Nationality denotes your nation of origin, your national identity. If you were born and raised and live in America, you are American. When you say you are Irish and german, you refer to your ethnicity.

I am Canadian but of Finnish/Irish decent. I believe your nationality is what nation you are a citizen of or where you were born. Correct me if I am wrong anybody.

YOUR AMERICAN!!!!

It depends on how people identify themselves. For example if you are a citizen of UK your Nationality is British. If you hold two passports you have dual nationality. If you ask a different question i.e. where are you from? The same person might say English if they were born in England or if they view themselves as English. When someone asks me I assume it is because they are trying to guess where my colourings come from so I say I was born in England but my parents/grandparents were originally from Cyprus/Ireland etc.

Unless you have lived a large slice of your life in Ireland or Germany, I would say you are American, of Irish and German parentage. If your father was a doctor, that does not make you a doctor, but it does make you of medical parentage. If your mother was a singer, that does not make you a singer but of musical parentage. Did you go through the Irish or German school system, or through the American one. Do you speak fluent German, or have an Irish accent? Which German or Irish towns do you know your way around? What is your experience of Guinness and the Octoberfest? Is Barack Obama American, or Kenyan/Irish? His father came from Kenya, his mothers ancestors from Ireland. I say he is american.

When someone asks my nationality I say that I am American because I am. If they ask my heritage I say Romanian Romani (Romani = "Gypsy"). Romani is my ethnicity, Romanian is my national heritage (all of my family is there and have been there for centuries).

Your ethnicity is not the debate. You nationality is what it says on your passport if you have one. If you are an American Citizen it would say American not Irish or German.

Nationality is where you are from, what you are referring to is ethnicity.

then you are an irish german blooded American

My mom says that and when i asked her why she says its because she relates more to the american culter then that of her native land.

Technically, you are an American, of German/Irish ancestery.

Well, because I am American. I was born in America, I love America, I will fight for America and I will die in America. I am mostly of Irish decent, but I don't care squat about Ireland.

I am a proud American (USA) first, the rest to motel hell. My 2 cents.

I am american..but my nationality is german :)

Because I'm an American. I'm 100% ethnically Polish, but I know about 3 words of Polish, and nothing of Polish culture. My grandfathers and great-grandparents came over on the boat, and thank God they did, but that makes them Polish / naturalized American.

You are an American, of Irish and German heritage.

I'm an American of Swiss, German, and Irish ancestry. I think people say they are American because they associate culturally with America (The Great Melting Pot).

then say im irish and german

Inside of America there is this weird cultural quirk to say I am Italian, I am Polish, etc. But when these "Italians" and "Poles" go to Italy and Poland, they are called Americans by the tens of millions of people there. This strange tendency in the US to look at ethnicity and call it nationality is not very common in other countries. Legally, you are an American and the rest is immaterial. In many Latin American countries I lived in, what citizenship they hold is what their nationality is. They are also children of immigrants but they are a 100% Venezuelans and Colombians and Argentineans. None of this US b's'. One nation under God? My nose!!

The US Constitution decides who and what is American and who is not an American. The Founding Fathers fought a war and rejected England so that they could have a new nation under God- America and call themselves American. And not British. And they spilled blood so that you too can call yourself that way. If you are a US citizen, your nationality is American. Why? Because that is what the Law of the Land says. All people born or naturalized in the US are US citizens. US citizen= American. Not only that, the world's 6,000,000,000 people and governments of 200+ countries consider you such. So, what's up? Do you not want to be one? Do you disagree with the US Constitution? And the entire world? If you are Irish by nationality,well, does that mean you live in the US as a foreigner? -taking jobs away from Americans? If you are German by nationality, well that again means you are living on foreign soil as an alien? What's up? OK, here is the test for you- go to Ireland and Germany and see if the people there will treat you as an Irish or a German or if they will call you an American.Also, pay specific attention to how the governments in those countries will treat you. Will they declare you a German or an Irishman? Will they allow you to freely work and live there without a visa? My feel is that if you go there, after about 3 months, your visa will expire and you will have to leave or face deportation back to the US. So, go ahead and tell them that you are a German or an Irishman. See if they accept that. Because German and Irish people and governments decide who is Irish and who is not. Who is German and who is not. Not you! When you are in a local German immigration jail, on a damp jail floor, awaiting till the Germans and the Irish put you on a plane back home to the US, after you pay your fine for overstaying, you will learn what your true nationality is. On the other hand, if you have both German and Irish passports and speak the languages of those countries with local accents, well, then you are a triple national and my hat's off to you, otherwise, get ready to hear- "Yankee, go home!" And get a big boot in your rear on your way out!