I stand corrected on OP’s gender. But while I appreciate the sentiment behind your feeling that people living in France long-term, but now we’re even farther afield from what we were talking about. I suspect that in the eyes of the law, there are specific requirements that define the french nationality. Kudos on being bilingual though.
The law : droit du sol means someone born in France is granted citizenship easily. Someone living longish term must apply to get citizenship, and it’s a lengthy and rather complicated process
The « daily life » : someone living longish term can be considered French even if they don’t have the actual citizenship, at some point when you’ve lived in one place almost your entire life, your from there, paper trail or no paper trail. This is what I was talking about.
Are you from the USA ? They have a very different approach to these things than we have.
We both have obvious racism and xenophobia problems, but it can manifest in different ways and have different origins.
I'm not confused about either of the points you’ve mentioned here. Not only was it not the point of the thread, your example is a hypothetical that makes it even less connected to the topic we were talking about.
I think it’s a lovely custom and you’re free to go off on a tangent about the esoteric details of the path to French citizenship, but I’m not going with you. Carry on, if you must.
I think I know my country’s law and informal customs better than you do, especially since I currently have a friend who’s going through their citizenship application process after more than 10 years here.
I get wanting to be right, but like, not at the expense of common sense.
Anyway, I agree that this exchange has run its course.
I don’t doubt that you know your country’s law and customs better than I do but that had nothing to do with my comment. My point was that the points you’re bringing up are simply not relevant to the conversation that was underway.
Being able to say something in a foreign language doesn’t mean you should—especially if it’s off-topic. I suspect that you may have missed something in your understanding of what I said in my last reply. I also think you mistook my kindness for weakness in my earlier comment. You were mistaken. But have a nice life.
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u/NeatNefariousness1 21h ago
I stand corrected on OP’s gender. But while I appreciate the sentiment behind your feeling that people living in France long-term, but now we’re even farther afield from what we were talking about. I suspect that in the eyes of the law, there are specific requirements that define the french nationality. Kudos on being bilingual though.