At 09:27 AM 5/9/2002 -0500, you wrote: >"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 May 2002, J. van Baardwijk wrote: > > > > > At 09:10 08-05-2002 -0500, Marvin Long wrote: > > > > > > >We didn't choose the countries we were born in, so why should we be all > > > >nationalistic about it? I'm an American because my parents f*cked > > > >here...lucky me. > > > > > > Allow me to nitpick here. > > > > > > You are an American not because your parents f*cked in America but > because > > > you were born in America. > > > > > > Tom is Dutch because he was born in The Netherlands (and German > because his > > > mother is German); if the nationality of a person would be based on the > > > location where the parents engaged in the act of procreation, Tom > would be > > > Turkish... :-) > > > > Good nitpick. I'll rephrase: "I'm American because, barring travel and > > other anomolies, my parents have done the preponderance of their f*cking > > here." > >What if your parents are American, *most* of their sexual relations were >in America, but the act of procreation and birth were in another >country, but then you were brought to America and raised there and >jumped through the little hoops the government provided for you to be a >full citizen in America? > > Julia
You are an American because your parents are. john
