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In addition to being United States nationals, people born in Guam are both citizens of the United States and citizens of Guam. Citizenship is the relationship between the government and the governed, the rights and obligations that each owes the other, once one has become a member of a nation.
Birthright citizenship. In addition to the 50 states and Washington, DC, the United States of America includes 14 undisputed territories, the following five of which are inhabited: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Indigenous people of Guam are known as the Chamorro people, and are the largest ethnic group in Guam. This group is categorised as a minority group in the United States territory. The 2021 mean age in the territory of Guam was 31.4 years. Guam is the largest and most populated of the territories in the Mariana Islands.
The Chamorro people (/ tʃ ɑː ˈ m ɔːr oʊ, tʃ ə-/; also CHamoru) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
Aug 24, 2018 · 24 Aug 2018. Many people on Guam, and in other US territories, say they are treated as second-class citizens. They can’t vote for the president and the one representative each territory is...
The population represents the Guamanians, who account for only half of Guam residents, Hawaiians, Filipinos, and North Americans. The majority of North Americans are either U.S. military personnel or support staff. As residents of a U.S. territory, Guamanians on the island are U.S. citizens with a U.S. passport.
The US has 16 territories outside the 50 states, with five permanently inhabited: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Citizenship and voting rights vary among these territories.
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