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To be honest I've never known anyone IRL who described themselves this way.
If IRL is suppose to stand for Irish, I have to agree with you, because most Irish-Americans just drop the American part completely! As in, kiss me because I'm Irish!
If IRL is suppose to stand for Irish, I have to agree with you, because most Irish-Americans just drop the American part completely! As in, kiss me because I'm Irish!
I can't be bother with the other 32,000,000 results for Irish American
Heh. In Real Life.
I do think that the best use for the "hyphen" is if you are describing groups like this though. For example; instead of saying "Irish", which would lead you to believe it was for/about folks in Ireland, "Irish American" describes the local.
I figured I would ask since so many of the posters on here use the term African-American, Asian-American etc.. In my opinion if you are not originally from Africa or Asia, or Latin America then shut up! How ridiculous would be if all non minorities started calling themselves Russian-Americans or Irish-American or in my case a Irish-English American. Point being either your an American and just an American or you have a serious identity problem. These terms continue to seperate us by our skin color, race or national origin. I think most people would agree that there is far to much of that going on without adding the hyphenated-American crap to it. Just one "Americans" opinion though.
Good points. Now if we can just solve the designations of "black" and "white" that started so long ago and persist today.
anyone who uses a hyphen in their name is odd to me. I have some friends on facebook who get married, and hyphenate their name rather than change it. then they have kids with idiotic names, like jayden jacob-williams. kid names today are ridiculous enough without the torture of a hyphen.
anyone who uses a hyphen in their name is odd to me. I have some friends on facebook who get married, and hyphenate their name rather than change it. then they have kids with idiotic names, like jayden jacob-williams. kid names today are ridiculous enough without the torture of a hyphen.
Good points. Now if we can just solve the designations of "black" and "white" that started so long ago and persist today.
Tell you what! Lets get the marriage rate between Black Americans and White Americans up to about 50% and as a result you'd have so many kids that are a combination of both that people just stopped giving a damn?
Right. My goal in life is to make sure every make, model, and color feels accepted.
No thanks. My advice to those American's is get off your ass and contribute to society in a meaningful way. That's how it works here in America. I refuse to be the Coddler of Feelings.
Tell that to my father and uncles, five who fought in WWII while the German POWs they were guarding were being treated better than they were. Tell that to my uncle (1st Lt, Tuskegee Airman) who was killed in action at 20.
I refuse to deal with the bullshyt espoused by right-wing bigots who have no clue about American history. Coddle that.
As these two philosophically different Presidents point out, a hyphenated American is just another means of expressing anti-Americanism.
Got to love the hypocritical statements of Presidents who allowed segregation to continue unabated in the military and throughout society in general. Nothing more anti-American and unAmerican than Jim Crow..........
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