Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, etc...? What nationalities are just called Americans, I mean where do just Americans hail from originally? Is it a W.A.S.P. (white anglo-saxon, protestant-basically British) thing?
And finally, isn't it discriminating ? Why should an Irish, for instance, family who has been in the US since 1700 be called Irish-American?
I've never heard the term English-American, Dutch-American or French-American. How comes? Are these nationalities more accepted in the US of A?
I'm really puzzled by this! I see that Americans are so patriotic and just wondered why some people who live there, and have done so for generations, are not accepted as fully American, but they need an add-on prefix.
Thanks!
2007-06-15
02:04:44
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