Dogboy, what if you're born someplace and then you move to another place? Like me, I'm from Ukraine but now I live in USA. Am I a Ukrainian living in the USA? I am a little confused by what you mean. Maybe I do not fully understand. Are you saying where you're born is your nationality? I don't get it.

My friends and I that are from countries near Russia(Moldova, Ukraine(me), Kazakhstan, Lithuania) just say we're Russian. Because some people have never heard of Kazakhstan or Moldova(adleast where we live) so we say that just to make it less complicated.