Moving to France doesn't make you French

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[–]truthwins 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Let me put it this way: I currently live in Ireland. The Irish hate it when people who aren’t from the country claim to be Irish. They’re called “Plastic Paddies” and are mocked. It doesn’t matter that I’m 40% Irish according to my DNA test; I’m not Irish. Even if I got citizenship, I didn’t grow up in the country or the culture. I will never be fully Irish in their eyes. Which is fine, because that’s how Europeans see it. If you go to Austria and claim to be Austrian, the Austrians will roll their eyes behind your back; I’m serious. It’s one thing to have Austrian ancestry and even citizenship, it’s another to be Austrian.

[–]Shinjin_Nana 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

what you're missing is that there's multiple ways to BE irish. and none of them are based on rolling irish eyes.

The irish might roll their eyes, but if you have part or no irish blood but citizenship via their laws you are still their equals under their laws. You ARE irish as seen by the law.

You can have irish blood and be born in america with irish american culture. The irish in ireland might roll their eyes, but it doesn't erase your ancestry.

You can have no blood, be born elsewhere, migrate as a child and be raised in Irish culture. Are you irish enough to stop dem rolling eyes?

You can be full blood or half blood or no blood only existing withing their law structure as Irish on paper and STILL be irish. Rolling eyes notwithstanding.
You would have to have a hitlerian level of pure blood family's been here for centuries papers please view of nationality and ethnicity for your analogy against gender identity to work.

It falls apart because while there are many ways to interact with an ethnicity and culture, but there is no way a man can be the same a biologically different woman, no matter how much he mutilates himself.