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- What is the difference between citizen and denizen
A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there Technically speaking, one could never be, for example, a citizen of the Earth -- but we're all denizens of the Earth
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen . . .
OED has a note on citizen: The semantic development has been influenced by classical Latin cīvis (see civic adj ) It seems like the semantic drift in citizen, civilian, civic, etc from "city-dweller" to one with legal rights within any governed community involves both legal and military history
- Why isnt citizen spelled as citisen in British English?
Analyze does have the -ize -ise suffix, just a different spelling From the OED: "On Greek analogies the vb would have been analysize, Fr analysiser, of which analyser was practically a shortened form, since, though following the analogy of pairs like annexe, annexe-r, it rested chiefly on the fact that by form-assoc it appeared already to belong to the series of factitive vbs in -iser
- Difference between voters, electorates and constituents
Here's my understanding: A voter is simply an individual person who votes, or potentially votes An electorate is a defined geographic area that votes for the outcome of a single seat, or a set of seats
- What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
USA "American" covers a lot more ground - Mexicans and Canadians are Americans, and some of them object strenuously to equating "American" to "citizen of the USA" Not to mention Brazilians, Ecuadoreans, etc , all of whom are Americans Plus, as a legal matter, the name of the country is not "America"
- Which term is correct — Afghan or Afghani?
A citizen or native of Afghanistan From an Afghan point of view this name is wrongly being used for Afghans After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan The Pakistanis and the international aid agencies coined this word to speak of Pakistanis versus the Afghans 2
- Difference between civic rights and civil rights
The term Civic Rights would have limited use with regard to an individual citizen As to whether the two terms, Civil Rights and Civic Rights, are interchangeable, they are not in most cases Civic applies to rights as a member official with regard to their community
- Why are the United States often referred to as America?
You think is my opinion that northamerican is just USa citizen Well you should get a trip to anywhere in let's say from México to Antártica and you'll understand my point Is like when you say European and commonly you're never including the turks
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