenship in", not literally "where you were born" - usually, you are a citizen of the country you were born in, but there are many people who were born in one ...

  10. The correct usage of the words; Filipino and Filipina

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/323563/the-correct-usage-of-the-words-filipino...

    The fully anglicized adjective is Philippine. Therefore, someone using the terms Filipino and Filipina is choosing to use Spanish words, and some of the Spanish grammar rules still apply.

  11. “Ascent" or "descent" in the context of ancestry?

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/226045/ascent-or-descent-in-the-context-of...

    Ascent: 3 : a going back in time or upward in order of genealogical succession Descent: 1 : a : derivation from an ancestor Which should I use to refer to someone who has a, let's say C...