[78-L] Olde-timers^ [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Did she apply for French citizenship?  Did she surrender her US citizenship?  These could be a measure of how one defines oneself.  

I just missed getting dual citizenship as a Bulgarian [they changed the law just before I became eligible so that I would have had to give up my
US citizenship, which I would never do.]  AS it is, I am a permanent resident alien, with the BG equivalent of the green card,  but even if I had dual citizenship I would still consider myself an American in Bulgaria.
Stevenc, being an emigre, may have some comment also....

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers^
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> Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 12:30 PM
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> From: "eugene hayhoe" <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>
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> 
> Are you defined by where you were born or what/where/how
> you want your 
> spirit and energy to be directed? I could argue both sides
> and feel like I 
> had a losing argument.
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> 
> Gene,  I think the latter way is the "right"
> way.  I think each individual 
> person should make of themselves what they will,  and
> not allow any of the 
> rest of us to put them in a box.  For example,  I
> see someone who moves from 
> another country to the US and identifies as an American is
> just as American 
> as anyone else.  I don't know all the details of
> Baker's life,  but my 
> impression was that once she went to France she felt at
> home there,  for a 
> variety of reasons,  and I believe that she herself
> indentified as 
> French....if it worked for her, that's good enough for me.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
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