Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!pjm
From: pjm@ut-emx.UUCP (Phillip MacQueen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle crews named for 1991 missions [STS-43, STS-44, STS-45]
Keywords: Citizenship
Message-ID: <30479@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 16:58:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article (50112@ames.arc.nasa.gov) (from yee@trident.arc.nase.gov) occurs:

>     Foale also will make his first space flight.  He was born an 
> American citizen on Jan. 6, 1957, in Louth, England, and considers 
> Cambridge, England, his hometown.  

>     Lucid will make her third flight, having flown as mission 
> specialist on STS-51G and STS-34.  She was born an American 
> citizen in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 14, 1943, and considers 
> Bethany, Okla., her hometown.

  Surely these should read something like:

  ... was born a British citizen in Louth, England, on Jan. 6th, 1957, and
claimed American citizenship through ... (for example, his parents American
citizenship).

  ... was born a Chinese citizen in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 14th, 1943, and
claimed American citizenship through ... etc.


  I am a little sensitive to this point, being a foreign citizen with two
children born in the U.S.A.  They have dual citizenship due to their country
of birth and the citizenship of my wife and I, hence two passports, two birth
certificates etc.  I learnt very quickly not to mention this fact because it
received patronizing condescension from even the most mild mannered of folk.
I can't imagine the response to suggesting that they were born New Zealand
citizens in the U.S.! (which isn't true of course, probably like the two
examples above).

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Phillip MacQueen
pjm@astro.as.utexas.edu
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