Are americans english?

Question

Since the English came to "America" then Americans aren't "American", there British right? And where did the accent go?

Answer 1

Not even the the British have the same accent that they had 230 years ago. Some pockets of people of English origins in the U.S. were studied enthusiastically a few decades ago by linguists when they were found tucked away here and there. They had maintained an older, unchanged form of English spoken language. Language, especially spoken language, is organic. It grows and changes constantly like the currents in the ocean. Most of the people in the United States did not come from Great Briton. We came here from Germany and Ireland and Italy and from every nation and tribe in the world. Our "Yank" English accent is a blend of all the different spoken languages that we brought to this cultural melting pot.

Answer 2

An American is an American. You would have to find a person who is English down through the bloodline all the way from when the first settlers arrived on American soil. It wasn't only the English to migrate to America. There were also French, Spanish, Haitians, Swedes, Germans, Irish, Africans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc.
Yep, Americans are mostly mutts.
If you are English and your partner is English and you move to America, you are still English. If you have a child on American soil, your child, by legal status would be either English or American. If your child marries someone who is American (see list above) on American soil and they produce a child, then that child is American. Their passport is American and their bloodline is American. Keeping in mind that being an American is being a mix of different heredities.

Answer 3

Boy, you need an education. The British settled parts of America, the French settled parts, the Russians were in (and owed) Alaska, the Spanish, then Mexicans had most of the southwest. Texas had a war to break from the Spanish, and became a free independent nation for a while. Puerto Rico was a colony of Spain. Hawaii was an independent nation.

All these land masses eventually, by vote, war, etc., became part of the USA, the citizens thereof have come from every part of the world, speak every language and display cultures both ancient and modern from all around the globe. It is a country unlike any other, for better or worse, and all the CITIZENS are AMERICANS.

Answer 4

Wow, Julliard, either you are the winner of the November Dummy of the Month, or you simply ain't gotta clue.

Didn't the Spanish, and the French also come to the American Colonies? Didn't some Chinese immigrants get here too, albeit, the west coast, and later??

**And by the way, my people were here, mostly in what is now called 'Mississippi', long before the White man floated up to the Virginia or the Massachusetts coastline. I am 1/4 Choctaw Indian, 1/16 Cherokee Indian, and the rest Scotch. Wanna fight?
LOL
**And, I don't know whether you've noticed or not, but there are some fine folk here, from Africa, not England or Europe.

You are now dubbed the November Dummy.

Answer 5

The country America was basically made up of British nationals but after Americans won their independence from Britain, they created a new nation called the "United States of America" and its nationals called "Americans" so now they are Americans NOT British.

My ancestors came to Peru from Spain but now I am a Peruvian not a Spaniard. Get it?

Answer 6

No I am not English...I am an American. SOME Americans trace their heritage back to the English...but not all of them do. Aside from nationality, we made the conscious decision to split from the English rule a long time ago.

Answer 7

They are Americans

Answer 8

My family has been over seven generations in the United States. The house in which I will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow has been in my family since before the Revolutionary War. My relatives came over on the Mayflower. Beyond Native Americans, we are about as American as you can get.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Americans are about 15% English, 15% German, 10% Irish, 10% African and 50% Italian, Korean, Etc.