Posted on 01/18/2010 8:03:54 AM PST by stevie_d_64
Like his father before him, French publisher, author and political commentator Eric Naulleau was born into a military family assigned to a temporary foreign posting. But because his birth happened abroad, where his father - himself born in Lebanon to a French army father - was serving France's national interests, Naulleau has had to wage a long and surreal battle with the government to prove that he's actually a French citizen. Naulleau is just one of a growing number of French people born outside France or in the country to foreign parents who are now being told they must present documents supporting their nationality if they want to keep it.
"What a lot of people don't realize is that with the increasingly strict obligation to prove your citizenship, you can walk into a state administration today to have your ID or passport renewed, and walk out virtually a stateless person," says Naulleau, 48, whose family had been posted to Baden-Baden, Germany - about 30 miles from the French border - when he was born in 1961. "The situation is creating a two-class system of citizenship in which French nationals born abroad or to foreign parents are treated as inferior, and forced to prove their worthiness of being French more than others."
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Wee-Wee???
If they fight for recognition as Frenchmen, then they don't seem very French. If, on the other hand, they refuse to fight and simply run away, they would appear to qualify as French.
The reason I posteed this was to see how long it takes for the Birth Certificate crowd comes in and explains why we need to see Obama’s credentials...
Not that I am opposed to that idea, it is just ironic how illustrative the whole situation is about that issue...
Sarko’s father was a Hungarian immigrant.
Easy test — if you’re burning other people’s cars in the street, you’re not French.
Over here, you don't even have to prove you're an American to be President.
Over here, you don't even have to prove you're an American to be President.
I understand the whole point and the emotions of the story. Both of my daughters were born overseas while I was posted there by the U.S. Army. The oldest girl in the FRG and the baby in the ROK. All kinds of questions and comments as well as odd looks tossed their way when they were in applying for jobs, applying for a drivers license, applying for college,etc.
why don’t they start with the obvious illegals?
ding ding ding!!! Winner Winner Winner...
But dude, really, you didn’t have to post it twice...hehehe
(don’t worry, happens to me alllll the time...)
I would guess the reason that France is forcing some of its citizens to prove their citizenship is because they want to decrease what they have to pay out in socialist programs.
If they’re requiring people accepted as citizens for decades to prove citizenship, the French are actually going farther than we ever have in this area.
Not sure why, but since this weekend, almost all of my posts have appeared twice
That should be easy enough...just assume the surrender position!
Does it require disrobing to show the yellow steak down their backs?
Good for the French.
I wish the Brits would get tough too..
and the US.
I am convinced that half the laws passed by France over the last 200 years are about the concept of “Being French.” It’s a country whose #1 activity is navel gazing.
#2 is smoking.
#3 is smoking while thinking about what it means to be French.
#4 is smoking while thinking about what it means to be French and eating cheese.
I’m a fan of #1...
“And just because I am chained to the tree, doesn’t mean I can’t bark at the porch!”
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