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There really is no need for the continued separation of country of origin when you are a naturally-born American Citizen. However, since I don't see a move to stop using titles such as this, I think it's time white people started using the hyphenated European-American.
Please use European-American for all references pertaining to white people.
Hyphenated Americans are anti-American.
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the Knights of Columbus, New York City, October 12 1915.
There really is no need for the continued separation of country of origin when you are a naturally-born American Citizen. However, since I don't see a move to stop using titles such as this, I think it's time white people started using the hyphenated European-American.
Please use European-American for all references pertaining to white people.
Not all white people have European origin. We already have nonsense called "African-American" which for some reason discriminates against such Africans as Egyptians like all of Africa was Black.
I am an American with ancestors who are German born and raised with some from Sweden, Poland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maine, Massachusetts and Indiana with the other 1/2 of my ancestors being Cherokee. So I should say I am a Europeon -Swedish - Polish - American - Indian? Seriously? I think not, I'll stick to American.
There really is no need for the continued separation of country of origin when you are a naturally-born American Citizen. However, since I don't see a move to stop using titles such as this, I think it's time white people started using the hyphenated European-American.
Please use European-American for all references pertaining to white people.
I do not live my life obessed with race or skin color
mine or some one else
I am an american. period
I do not suffer from white guilt
so call yourself what ever you want but leave me out of it!
true, it's misleading also because there are Turks and black people in Europe. The Sami people of Scandinavia are not white and also native to europe.
Not true...they are considered Caucasoid by bone structure but there have mixed lineage. An Arab is not the same as my ancestors.
Caucasoid bone structure?! Do you mean the size of bones? Judging from the exterior there must also be a difference in the bone structure of the Dutch and Spaniards, but both are considered Europeans
In my view those pseudo-biological differences are rather weird to put it mildly. After all, humanity is one huge continuum, there are no clear lines between various humans.
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Do you mean the size of bones? Judging from the exterior there must also be a difference in the bone structure of the Dutch and Spaniards, but both are considered Europeans 
