The assigned nationality of an artist (person or group) in the Bainbridge Bunting Slide Library collections The assigned nationality might be derived from the individual's place of birth, citizenship distinct from place of birth, ancestry distinct from citizenship, or common association with a country distinct from either ancestry or citizenship e g Canadian for Robert Houle
1 a legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state, membership in a particular nation 2 a people having a common tradition and language, and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation state
You can refer to people who have the same racial origins as a nationality, especially when they do not have their own independent country. the many nationalities that comprise Ethiopia. Affiliation with a particular nation or sovereign state. People, business corporations, ships, and aircraft all have nationalities. Nationality is inferior to citizenship, insofar as the latter implies a full set of political privileges and the former does not. Countries have limited rights to determine which of their inhabitants will be their nationals. People generally acquire a nationality by birth within a particular country's territory, by inheritance from one or both parents, or by naturalization. It may change or be augmented or taken away if a country cedes control of the territory where one lives to another country
The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism
If you have the nationality of a particular country, you were born there or have the legal right to be a citizen. The crew are of different nationalities and have no common language