Don't you think people can have multiple or mixed identities, as well as loyalties and residence? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Is there an official Latin name for the rhetorical device of grasping at straws?
And it seems I wasn't clear enough. I don't think that most Turks born in Germany have rally a split loyality. At least not one, where Germany could get a similar priority for them as Turkey. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
There is a Turk from Turkey, who just came for phd, in the institute I work. I have never met a Turk less nationalistic than him. I have the impression, that living in Germany may make Turks more nationalistic instead of less. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
But the relevant question is, is that the typical case.
Relevant to what, and typical in what sense?
I have some migration experience, and I'd say mixed loyalties are almost universal - but there is a wide scale of the relative weights.
But with non-EU citizens this a real problem.
Why do you consider this a significant problem? Especially when compared to the problem for those non-EU citizens, whom you'd bar from influencing decisions affecting their lives (in addition to several little bureaucratic obstacles to conducting their lives)? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
