It does not seem to me that there is any sort of honest American nationalism any more. Everyone, it seems to me, thinks of them selves as some sub-faction withing the nation, but not as a member of the nation as a whole.
Examples:
Hispanic immigrants do not think of themselves as Americans, with 99% of them, they always say they are mexican, not American, even if their family has been here or generations.
Texans will refer to themselves and being Texans, even if you meet one outside of the US! New Yorkers will tell you they are from NY, not the USA. If you travel, ask and see what people say!
I personally live in California, and I feel that I have nothing more in common with someone from Louisiana than I do with someone from Australia. Isn't this how everyone feels?
I think most people in the US are focused within, and identify with their own race, region, personal interest or other sub-grouping than with being an "American".
Thougts?
2007-01-17 08:10:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
You're right. It's our culture. We think of ourselves as New Yorkers or Italians, not as Americans. This is because unlike Europeans and other parts of the world we live in a melting pot culture. You remember 8th grade social studies when they talked about the melting pot in the early 20th Century when poor folks from Europe came to this country. Or in the 19th Century when the Chinese came over and built the Union Pacific Railroad. It's odd to live in a melting pot culture, yet it's where I live, so I guess it's okay.
2007-01-17 08:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the above also constitutes being an American. When an event of national importance happens is when you'll see us all step beyond our regional differences and unite as one. Do ya really need a more telling example of that than our national reaction to 9/11?
H e l l, even people in France said "We're all Americans on this dreadful day!"
2007-01-17 08:24:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
On one aspect, it truly is an oxymoron. On yet another it truly is love that twisted. Now if there in no way became any, and continually became a lie, then it truly is the first one. yet love can start up off and bypass incorrect, become fake or faked. lengthy married couples can discover themselves in a foul position of no longer loving the fellow yet feeling they ought to or they ought to attempt this, and they're going to then fake this. after all, it truly is really scary to debate it, what is going to ensue? What might want to the different man or woman imagine or SAY? we many times do not listen even as the challenge is emotional, we are able to listen our own 'tape' on it, our own weak point can come to the most well liked part.
2016-11-24 23:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hispanics are not all Mexican, dummy. I consider myself Argentine American. Still American but I know where I came from. Thats pride, not disrespect.
2007-01-17 08:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans are heve been victimized by big bird and sesame street -- which one of these things is not like the other, which one of these things just don't belong... dat dat da dat ........
Why don't we sue PBS and the producers?
On a serious note, why is it that all us immigrants can't get along?
2007-01-17 08:23:16 · answer #5 · answered by LadyB!™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am american, born and raised, and made. that is my only identity.
2007-01-17 08:44:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋