Comment by mvieira38
10 months ago
Americans will say they are Italian because their great grandma ate spaghetti once, but God forbid someone is American because he was born there
10 months ago
Americans will say they are Italian because their great grandma ate spaghetti once, but God forbid someone is American because he was born there
GP is right, he is not "completely" American in the sense that he is both American and Peruvian because of his dual citizenship. He also spent most of his life outside of the USA.
Which I think is a great thing as the representative of a worldwide religion. Born in the US, an English-speaking country in North America, lived in Peru, a Spanish-speaking country in the South America, then in Italy, an Italian-speaking country in Europe.
> he is not "completely" American
As for being completely American: dual citizen of U.S. and another country here. On each April 15, the U.S. still considers me completely American even though I haven’t earned a cent there in over a decade. So in an official sense, that moniker sticks to you like Super Glue.
Granted, the new pope may have a wider scope of cultural influences than many, if not a majority of Americans, it sounds like his formative years were spent in the U.S. so I’d call him American.
There’s a really interesting question here. Will the USA claim the right to tax the new pontiff? Likely answer is no, but legally the statute suggests yes. But who knows? There’s never before been a US citizen who is also a foreign sovereign.
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he is completely US American because he was born and raised there and studied there, maths and philosophy amongst other things.
and in addition he is also Peruvian.
so he's more than American. hyper American if you will. and now he's the head of state of the Vatican, too.
a triple whopper of sorts ;-)
Definitely a "yes, and" thing. I'm working on dual citizenship and I would not consider myself "less American" once I got it.
You can't study maths in America. There is only one math in America.
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I mean, this is supposedly the logic of the electing cardinals, not randos. They intentionally were avoiding an American pope until now, and this was (again, supposedly) a mitigating factor!
Personally I don’t believe in nationalism, so he’s just a dude from Chicago if anything.
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Well, Trump is trying to prove otherwise. I guess this would be one of the few backfires if such an act did make it through.
When the war comes, dual citizenship might become complicated. Certainly a pope cannot be a citizen, but for others.