Why don't Americans like to be called an immigrant?

Question

Never forget where you came from.

I think Americans are living in a bubble. The outside world always describes America as the country of immigrants.
Whenever I mention American and immigration foreigners can't understand the fuss as they believe all 'Americans are immigrants'.

Answer 1

of course we don't forget where we came from - that's called ANCESTORS. but, myself, I am mixed with french,american indian,spanish,black and italian. I am an AMERICAN

Answer 2

Here's the definition of immigrant: A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.

If your grandparents or parent came from mexico, sweden or ghana or anywhere else, they are immigrants, but if you were born and raised in America, regardless of your ancestry, you are an American. I think you'll find this is true for every country, not just America. My ancestors were Dutch, English, American Indian, Saudi Arabian, and Peruvian. Are you suggesting that makes me an immigrant? I know all about these people, these cultures, my family history...but it doesn't make me an immigrant. Get a dictionary.

Answer 3

Because I am not an immigrant, I was born here, my family on both sides were born here going back over 500 years, and I also have some native american blood.

I am not an immigrant, nor is my family immigrant.

I am an American, and a citizen of the United States of America.

Answer 4

The problem with that statement is that the VAST majority of americans ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS. Of those that are, most came here to be americans.

Things are different today. Most immigrants today are violent criminals. Those that aren't come here to scam the welfare system. Few work and only a handful want to learn engligh, much less assimilate.

Americans are in the process of asserting their right not to have our country ruined by these people. You may disagree but I hope you like prison.....'cuz that's where you are going if you break our laws.

Answer 5

Because if someone was born here then they aren't an immigrant. Some people, like me for example, have Native American ancestry. I am 1/4 Sioux. So get off your high horse. Anyone who is born here in NOT an immigrant

Answer 6

Hmmm, I came from my mothers womb in a hospital near Long Branch NJ. I won't forget that! People can call me an immigrant if they want to but they can also call an ambulance beforehand just in case I'm in a bad mood at the time. I think Oldbiker should wear his helmet because his last fall must of injured his brain.

Answer 7

Never forget where you came from? How about always remembering who you are instead? Gees get a clue......ya our ancestors who took this place by storm were Immigrants but any of us born here after the fact.... we're Americans. Doesn't your birth certificate say US Citizen on it?

Answer 8

Well that's plumb silly ... to begin with, with all the mixed marriages, you could be a quarter this and a quarter that, or an eighth this and and eighth that ... so unless you want to call yourself an American of European descent, or Asian descent, or Eurasian descent, or whatever ... you can't really say "where you came from". And immigration laws were different in the days gone by anyway ... there was no unchecked invasion across our borders of illegal aliens in them there days ... if there had been, you can be damn sure that they would've been shot ... :(

Answer 9

Americans are migrates JUST LIKE THE AMERICAN INDIAN. The American Indian came from Asia and the "White man" came fro England. Americans are NOT immigrants unless you catorgorize all individuals as immigrants.

Answer 10

Well, I'm an American and I'm not an immigrant. So, no, I don't want to be called one. Yes, my ancestors were immigrants, but I am not. I have lived here my whole life.

Answer 11

all i am going to say is when my son was about 5-7 i would say come here immigrant and he would throw a fit and swear up and down that was a dirty word lol



"Immigrants in past centuries came here to become Americans, not to remain foreigners, much less to proclaim the rights of their homelands to reclaim American soil, as some of the Mexican activist groups have done.... Today, immigrant spokesmen promote grievances, not gratitude, much less patriotism.