MAY 14, stand on guard (Canada): dual citizenship

a) Reprise of material posted on May 14 in previous years ...

2020: portraits of couples, introductory letter (photo folio)
2021: Panama palindrome, a cat, a hat (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, Swan Lake S.C. (live-photo collage)
2023: reminiscences, Mother's Day (photo-collage)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... a cat, a hat), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (May 14, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note: In the US recently, there has been a concerted effort to pin many of society's putative ills on immigrants. In Canada, on the other hand, the significant portion of citizens who hold two passports is honoured. Commonly, through training programs and other personal initiatives (e.g., marriage), the US is the second country involved.

As a feature left over from earlier times, when there were fewer global immigrants, the expression dual citizen, or even more curtly dual, is assumed by Canadians to imply, failing further specification, a person who holds citizenship in both the US and Canada.

The verb subdue, and its derivatives seem to derive from a different linguistic root.

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.