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Originally posted by JimIrie
Originally posted by schuyler
reply to post by JimIrie
my passport says "USA" I would never say, "I am USA." but I would say, "I am American." which isn't even close to what is on the passport.
Yes, I understand, and I am saying it is a minor bit of semantics that doesn't mean squat. I am also saying the German passport is more linguistically correct than the others. It answers the question; the others do not.
Thats the point!
Everywhere on the world stands the nation on the pass.
But as germany in legal terms doesn´t exist as a nation it showes DEUTSCH not DEUTSCHLAND! Understand?
Originally posted by octotom
reply to post by felonius
My family became americans BUT kept the love of the homeland alive!
It's silly, in my opinion, have a "love for the homeland". It's not your home.
I'm Scottish by decent but I'm not some big Scotland lover or anything. There's not logic to it. I'm an American. That's my home. Not where my ancestors came from.
We leaned engish (you dont see state doc's offered in German do you?)
Yes, in Florida, where I'm from, you can get voting stuff in German if requested.
I bet that there are lots of official papers in German in America if you just know where to look!
Originally posted by foxhoundone
reply to post by Pryde87
"while to make sure that they dont do it again. Tell me this, how many Jews killed Germans in the war, eh? "
Not alot of people are aware of this, But it has long been speculated that the real reason Hitler declared war on Poland (and later invaded) was because of the ethnic cleansing going on close to German/Polish border at that (1935/39) Time.
It was established that up to 60/70 thousand Germans were killed and the ring leaders were allegedly funded by the Jewish church...
Originally posted by mothershipzeta
Originally posted by MrSpad
So Germany is an American colony or its run by satan? I am not sure what your trying to tell us.
Don't forget what we recently learned on ATS: that the US doesn't exist, and still belongs to the UK!
I'm just trying to figure out how gold-fringed US flags work into all this...also the war flag vs the civil flag of peacetime.
Every time I see a thread like this, I
Originally posted by zolom
reply to post by octotom
Hey there.
I looked it up and on the "Reisepass" ist states "DEUTSCH" als nationality aswell. No difference between the "Ausweis" and the "Reisepass".
Either Germany is the only country in the world where the description of citizenship is made somehow else or something is fishy.
Whatever it is, it is good enough reason to investigate.
Originally posted by AudioGhost
reply to post by felonius
In the continental congress they had a vote on the official language of our nation the United States of America, German lost by 1 vote; I would imagine there are many documents in German.
Originally posted by zolom
From a linguistic perspective the German version is just plain out wrong. It should be named "Personenausweis" like it is in the 2 other German speaking countries Austria and Switzerland.