• @[email protected]
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    344 months ago

    The number of people that don’t know this is… Distressing.

    This was literally middle-school shit for me.

    If you were either born in the US–which (usually) makes you a citizen by birthright–or are born to parents that are citizens, you are almost always eligible. (There are some weird edge cases about citizenship, but they’re extremely rare.)

    • @TrickDacy
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      144 months ago

      Yeah it was to most people I think.

      But since anti-intellectualism has gotten so popular, people have this idea that learning is stupid and makes you uncool. So they hate school and reject information.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        34 months ago

        That has always been the case for stupid people, but the internet has spread the idea to average people now too.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      What I learned in school was natural born means born in the USA.

      It wasn’t until Cheney that I learned that it also meant parents of citizens or born on a US Base.

      Just goes to show that school systems are janky when it comes to history.

      • @MutilationWave
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        44 months ago

        Wasn’t Mitt Romney born in Mexico? And nobody even cared when he was running.

      • @stoly
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        34 months ago

        A US base is US territory. Same as an embassy or consulate. If you’re born there, it’s the same as being born in Kansas.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        I think that being born to US citizens, on or off a US base, is usually sufficient to be a US citizen, but it depends on residency. It gets a little tricky at the margins, and it’s the sort of thing that you’d need to take up with the US State Dept.

        I know that for people that have dual-citizen parents, but have never lived in the US, it can get challenging.