关于Nationality的意思和用法的提问

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Ethnic refers to racial characteristics which come from thousands and thousands of years of isolation. Most East Asian people look basically East Asian, because for thousands of years only people who look like that lived in that area.

Nationality is different – this refers to the political structure of countries, nations – The name that we call a place now.

Ukraine wasn’t always called Ukraine – the Greeks and Romans called it Scythia. And it has probably had hundreds of different names, over the thousands and thousands of years that people have lived there.

If people say that they have a different nationality, it means that they feel that they live in a country which should be separate from the bigger one which is currently encompassing it.

Soviet Russia swallowed up lots and lots of smaller countries. Some of them became independent after the end of communism – but some are still within the borders of the Russian federation.

Kurdish people think that they should have their own country – but they mostly live in the countries of Iraq and Turkey.

A: Nationality = where you were born, your cultural heritage, et cetera

Citizenship = countries in which you hold the legal status of "citizen".

A: "Nationality"
or
"Native country"

A: “How do you say nationality in English”

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2. Nationality: Canadian

A: I would place an a before preference.

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A: American

A: Since the Nationality Law changed, dual nationals since birth must declare their choice of nationality by the age of 22. The selection of nationality is either a declaration of one nationality or renunciation of the foreign nationality.