Foreigner in my own native country (167)
davpk10: That is because they in fact "privilages" and not "rights"......
that would be correct. Thanx for clarification, Bud.
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mnowsa: Back to Bangladesh(my mother land) after living more than 12 years in the USA. It looks like i am lost in my own country. Has anybody ever had that kind of feeling?
Hey mnowsa, why did you leave the States? Where were you living btw? Are you tuned in back at home now? Man, you could have waited until after football season to go back to your native land
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jac379: Ok. I guess that would take several pages to expand upon.
I just sometimes wonder whether I'm missing the obvious. I remember applying for a grant when I first set up my business and being asked for certain information that seemed utterly irrelevant to me. I questioned it and got a shirty, but uninformative reply. It twigged then, that it was assumed that I could be lying about something and this piece of info would verify my entitlement. It hadn't occurred to me that people might lie.
I was just wondering whether this allegiance thing was like that, that maybe its assumed if you have citizenship, or rights, or allegiance to another country that you are up to no good in some way.
Jac xxx
I just sometimes wonder whether I'm missing the obvious. I remember applying for a grant when I first set up my business and being asked for certain information that seemed utterly irrelevant to me. I questioned it and got a shirty, but uninformative reply. It twigged then, that it was assumed that I could be lying about something and this piece of info would verify my entitlement. It hadn't occurred to me that people might lie.
I was just wondering whether this allegiance thing was like that, that maybe its assumed if you have citizenship, or rights, or allegiance to another country that you are up to no good in some way.
Jac xxx
The US does not allow dual citizenship and if one takes the US citizenship, the candidate must swear an oath of allegiance to the US and swear that he or she will fight (go to war) on the side of the US. So if one has reservations and it came down to the test case (native country vs US) and the person fought on the other side, then they can be prosecuted... and will be, depending on the consequences.
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Scubadiva: The US does not allow dual citizenship and if one takes the US citizenship, the candidate must swear an oath of allegiance to the US and swear that he or she will fight (go to war) on the side of the US. So if one has reservations and it came down to the test case (native country vs US) and the person fought on the other side, then they can be prosecuted... and will be, depending on the consequences.
Actually, the US has some kind of deal-agreement with Sweden. I'm a dual citizen. Never had to do any oaths or whatever. Just paperwork.
I know Greece and Croatia have the same agreement with the States---and the UK.
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Raynew1959: Hell yeah. When I moved to North Carolina, I thought I was south of the border due to the number of latinos. Happy to be back in New Hampshire where I don't have to put up with them
that wasn't nice 
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jeepers: You would have been better off going south of the border !~JMO
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yes..i feel the same...I'm not from here, and I can't live there...
25years in this country...and now I don't know mine anymore(DR)...was there 2 weeks...and I feel stranger...