Why “Citizenship” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
This is historically inaccurate and ideologically charged. "During USSR" as you say, first wave of Russian immigration settled in West Berlin in 1920s running away from Russian…
by ivan_gammel · Oct 18, 2026
People are not servants of evil. What motivates this insane reasoning? As somebody with a German Citizenship I love my country and everybody who inhabits it. to give context: re…
by leothetechguy · Oct 18, 2026
That is saying that if you do the dumb thing, you can end up stateless. It does not say that this happens in Japan. That's because it doesn't. I checked today. Japan requires th…
by timr · Oct 18, 2026
Japan is on its way to losing its culture because of demographic decline. Babies aren't happening, and that doesn't seem likely to change soon. Making citizenship as hard as pos…
by TheOtherHobbes · Oct 18, 2026
Disclaimer: I carefully read the whole thing. > In light of that final insult and all the above and more details I have forgotten or omit, it may seem strange to say that overal…
by deaux · Oct 18, 2026
I don't know if something's wrong with me, but this sounds like a humiliation ritual. I understand citizenship is a serious business to the point of creating a duty to go to war…
by entropyneur · Oct 18, 2026
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Citizenship is a membership in the political community of and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership. Read more on Wikipedia