Trevor Noah is brilliant, once again…

Noah received a criticism from the French about a joke he told regarding the French soccer team. And he turned that rebuke on its [b]head[/b].
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Ynotisay · M

I really like Trevor Noah. Smart with a crazy fast, funny mind. Sucks that he's leaving. But I'm not too on board with this one.
When you're born in a country, irrespective of ancestry, you're a citizen of that country. The person who wrote that letter was correct. Those players are a product of France. Not a country that their parents, grandparents or lineage farther back lived in. Now France has some issues around race. But it doesn't negate that that the team is made up of mostly French athletes. I think this take was purposefully intended to divide. He used that as a launching pad for a whole lot of things that had nothing to with those athletes.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Ynotisay I could honestly understand both perspectives very well. And the idea of being able to embrace [b]both[/b] isn’t really divisive.

Ynotisay · M

@bijouxbroussard Maybe. But I didn't see a lot of both in "Africa won the World Cup." That said, he's a talk show host. Nuance just doesn't play as well in the forum as specific statements do. He did acknowledge it though. Most wouldn't.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Ynotisay [quote]When you're born in a country, irrespective of ancestry, you're a citizen of that country. [/quote]
Only in [i]jus soli[i] countries. The majority of countries have [i]jus sanguinis[/i], that is one or both of the parents must be citizens. Also several [i]jus soli[/i] countries have some restrictions on the right rather than it being unrestricted as in the US and other American countries.

See, for instance, https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-birthright-citizenship