Re: Ding Wen's interview

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-l8s-this>]

  To: sicklittlemonkey
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:12 -0800, sicklittlemonkey wrote:

> It's interesting how complicated this gets when people migrate. And
> how some countries (actually Japan is the only one I know of) make it
> more complicated.
> 
> I was born in England, raised mostly in NZ.
> -> No problem: dual UK/NZ citizenship.
> 
> My sister was born in Malawi, raised mostly in NZ.
> -> No problem: dual UK/NZ citizenship.
> 
> My daughter was born in Japan, will be raised in NZ.
> -> Her family name is her mother's, not mine
> -> When she turns 20, she (officially) has to choose Japanese or other
> citizenship.
> 
> I hope it's not so complicated for you guys.

Not having migrated, it certainly isn't complicated for me.  Both my
mother's and my father's families have been living on what is now
Canadian soil since before Canada was a country.  I'm not sure exactly
when my mother's family arrived but if I remember correctly, my father's
family was kicked out of the US in 1784 for being Loyalists.  :-)

Back in the early 90's I was living with two friends in North York
(northern part of the Greater Toronto Area) and received the long
version of the census form that the government sent out.  In it there
was a question that caused some controversy.  They asked what your
ethnic background was but Canadian was not a choice so I checked "Other"
and wrote in Canadian.  :-)