If a person is born in USA and their ancestry goes back 250 years;What is their nationality?

Question

If a person is born in USA and their ancestry goes back 250 years;What is their nationality?

Answer 1

If you're born in the USA, you are automatically a US citizen. You may also be a citizen of another country, if one or both of your parents are citizens of that country.

There are two systems generally used to determine nationality:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguin...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

The US operates under Jus Soli, other countries have different rules.

Answer 2

American.  You are confusing the words "nationality" and "ancestry".

My family came to the U.S. over 300 years ago.  I am American.  My heritage is Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English.

Answer 3

Their nationality is American.  Even if your ancestry only goes back 20 years in America, your nationality reflects the country in which you hold citizenship.  Now, if you are talking about ancestry or heritage, that is something different and would have to be researched person by person, generation by generation.

Answer 4

American just like someone who receives naturalization in a federal courthouse this week.

Nationality is not your ancestral heritage, the country from which your ancestors came.

I have ancestors that were in this country before the Mayflower. The Jamestown Virginia settlement is 13 years older. Still anyone who has immigrated here and receives naturalization, their nationality is just as American as mine is.

Nationality is the place of your citizenship.

To state that an American citizen's nationality is Irish, Italian, Polish, German etc. is talking stupid.

Wikipedia's definition of nationality in some instances  is one that became common usage after the great wave of immigration and it was the way people of colonial American background classifed the children and grandchildren of those imigrants.  Unfortunately, too many of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of those immigrants have picked up on that and they are making themselves 2nd class citizens by stating their nationality is Irish, Polish, German, Italian of whatever. There nationality is nothing but American.  I see nothing wrong with someone saying that are Irish American, Polish American, German American, Italian American. They are just showing pride in their hertiage, but their nationality is absolutely nothing but American. When the say their nationality is Irish, Polish, German, Italian etc, they are talking stupid.

Answer 5

Their nationality would depend on where they lived before they came to the United States.

If they were from Ireland, then they are Irish.

My ancestory is Scotch, Irish, Dutch, Welsh and Ojibwa Indian.

By MY nationality is American.

If you want to get more techinical I'm an Anglo-Saxon

Answer 6

Their nationality is American...the rest is their ethnic and national heritage...

Answer 7

American, and a citizen of the U.S. Everyone has an ancestry. we date back to Adam and Eve.

Answer 8

Nationality depends on the nationality of the father and of your place of birth. That's how some people wind up with dual-citizenships. The only way to lose these is to renounce one or both of them.

Answer 9

All of the descendants of your first ancestor to arrive in America have had American nationality, if that is where they were born. Your ancestry and that of your first ancestor to arrive in  America, goes back, way beyond the time they arrived in America, and includes all the places and countries your lineage has passed through, generation on generation.

Nationality is something acquired at birth or by obtaining citizenship of a nation/country.