Correctly, a person who has dual citizenship, or is a recent landed immigrant, uses the term Irish-American, or African-american. A person who was born in the US, whose parents were born in the US and whose grandparents were probably born in the US, should be called AMERICAN. My grandparents were born in the Ukraine and moved here as newlyweds. My parents were born here. I am technically, and correctly, an American, not a Ukrainian-american. Don't you think that some of this hyphenated "trippin'" is just for getting noticed? I am asking because I have a couple of cousins who call themselves "Ukrainian-Americans" and it is so ridiculous as they can't speak any language other than English and have no ties to any other country than the US!!
2007-01-24
11:14:29
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Wifeforlife
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