What do you consider your nationality to be?

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Do you think it’s where you’re born? Or your parentage? Or your grandparentage?

For example, if you were born in Scotland, but your mum was Russian and your dad Venezuelan, what would you class yourself as?

Someone I know says they’re Irish because they have an Irish grandparent, but how far do you got back? AIBU to think only a couple of generations defines your nationality? Or do you think it can be longer?

And how much does it mean to you? I’m generally curious, I live in a place where locals are very fierce about their roots and I am a bit of a mongrol from my heritage and it’s never really bothered me, I just say ‘British’ because I was born and live here.

My nationality is British and my ethnicity is English.
I've done my DNA and family tree and on both sides of the family we are from England as far back as I can trace. Furthest I got back was 1600s.

I consider myself Irish altho I was born in England. I recently did a DNA test snd it came back 97 per cent Irish.

I think of myself as English but obvs when filling in forms I write British.

The country I was born in, the one on the cover of my passport. My parents and grandparents were born there too, would have to go back to great grandparents for different countries. DD considers herself my nationality, English (she was born in England) and Welsh - she’s dual national, my country-British.

In forms, I tick either “mixed - other” or if there’s a space to put in your own I tick “other” and write Latin American.

British but both parents are Polish.
Ethnically , I'm Polish, I suppose.

British but I have one parent who is not.

I have dual British and German nationality so I consider myself 50/50
I have one parent from each country, I do consider myself more German in terms of culture because I have a closer bond to my dm

I am English first, British second and European a distant third.

@MurielSpriggs

Can I ask, why do you consider yourself Irish if you weren’t born there, didn’t grow up there, and neither parent is Irish?

I’ve always been amazed how many people think you have to be English just because you were born in England. (Yes that includes you in laws)

I consider myself British European as my family are from all over

I’m English.

British because I was born here but Central/Southern European and Middle Eastern and Welsh because that is where parents and grandparents are from.

Scottish. I was born there, but both my parents are Welsh. I wouldn’t consider myself Welsh unless I was born there.

British.

My Dad was Irish and my Mum is British.

I have no requirement to say I'm half of each. I am entitled to an Irish passport but for personal reasons would never apply for one.

Funny about America too. There are so many Americans that claim they are of some European heritage. They make a big deal out of it, even generations after any ancestor having emigrated

Yes, this is an important aspect of our culture. We are all hyphenated or double-barrelled Americans, European and many others, including, of course, Native Americans. I'm Scottish-American, Anglo-American, and Irish-American, but mostly Scottish, and I have a Scottish surname.

100% Kiwi, despite not living in NZ. I have British heritage but never considered myself to be British.

I used to consider myself British.

But Brexit/ the current political climate means I now always describe myself as Scottish (born and educated there) despite living and working in England for the last decade.

Another 100% Kiwi. Cut me, I bleed black and red, the Cantab' colours!

I do have British nationality, also, but my family is 7 generations in Aotearoa.

My passport says I'm British. My heart says I'm from Yorkshire.

British, born in England. Both my parents were half-Irish, and DF's father was Welsh.

French nationality, French ethnicity, Parisian - Londoner identity.

I am Irish.

My Mum, who has an Irish Mother and and English Father, and who was born and brought up in England considers herself to be English, and would never get an Irish passport despite living here (in Ireland) for years.

My husband, who has an Irish Father and an English Mother and who was born and brought up in England, considers himself to be Irish, and has an Irish passport.

Our children who were born in England but who are now being brought up in Ireland have only ever has Irish passports and we consider them to be Irish. Who knows what they will chose for themselves when they are older.

So really, it isn't black and white. And really, it's a bit daft - what difference does it make in the big scheme of things? Just another way to keep people seperated into little factions and tribes.

[quote ConstantlySeekingHappiness]@MurielSpriggs

Can I ask, why do you consider yourself Irish if you weren’t born there, didn’t grow up there, and neither parent is Irish?[/quote]
In short I'm embarrassed to be British, and I have Irish nationality (and only an Irish passport now). I'd rather like London to declare independence! I feel no affinity with the rest of the country.

"British" fudges it well enough for me - born and live in England, mum Scottish, dad's family from NI. Culturally, linguistically and in terms of family ties, "English" jars a bit, and I don't pass the cricket test. My son, though, is uncomplicatedly English. So maybe it takes 2 generations not one?

DH puts Yorkshire on the census.