dispute according to many a translation site and many a german the correct way to say you are from a certain city is to say ich bin city while we all love jfk and everyone knows exactly what he wanted to say he did in fact call himself a berliner a type of jelly doughnut while we cannot dispute what he was trying to say this is not an urban legend and jfk did call himself a doughnut needs more documentation on how this is to be the correct way to say you are from a german city even if he did stress the ein