Do Other Countries Have Hyphenated People?

[Acsenray]

@Richard_Pearse

Yeah I actually have Australian citizenship* but would never identify myself as Australian, I am a New Zealander.

*The company I was working for were renewing their contract with a government agency. If they didn’t get the contract my best job prospects would be to work for the company that did get it. Although when I started working for the company Australian citizenship was not required, it had since become a requirement and I didn’t want any technicality to prevent me from remaining employed.

Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country.

[Richard_Pearse]

@Acsenray

Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country.

No, in fact I still travel on my NZ passport as I haven’t got around to getting an Australian one.

[Driver8]

@Acsenray

Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country.

I hope they get over it. It must be extremely common for naturalized Americans to hold onto their previous citizenship. I for one have both a South African and American passport.

[Martini_Enfield]

@Acsenray

Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country.

I also have dual Australian/NZ citizenship and didn’t have to renounce my NZ citizenship when I became Australian, which is just as well frankly.

It’s not really a big deal (both countries recognise the Queen as head of state, after all) and heaps of people I know in both countries hold dual citizenships, not only Aust/NZ but also Aust/UK or NZ/UK, Aust/Canada, NZ/Canada, etc. One guy I knew years ago had the trifecta of triple citizenship - UK, New Zealand and Australia.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Alessan

It’s not done in Israel. Colloquially, people are simply referred to by the name of the country they, or their ancestors, came from - Russian immigrants are called “Russians”, American immigrants are called “Americans”, and so on…

Interesting. What are American tourists called, then - those who are just visiting and have no intention of settling in Israel?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

“Annoyances”.

[Alessan]

Heh. Generally, they’re just called “American Tourists”

On a related note, Jewish immigrants from anglophone countries (the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa) are often lumped together under “Anglosaxim”,a name many of us find hilarious.