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You don't understand the concept of being a people? Citizenship is not an award, it's not something one deserves. But it's not something you can give to anyone either.

How do you define yourself? Don't you have a people, a group or tribe (whatever you want to call it) you belong to? I know people who define themselves as "human" and "citizen of the world", but they are quite uncommon.

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> Citizenship

Is a legal construct, which can be granted to a natural person by law.

Legislation can be (relatively) easily changed. I don't think there's anything preventing legislators from granting citizenship to $PERSON for $REASON.

So I'd argue that it is something that can be given - it's just that there's reasons that it's not.

In some EU countries you can buy it. For a very high of investment.

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