Citizenship is the condition received by those individuals who are born in a certain territory, descended from other natives of this or are responsible for processing their documents to be recognized as part of that country, so that their are guaranteed rights political, civil and social, in addition to earning a series of responsibilities towards the host State.
It can also be said that citizenship is the set of people (called citizens), who make up a certain territory. This notion is one of the most important for the construction of the societies that make up the world, since it creates barriers to maintain one's culture and customs, but without completely eliminating the exchange of ideas.
The concept of citizenship is linked to that of the city, especially the Greek "polis", because, for the times of classical antiquity, cities were seen as the most important political units of all. Over time, this evolved into the "State." This, according to the laws of each country, can be divided into different categories, taking into account the nature of the same, being thus: active, passive, critical, environmentalist, cosmopolitan, differentiated, economic, global, intercultural, local citizenship, multicultural, parity and multiple.
Active citizenship is that held by individuals who are committed to all the causes of the State to which they belong.
In this way, they gather, on a regular basis, almost all the aforementioned citizenships, whether they have these social reasons or not.
Likewise, active citizens can be those who still retain their original nationality, still reside in their country of birth, or simply meet the necessary legal status to be considered part of the territory. Thus, they have a voice and vote in various political and social matters.
