Dear colleagues,
Have you ever wished you were a citizen of another country other than your current one?
Please share your opinions.
Kind regards
I never had a reason to wish I'm not a Nigerian because I never had a choice for my nationality. All that's left undone is to make something good out of my national identity. QED!
Have you ever wished you were a citizen of another country other than your current one?
I did wish that when I was younger traveling abroad. Because those days I tried to compare & contrast what I'd seen & experienced. But later realized it was a wishful thinking that is not real. More practical approach is to do my level best in where I'm residing. Like the saying goes something like this "it is easier to change ourselves rather than to change our surrounding environment to fit us".
Dear Dr. Andrew Mtewa , I never wished and I want to be a citizen of my country. I love my country most forever!!. No other country give you more comfort than your home country my brother. Love your country and live there with comfort and peace my friend.
Wish you a prestigious life!!
When I was in my 20s I never wished a citizen of another country other than my current one. Because of current situation of my country in terms of unemployment, pollution level, and many more social issues I have no proud to be citizen of my current country.
No, but I wish my country improves it political system by creating the one that fits is as the Citizens.
Yes Andrew, I have. And truth be told very many have too. But like Han said, that was when i was much younger and understood very little. People made those countries people wish to be citizens of what and how they are. Economies of all kinds and securities of all nations are determined by the quality of man power of nations. My country Nigeria is in dire need of quality leadership and people willing to make sacrifices. No body can love your country more than you. I can no longer and will never wish to be a citizen of another country, after all, "there is no place like home".
I am planning to take citizenship of the country I have lived for the past 20 years. There is no challenge with 'loving' one's native place, but often decisions about citizenship are pragmatic. Many of my colleagues who are from other countries have taken up the citizenship of the country they work in. This allows us to stay even when we retire (usually residency is connected with a work contract), it also reflects that we not only respect our new home, but have become like citizens, liking the country, criticizing it at times, willing to contribute to the betterment of this new home.
At such stage it is not uncommon that sooner or later the reflection about taking up citizenship starts. Maybe I could quote from a song by Stephen Stills (slightly changed however) "if you can't be in the one you love, love the one you're in", but as I mentioned above it is less about emotions, rather than rational choices.
Another aspect I wish to add without wanting to do injustice to anybody, but to see citizenship too emotional has also its challenges as history shows in far too many cases.
At Dr Maurice (Mentor) I am pushed to say you have flat unvarnished truth.
Observations and experiences have a pivotal role in wishing to be a citizen of another country or not. Ab initio, at our relative bermuda triangles, where things are vertically and horizontally challenged consequence upon leadership decisions, one may wished that.
However, going through history you will understand that some of the countries one may wished to be must have experienced what normally prompt the thought of citizenship in another country.
Interestingly, the determination to say let's not leave it as it is, for ages have marked time but patriotic citizens can make it a wished-to-be-place is a reasonable shot at making our country our heaven.
Yes, I did and still do, but I will disclose the reason to you only personally. Let me praise you for posing a question that millions of people worldwide must have asked themselves in the privacy and the loneliless of their soul. Kudos!
No. Because I love my country, Uzbekistan. Here is everything for me.
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