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Post by lindalovely on Apr 14, 2023 16:04:18 GMT 1
Getting another passport doesn't change you. Thinking you are English because it says so "in the records" is very naive.
Wouldn't becoming a French citizen and having a French passport be the same as also being naive in so much you are actually English/British o whatever and only a French citizen in name only? I have absolutely nothing against anyone going for French nationality but no one has ever convinced me that you will feel more of an affinity with the French. I live in a commune of around 170 people spread around the area, they wouldn't have a scooby if I had changed to being a citizen, or was still the English chap in the commune. I get on well with the locals, very well with my direct neighbours and having citizenship would not make one iota of difference. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose........... and all that. I think that possibly says more about you than anything else. I don't mean that as a criticism but I genuinely do feel half British, half French. I guess it is like children who have parents with different Nationalities. My sister-in-law had an English father and an Italian mother, and so she is dual national and I can honestly say she sees herself as both British and Italian. of course in the UK where she speaks English as her mother tongue she is only known as English, but in Italy she is treated as a fellow Italian, even though she has never lived in Italy. When the children of English nationals who were born in France, go to visit the UK, do you think they are seen as French or British? It's not really about how others see you though, but how you see yourselves. I mean, lets face it many British people see fellow Brits with dark skin as somehow non. British..your passport or Nationality doesn't stop people being racist or Xenophobic.
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Post by omegal on Apr 14, 2023 18:35:38 GMT 1
To be honest I see myself as a Brit living in France from early days Provence (04) then the Dordogne (24) then Miniac Morvan (35) then close to Dinan (22) total years in France over 30 years. I guess it says I am a Brit who loves living in France but sees no benefit in gaining French citizenship, to me it means a vote but the country always gets the government it deserves, isn't that what they say? I feel European, my early life was spent in Sitges, Spain, now the last 30 odd years in France, so roughly half my life has been in Europe. We have children brought up here, our Daughter intends to apply, she is far more French than British but feels half and half even though nearly all her life has been here in France and she is now closing in on 39 years of age. So I guess we see ourselves how we want to, not how others see us, if that makes sense....
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Post by glazedallover on Apr 14, 2023 19:47:14 GMT 1
My first gite holiday in France was in Miniac Morgan about 1997. Nice place.
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