It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.