Originally Posted by
Burney
An interesting double standard operates here, though. If a white person of English extraction grows up and spends their entire life in say China, Japan or India, we would almost never be happy to call them Chinese, Japanese or Indian, would we? And neither, I suspect would the locals.
So to an extent, one's nationality depends also on the extent to which the people of your host nation are prepared to accept you as being of their nationality.