Boston Globe Article: the United Kingdom Border Agency is using genetic tests since last September on some African asylum seekers in order to find out whether they are lying about their nationality. An agency spokesman said Britain was the only country using genetic tests that way.
The Boston Globe article quotes Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist at the University of Leicester who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting: "Genes are not aware of national borders, Nationality is a legal concept, and it's got nothing to do with genetics at all."
Hopefully, a lot of French citizens are aware of that, as France launched on November 2 a national debate on National Identity. The government lauched a site allowing visitors to answer this question: Pour vous, qu’est-ce qu’être Français aujourd’hui ? - According to you, what does it mean to be French today?
A list of questions helps shape one's opinion.
Quelles sont les éléments de l’identité nationale? Well, reading this question, it is already obvious that the government will not list "knowing how to write a simple phrase in French without making a huge gramatical mistake" as a component of being French, as this particular question is flawed with a major grammatical mistake... Or is this a component of being French? At least, no genetic tests are necessary...
The Boston Globe article quotes Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist at the University of Leicester who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting: "Genes are not aware of national borders, Nationality is a legal concept, and it's got nothing to do with genetics at all."
Hopefully, a lot of French citizens are aware of that, as France launched on November 2 a national debate on National Identity. The government lauched a site allowing visitors to answer this question: Pour vous, qu’est-ce qu’être Français aujourd’hui ? - According to you, what does it mean to be French today?
A list of questions helps shape one's opinion.
Quelles sont les éléments de l’identité nationale? Well, reading this question, it is already obvious that the government will not list "knowing how to write a simple phrase in French without making a huge gramatical mistake" as a component of being French, as this particular question is flawed with a major grammatical mistake... Or is this a component of being French? At least, no genetic tests are necessary...
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