You have one right fewer than natively born Americans - you can't become the President. Make of that what you will.

I don’t mind it. Learned about it in elementary. But not stat tracking citizenship employment seems like a blind spot?

tialaramex 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is another one of the weird American-isms that many Americans don't realise isn't normal everywhere else.

Boris Johnson was born in New York. "He wasn't born in this country" probably wasn't even on anybody's top-100 problems with Boris as Prime Minister.

	▲	RaptorJ 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The US president is both Head of State and Head of Government. It turns out there's a bunch of countries that require the head of state to be a natural born citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_qualifica...
	▲	hx8 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The requirements to be US President isn't to be born in the US, but to be a "natural born citizen." While the rules of being a natural born citizen is more complicated if born outside of the US, you can generally become one if one of your parents is a US citizen.
	▲	wavemode 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I wouldn't call it an Americanism, per se. There are plenty of countries where you can't become a citizen at all without having a relative who is one. There are also plenty of countries where, even being born there is not sufficient for citizenship (in fact, only 35 countries in the world grant citizenship unconditionally via being born within the borders).
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Didn't stop Barrack Obama..

	▲	nobodyandproud a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Every time I wonder why I don’t lean more Republican, gems like this jog me back. There’s a lot of reasons not to like Obama’s 8 years or why he wasn’t the best candidate. But for god’s sakes, this isn’t one of them.