Wait a second You re saying Native American is basically a nationality Can you provide a reference for that because it seems like an unusual interpretation So again you d say a kid born to two legitimate Native American parents on Mars who never became part of the community wouldn t have any right to call himself native american Additionally in the policy discussions regarding race ethnicity religion and gender nationality was also discussed as a potential ambiguous category For instance if I take a Mexican kid at 6 months old to the states and raise him here so that he speaks English and is essentially 100 culturally American do I continue to call him Mexican simply b c he doesn t hold US citizenship The point is that there s a technical legal definition to what American means but there s also a cultural definition