Is there a country where national identity isn't connected to "race", ancestry and religion ? (live, summer)
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The only people in the US grouped with Latinos and Blacks are Latinos and Blacks. However, Latinos and Blacks are still considered as American as anyone else. To be an American, all you really need is citizenship. No one says someone is not a real American based on your race or national origin. If you believe in socialism some may say that but that's about it and even then, most people aren't saying it seriously (there are always a few knuckleheads that mean it).
whites, blacks, latinos are easily accepted as americans
indians, asians, arabs I find that there is a hesitation for them to be seen as "american", for example when an indian origin woman won miss america many were critical on twitter, Facebook and so on, even racist comments were thrown..... forward a year and now the new miss america is a latin girl and no one said anything.
compare celebrities for example
the indian actor from the third rock is american but everyone calls him the indian guy, yet no one would call frank muniz (the latin guy from malcom in the middle), the latino guy (he's an american kid), or nicole ritchie (who has puerto rican roots, no one says she's not american), or christina aguilera or cameron diaz or christina million, selena gomez they're americans.... yet an indian or an asian is still asian or indian sort of foreign.
and of course black people are also american, no one says oprah is not american for example.
I think Brazil is the number 1 example.
In USA they are always rambling about african-american this, hispanics that, native-american, etc...
And a person of northern european ancestry is still the default American, I don't think there's a default Brazilian.
whites, blacks, latinos are easily accepted as americans
indians, asians, arabs I find that there is a hesitation for them to be seen as "american", for example when an indian origin woman won miss america many were critical on twitter, Facebook and so on, even racist comments were thrown..... forward a year and now the new miss america is a latin girl and no one said anything.
compare celebrities for example
the indian actor from the third rock is american but everyone calls him the indian guy, yet no one would call frank muniz (the latin guy from malcom in the middle), the latino guy (he's an american kid), or nicole riches (who has puerto rican roots, no one says she's not american)
and of course black people are also american, no one says oprah is not american for example.
Tbh when I wen to the USA this summer the Indians made no attempt to assimilate into American culture.
I think Brazil is the number 1 example.
In USA they are always rambling about african-american this, hispanic that, native-american, etc...
Yes the black people always say how white ones are racist but they are always the first to bring it up classifying themselves african American. I would say they are just american, it doesn't exactly make a difference I mean I don't call myself White British. It's really daft..
Yes the black people always say how white ones are racist but they are always the first to bring it up classifying themselves african American. I would say they are just american, it doesn't exactly make a difference I mean I don't call myself White British. It's really daft..
I don't get it.
Do you know anything? Why do you talk about things you don't understand its nothing but ignorance and hear say you come up with...
African Americans are Americans from Africa its simple.
Should the Europeans in America stop pin pointing where their ancestors are from?
How the **** is proclaiming that one originates from Africa "racist"
i dont think that national or individual identity come from any of those mentioned items. it comes from what we do our actions.
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