Rip wrote: > "Anne Chambers" <anne@privacy.net> wrote in message > news:5t1ffvF1bqhcjU1@mid.individual.net... >> Anne Chambers wrote: >> >>> Possibly he might have dual citizenship, but this is unlikely if >>> the >>> family haven't lived in Albania for generations. He would be an >>> Italian >>> of Albanian extraction or an Italian of Albanian ancestry. What he >>> considers himself to be, culturally, is a completely different >>> matter. >> To be pedantic...that should probably be 'an Italian *with* Albanian >> ancestry' or 'an Italian *of* Albanian descent' :) > > But he already said that he was born in Italy and many of his past > generations were born in Italy. > > Am I German because someone moved here from Germany in the 1880's? And > all his decedents were born in the US? > > No - that's what I am saying. He is Italian. With Albanian ancestry...which is obviously important to him. -- Anne Chambers, South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

Anne Chambers wrote: > Rip wrote: > >> "Anne Chambers" <anne@privacy.net> wrote in message >> news:5t1ffvF1bqhcjU1@mid.individual.net... >> >>> Anne Chambers wrote: >>> >>>> Possibly he might have dual citizenship, but this is unlikely if the >>>> family haven't lived in Albania for generations. He would be an >>>> Italian >>>> of Albanian extraction or an Italian of Albanian ancestry. What he >>>> considers himself to be, culturally, is a completely different matter. >>> >>> To be pedantic...that should probably be 'an Italian *with* Albanian >>> ancestry' or 'an Italian *of* Albanian descent' :) >> >> >> But he already said that he was born in Italy and many of his past >> generations were born in Italy. >> >> Am I German because someone moved here from Germany in the 1880's? And >> all his decedents were born in the US? >> >> > No - that's what I am saying. He is Italian. With Albanian > ancestry...which is obviously important to him. It is a personal choice I was born in England but I am 11/16 welsh and 5/16 english so far after 25 years there I am very much a Copenhagener but never will be a dane evenn though I am bilingual in Danish I regard myself as a European with a welsh background I have worked as a professional musician in England Wales Scotland, Northrtn Ireland, Éire, Faeroe Islands, Norway Sweden Denmark Germany Netherlands Switzerland, Prague when it was Czechoslovakia, and Austria being paid travel cost, hotel and a fee is the best way to go:-) I paid to visit Iceland, France and Spain so they don't count I get half an old age pension from UK and half from DK I only wish they both used the Euro Hugh W -- For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/ http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG