Why is it in many European countries, your citizenship is not based on being born in said country but by the citizenship of your parents?

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Why is it in many European countries, your citizenship is not based on being born in said country but by the citizenship of your parents?

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European states are approximately based on what we call nations. A nation is a somewhat mystic entity of humans that feel they belong together. If two people of nation X have a kid the nation feels that kid also belongs to them. Add a thousand asterisks and migration and racism and all that fun stuff but that’s roughly the idea.

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