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Originally Posted by DerailAmnesty.com
From a completely utilitarian viewpoint of a parent (which I am not), it's hard to imagine many gifts of greater value to bestow upon your child than U.S. citizenship.
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Maybe that's one of the things that has gone wrong with US citizenship, that it has become a gift to be given rather than something to be practiced. The whole idea of
citizenship as the standard of basic existence in a modern representative governed society has been eroded away by a kind of weird feudalism.