Because their family has lived in Germany for a hundred years and they have no link to another place in living memory?
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sexy_peach@feddit.org 5 weeks agoWhy would you be?
Genius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
sexy_peach@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Most US-american families haven’t lived in the US for 100s of years, but they’re still US-americans, not Irish, Spanish, German etc.
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because that’s what true “citizenship-by-blood/heritage laws more or less straight out of the 19th century” would imply.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
In 2025 they just mean “if either of your parents was a citizen when you were born, you can be too”