Editing Nationality (section)

== Nationality versus national identity ==
[[National identity]] is person's subjective sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. A person may be a national of a state, in the sense of being its [[citizen]], without subjectively or emotionally feeling a part of that state, for example a migrant may identify with their ancestral and/or religious background rather than with the state of which they are citizens. Conversely, a person may feel that he belongs to one state without having any legal relationship to it. For example, children who were brought to the US illegally when quite young and grew up there while having little contact with their native country and their culture often have a national identity of feeling American, despite legally being nationals of a different country.