中国人很奇怪,在中国的时候天然地理解接受一个藏人/维族人同时也是中国人的事实,到了美国加拿大,忽然就不能理解有了加拿大国籍的中国人在这里既是加拿大人,也是中国人/华人的事实。
有的华人甚至把美国加拿大称作自己的“新祖国”。。。这就实在让人不好意思了,这其实是乱认亲戚。。。
我在二十几年前出国之前英文培训时就聆听过美国来的外教对我们的指教,讲解中文“
祖国”一词的英文对应词,homeland, home country, motherland,。。。意思都是指
一个人的祖裔国,期间有中国同学问道,如果我们移民到了美国成了美国人了呢,是不
是美国就是我们的祖国了?外教答道,不是,你们的祖国将永远是中国,因为中国仍然
是你们的祖裔国,ancestral country, 而美国将是你们的 country of residence or
citizenship,翻过来就是你们的国籍国或居住国。
刚才去查了一下维基,homeland 定义是:homeland (rel. country of origin and
native land) is the concept of the place (cultural geography) with which an
ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association —the
country in which a particular national identity began. As a common noun, it
simply connotes the country of one's origin.
也就是,祖国指一个人的祖裔来源国家,是一个血缘民族概念,而不是一个政治概念。
我们不管有了什么样的国籍,美国,加拿大。。。只有中国才是我们的来源国家,是我
们的祖裔国,祖国。就是我们自己不愿意,别人看我们也是来源于中国的中国人,
Chinese这个词就是指China的人,我们还是中国人,只不过多了一个政治身份 - 美国
国籍,所以我们同时具有双重属性,Chinese Americans,美籍华人,既是美国籍的美
国人,也是中国来的中国人。
或许有人会说,那美国人也是欧洲来的,怎么他们就可以说美国是他们的home country
呢?其实最好是看看白人怎么样反驳这个说法的。下面这个白人的话是我在多伦多宾
顿市针对印度人的反移民传单事件的报道下面的评论抄来的:
the issue is not who came to Canada first, but which people built the nation
, and it was whites. Everyone in the world is an immigrant, should all
countries therefore open their borders? The natives came from northern
Siberia, so they were immigrants too. The issue is who created the nation of
Canada, and it was the Whites.
The historical record is obvious: European Canadians created the nation of
Canada; as of 1971, 97% of the ethnic composition of Canada was European;
all the institutions, infrastructure, religions, everything, was created by
European Canadians; therefore, they have every right to decide whether they
want to be reduced to a minority in their own homeland.
这是加拿大白人说的,但是也代表了美国白人的想法,就是说白人认为,并不是美国加
拿大先来后到的移民都一样,而是谁建立了这个国家,而这是白人,所以这是发源自白
人的国家,所有的白人都可以认同为自己的发源国,homeland,即祖国,而非白人就不
能。
要叫美国加拿大为祖国,除非你是白人,你基本上是在乱认亲戚。
其实楼主最主要的问题是本身概念太混乱了,楼主想说的中国人是人种概念,而国籍是法律上的概念,目前来说法律上公民和国籍其实就是一个概念,出生和归化公民本身就是不同,至少目前的法律上是尽量让两者不要要差别,争取不要出现二等公民的状况。至于实际是否做好很完美可以探讨商榷,但是不要把人种,意识上的差别和法律上的概念,混起来说。法律怎么看你,跟别人怎么看你,甚至你自己怎么看自己完全不是一回事。
上面nationality 和 citizenship区别的科普文章不错,但其实也还是有问题。
no one can change his nationality或许没错,但是当今社会,nationality本身就很难界定。比如一个中国人和一个加拿大人在巴黎生了一个孩子,那么这个孩子的nationality是哪里?中国?加拿大?法国?他是否就可以有三个nationality了? 恐怕没那边简单了吧。
就算在加拿大出生的人,也一样有被Revoke Citizen的可能性.
Many Canadian citizens may have a second nationality and are unaware of it. This could be because of family connections (including birthplace of a parent or grandparent), marriage to a foreign national or extended residency in another country.
准确的说是对双国籍者的歧视。
Difference Between Nationality and Citizenship
from http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-nationality-and-citizenship/
Nationality and citizenship are two terms that are sometimes used interchangeably. Some people even use the two words ‘“ citizenship and nationality — as synonyms. But this is not true and they differ in many aspects.
First of all let’s see what nationality means. In simple words, nationality can be applied to the country where an individual was born. Then what does citizenship stands for? It is a legal status, which means that an individual has been registered with the government in some country.
An individual is a national of a particular country by birth. Nationality is got through inheritance from his parents or it be called a natural phenomenon. On the other hand an individual becomes a citizen of a country only when he is accepted into that country’s political framework through legal terms.
Elaborating the two words, an individual born in India, will be having Indian Nationality. But he may have an American citizenship once he has registered with that country.
Well, No one will be able to change his nationality but one can have different citizenship. An Indian can have an American or Canadian citizenship but he cannot change his nationality. Another example is that people of the European Union may have European Union Citizenship but that person’s nationality does not change.
Coming to citizenship, some nations also confer honorary citizenship to individuals. But no country can confer honorary nationality on any one as his birthplace cannot be changed.
Nationality can be described as a term that refers to belonging to a group having same culture, traditions history, language and other general similarities. On the other hand, citizenship may not refer to people of the same group. For example, an Indian and may be having a US citizenship but he will not be belonging to the same group as that of the American nationals.
Summary
1. Nationality can be applied to the country where an individual has been born. Citizenship is a legal status, which means that an individual has been registered with the government in some country.
2. Nationality is got through inheritance from his parents or it be called a natural phenomenon. On the other hand an individual becomes a citizen of a country only when he is accepted into that country’s political framework through legal terms.
3. No one will be able to change his nationality but one can have different citizenship.
Read more: Difference Between Nationality and Citizenship
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给你一个最近的美国FBI黄振春案例:
U.S. Attorney’s Office July 02, 2014
District of Maryland (410) 209-4800
GREENBELT, MD—Zhenchun Huang, a/k/a Ted Huang, age 51, a Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly residing in Clarksville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to false personation of a federal employee and obstruction of justice, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain technology products from U.S. companies for export to China..
人家分得很清楚,某某,51岁,中国人,归化美国公民。
护照上的Nationality,其实是某国公民意思。
FBI原件:http://www.fbi.gov/baltimore/press-releases/2014/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-in-scheme-to-fraudulently-obtain-technology-products-from-u.s.-companies
别拿加公民身份当国籍 要有自知之明