What does "national" mean as opposed to "citizen"?

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Answer 1

What DOES national mean? Hmmm, in fact, what does anything mean? And do words have an "intrisic" meaning or is it only the temporal assignment that a corpus of its speaking infuse that has relevance.

And what does corpus mean? Did I even use it correctly? Would you try to make me ashamed if I didn't? And why would I be ashamed? Maybe in a hundred the meaning of that word would've actually morphed into what I meant when I used it. But then, with that logic, I could go around using words wrong all the time, claiming that as a citizen of my language, I am free from the trappings and confinements of a rigid lexicon.

I'm sorry, what was your question again?

Answer 2

National differentiates you from other countries.  You are a citizen of a country.

Answer 3

dgf

Answer 4

"National" refers to the country one was born in.  "Citizen" refers to one's legal allegiance.  I have a cousin who is a French national, but a US citizen.  

Answer 5

American Samoa is an "unincorporated territory" of the U.S. Only certain parts of the U.S. Constitution apply.

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

For incorporated & unincorporated territories, see-

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

Citizens (beloning to incorporated territories) have FULL Constitutional rights, Nationals do not.

Answer 6

I'm glad you didn't include "subject"