An example of citizenship is someone being born in the United States and having access to all the same freedoms and rights as those already living in the US. A person’s conduct as a citizen. The status or condition of a citizen. The duties, rights, and privileges of this status.

Citizenship matters because it determines the legal relationship about who is included in the body politic and who is excluded. Nationalism is intimately tied to citizenship, as it is the nation-state, through its promotion of nationalism that connects people to a nation.

In general, an applicant submits to USCIS an Application for Replacement Naturalization/Citizenship Document (Form N-565) to request a replacement Certificate of Citizenship or Certificate of Naturalization. The application must be submitted with the appropriate fee and in accordance with the form instructions.

Social classifications

Las Islas Filipinas

There are 900,000 to one million ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, roughly 1.2% to 1.5% of the total Philippine population.

the Philippines collectively are called Filipinos. The ancestors of the vast majority of the population were of Malay descent and came from the Southeast Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia. Contemporary Filipino society consists of nearly 100 culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups.

Malays (Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the eastern Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands which lie between these locations — areas that are collectively known as the Malay world.

Before the onset of European colonisation, the Malay Peninsula was known natively as “Tanah Melayu” (“Malay Land”). The name “Malaysia” was adopted in 1963 when the existing states of the Federation of Malaya, plus Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak formed a new federation.

1511: Portugal makes first European colonial claim on Malaysia, capturing Malacca. 1641: Dutch East India Company and local allies push Portuguese from Malacca. 1700s: Now known as Malaya, its trading ports gain more economic clout as British trade with China expands.

According to a report by the World Bank, the Malaysian diaspora around the world in 2010 included around a million people, most of them ethnic Chinese. The main reasons for emigrating are the better economic and career prospects abroad and a sense of social injustice within Malaysia.

The earliest anatomically modern humans skeleton in Peninsular Malaysia, Perak Man, dates back 11,000 years and Perak Woman dating back 8,000 years, were both discovered in Lenggong. The site has an undisturbed stone tool production area, created using equipment such as anvils and hammer stones.

Islam is thought to have been brought to Malaysia around the 12th century by Indian traders. In the early 15th century the Malacca Sultanate, commonly considered the first independent state in the peninsula, was founded.