• if you were not born or raised somewhere.
• if none of your close relatives were born and raised in that place.
• if you have no, or only superficial, cultural connections to the place.
• if youve never been to the place.
• If you have no Connections to people living in the place.
• if you do not know the language, history or politics of the place.

It's funny, I don't really disagree with you at all. And yet every one of these applies to me, but...I actually have a valid passport from the other country in question. I could go there tomorrow if I wanted to. So uh, yeah, the list above isn't entirely comprehensive.