--- Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure Kevin can defend his case ably and > convincingly, but it's obvious to all that Dr JC > looks at the concept of nationality as a two- > dimensional affair: race and citizenship. His next > argument would be that there's no such thing called > an Indian race -- as if there's a Goan race! > > It does not occur to him that there's a dominant > third dimension to the issue - that of cultural > affinity, which encompasses vast areas of > tradition, kinship, emotional attachment etc. And > that plays a crucial role in determining one's true > nationality. > Mario adds: > Far be it for me to enter where angels fear to tread, a debate between intrepid Goanetters like Kevin, Jose and Radha, but it occurred to me that before getting into their learned treatises on "race" and "nationality" it may useful for the rest of us to look up what the words mean to maintain some perspective. Here is what Brittanica.com says. > Let the debate proceed!: > A. "nationality"
Affiliation with a particular nation or sovereign state. People, business corporations, ships, and aircraft all have nationalities. Nationality is inferior to citizenship, insofar as the latter implies a full set of political privileges and the former does not. Countries have limited rights to determine which of their inhabitants will be their nationals. People generally acquire a nationality by birth within a particular country's territory, by inheritance from one or both parents, or by naturalization. It may change or be augmented or taken away if a country cedes control of the territory where one lives to another country. B. "race" Term once commonly used in physical anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type (e.g., Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid). Race is today primarily a sociological designation, identifying a class sharing some outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of culture and history.
