Nationality.

@Suzianne said
This is backwards.

Citizenship denotes certain rights individuals have in a country. If you fit the parameters for citizenship, then you're a citizen, dual or not.

The US recognizes dual citizenship for those with at least one American parent who are born in another country. And usually vice-versa. I went to school with a kid who was born here by Canadian parents. ...[text shortened]... g able to vote in elections.

In the modern world nationality and citizenship are often conflated.

You're thinking of nationality. Agree citizenship means voting rights but do you think someone born and who has lived in America all their lives can vote in another countrys elections? They cannot, regardless of having a passport or not... You need to have residency to vote in most countries... But very country can set their own rules. Believe a Peruvian person can only have one passport.

@eye-of-horus-42 said
That's exactly why I despise dual nationality.

Well then, you'd better not be voting for Donald Trump. He's married to a dual national. You can't trust a man with nuke codes if he's married to someone you can't trust. She might 'turn' him.

@eye-of-horus-42 removed their quoted post

Fair enough. I do wonder why no one in America has paid any attention to the fact that the 45th president is married to a citizen of a former Soviet Block country and that said 45th president can say nothing bad about Putin or Russia, even when he invades a sovereign neighbor country on a pretext or murders dissidents.

@eye-of-horus-42 said
As it happens my background is Romanian I escaped from Romania at the age of 17 in the year 1959 and I came to Australia and never visited Romania.The Soviet style of communism destroyed my family.When Putin got in power I predicted that is going to be a problem,because he was KGB agent in BERLIN GERMANY and communist to the bones in democratic clothes,If he succeeds to take over Ukraine what next?

I have the same concerns about all the other former Soviet Block countries. My wife's father got out of East Germany by cloak and dagger. I know what it does to families and how it can divide loyalties.

I do not see any potential conflict of interest or divided loyalties for a person, including a politician, who has dual citizenship involving the USA and Canada, or the USA and Australia. I do see a potential issue for someone who has dual American and former-Soviet-Block citizenship. That's why it seems so strange to me that no one in the GOP is the least bit concerned about the 45th president's wife having dual citizenship involving one of those countries. If it were Jill Biden, the GOP would be screaming "there's a mole in the WH! Don't give Joe the nuke codes!!" Crikey, look at what a brouhaha they made over Hutner's laptop.

@eye-of-horus-42 removed their quoted post

Judaism isn't a nationality.

@eye-of-horus-42 removed their quoted post

A politician or civil servant’s loyalty should be to the country he represents in public.

They have to be openly scrutinized and accountable. If they’re secretly serving another master their behaviour isn’t coherent with integrity.