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The space doesn't allow for the full title I wanted. But essentially do you (your forefathers) have had to have played a role in the nations key formative events. I placed 1865 as the cut off as the CW is the definitive event in US history. I mean to truly be from the US does the likes of Lexington and Concord have to mean something to you?
Essentially, unless you have connections to such epic events are you not less American than those who shaped the nation. It follows that 'real Americans' (not hyphened) are inevitably rooted in Western Europe and the AA population.
Just a thought exercise. The US is becoming too far detatched from what made it 'America'.
The space doesn't allow for the full title I wanted. But essentially do you (your forefathers) have had to have played a role in the nations key formative events. I placed 1865 as the cut off as the CW is the definitive event in US history. I mean to truly be from the US does the likes of Lexington and Concord have to mean something to you?
No.
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Originally Posted by waffleiron1968
Essentially, unless you have connections to such epic events are you not less American than those who shaped the nation. It follows that 'real Americans' (not hyphened) are inevitably rooted in Western Europe and the AA population.
No.
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Originally Posted by waffleiron1968
Just a thought exercise. The US is becoming too far detatched from what made it 'America'.
The US is becoming too far detatched from what made it 'America'.
Immigrants made America, in case you've forgotten.
I know a woman who just became an American citizen a few months ago. Some of my ancestors came to the US in the 1700s. She and I are both 100% American citizens, no difference between us at all.
Immigrants made America, in case you've forgotten.
I know a woman who just became an American citizen a few months ago. Some of my ancestors came to the US in the 1700s. She and I are both 100% American citizens, no difference between us at all.
A people united neither by heritage or shared experience have very weak bonds. No?
United by what heritage? I wouldn't use early American history as a benchmark of unity when by historical accounts it was anything but unified. Ultimately resulting a brutal Civil War.
United by what heritage? I wouldn't use early American history as a benchmark of unity when by historical accounts it was anything but unified. Ultimately resulting a brutal Civil War.
The CW was a complex affair rooted ultimately in the slavery issue. However the early US and the citizenry d8d share (to a greater degree than today) cultural commonality and a shared experience. To deny that is rather silly.
Seriously?? Do you know nothing about American history?
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