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To: one_less who wrote (547683)	2/3/2010 1:07:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575941

It has become fairly common for recent immigrants to have more than one passport, and more than one claim to citizenship. I'm not sure we recognize dual citizenship but ... For the most part I don't think we can have dual citizenships. However, what the Germans were confused about is if someone were born here but had say a French surname....they couldn't understand why that person couldn't have a French as well as an American passport. I said because he's not French but American even though his surname is French. You can understand the confusion when you think about the people in Germany.....90+% have German surnames. Here in the US we have every surname in the world....the only true American surnames are Native Americans and they are a small part of the total population. Just because your surname is French or Greek or Chinese or Nigerian doesn't make you any less American. As I said before, they understood intellectually what I was saying but because of their own cultural experience and background, they had a hard time really getting it. We've gotten into these areas before when talking about the US's history with slavery and racial discrimination. Some things don't compute well beyond our borders.