[einpoklum]

> In Europe the notion of someone being a African Frenchmen or a African English is absurd.

Yes, but

> You are your nationality.

Only if you're a nationalist. Many believe in cross-national or non-national collective identities, e.g. the identity of being a wage worker.

In other cases - it's groups oppressed by the state. The Catalan and Basque come to mind; and there are the Roma ("gypsies"), who are not territorially-defined.

etc.

[aspnet_dev]

> Only if you're a nationalist.

Nope. That is how the law and the state sees it.

[einpoklum]

So, if I live in a monarchy, and the law and the state see my identity as a loyal subject of our glorious king, then that's what I should believe?