The concept of citizenship is complex, multidimensional, and can be understood at different levels. Citizenship can indeed be seen as a status—that of being a citizen. This status arises both from official recognition by the State and from the individual’s acceptance of the community’s codes, in other words, their duties, rights, and freedoms.

But citizenship is also an attitude, an ideal, or even a virtue for some—one that reflects a sense of commitment and a perceived and assumed individual responsibility toward the community, whether through decision-making (such as voting in an election) or through everyday behavior.