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Multi-citizenship is a very strange concept anyway. Sure you can check the boxes and countries A and B consider you a citizen, but it's bizarre to me that one nation would let you swear loyalty to another without revoking your citizenship. The naturalization oath of allegiance, at least the American one, is very explicit about conflicts of interest like that but we've just sort of chosen not to enforce those parts of it.



Citizenship is a very strange concept to me. The fact of a person being born in a specific geographic location giving the surrounding nation-state the right to claim some sort of perpetual jurisdiction over that person to the exclusion of all other nation-states seems, upon reflection, quite bizarre.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe most Western democracies freely allow people to renounce their citizenship.


Not if it will result in you becoming stateless.




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