If you were born in this country, why can you not just simply consider and call yourself an American, why have the prefix? Latin-American, African-American, Asian-American, German-American, and so on. I am not saying to not be proud of your roots, by all means, celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the Chinese New Year, St. Patty's Day and all the others that I forgot. But why can you not just be an American? Our ancestors moved here to become Americans and to start new lives, hoping for better lives than what they were living in where ever it is they immigrated from. As for the African-Americans, granted your ancestors did not come to America on their own free will...but they stayed in America of their own free will, to become Americans.
Am I suppose to say (so that I am politically correct) that I am an Irish-German-Scottish-Welsh-French-Native American? I am proud to be an American, so therefore; I am an American. Why use the prefixes?
2006-06-27
12:32:04
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