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Perhaps this has been discussed before. Do you believe Americans should be considered an ethnic group in their own right, not unlike British, French, Canadians, Germans, Israelis, Japanese, etc? The "traditional" American is white, but African Americans and Indians (Native Americans) have been here forever and I have no problem accepting them. I ask this question because an Iranian friend of mine told me American is NOT an ethnicity. What do you think?
Not any more. Our enemies have succeeded in destroying 'The American People'. 'American' simply (and barely) now denotes nationality.
There are some true Americans left, but fewer every day. Through immigration, 'Our' Government has succeeded in, as others have said, electing a new People.
Not any more. Our enemies have succeeded in destroying 'The American People'. 'American' simply (and barely) now denotes nationality.
There are some true Americans left, but fewer every day. Through immigration, 'Our' Government has succeeded in, as others have said, electing a new People.
What, pray tell, is a "true American"?
By the same token, what person who was born in this country is a "false American"?
I don't think we've been around long enough to really be considered a nationality.
Really? Consider this:
1. The British Empire wasn't even really an empire until after the American Revolution. Ireland, India, Australia, and South Africa had nothing to do with the British until much later.
2. Millions of Americans have had family in this land long enough that they don't know their own heritage.
3. American English is more than distinct from British English, unlike the English of Australia which was a more recent colony. I don't consider Australia to have its own culture (except for that of the aborigines) because of its Britishness. Also, American English has several very different dialects.
4. What we now call the United States started as a group of many different territories which were united. The USA as a nation may be relatively young, but remember Columbus landed almost 300 years before the Revolution. Immigrants to all different parts of this land assimilated to the homegrown culture of the colonists and their descendants.
I believe the groups you cite as comparison reflect nationality rather than ethnicity. Aside from Native Americans our nation has no original ethnic base.
I don't think we've been around long enough to really be considered a nationality.
True...
Although the true "Native" Americans (who are left) have been around long.
Now we're the "melting pot."
Our national pride is in individualism, not so much bagpipes or salsa.
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