why do white people think they are native american?

Question

why do so many white people think they are native american if there great great whatever is native american? PLEASE no racism stuff this is geared at white people complaining about how usa treats native americans. oh fyi I happen to have a full blooded grandfather who is native american, black foot. the other 90% is irish.

Answer 1

Because there is a tradition that having even one drop of "minority" blood in your veins, one ancestor in your heritage who can claim minority status, makes you at least a partial member of that group. True you don't look like that person, you haven't lived like that person, you haven't faced the same struggles they have... but they are a part of you, and therefore you have a part in their culture. It may be a very small part, but it is there none the less.
So it is natural that people would want to identify with anything interesting or rare in their family history, because it adds something new and interesting to their personal identity.

Answer 2

I guess it goes along the same route as those who have a black parental unit and a white parental unit are automatically considered black. Who the hell knows and I can't wait for the day that we are all a lovely shade of beige!

I have full Cree realtives and half Cree relatives and half Japanese relatives and half purple relatives - it's ALL relative

Many of the answers didn't understand the question or make snide remarks about how we are all or none of us Native (having been born here).

People the question asked was why do people with an Aboriginal ancestor (great grandmother for example) consider themselves to be Aboriginal when all other ancestors are not.

Simple question, d'uh.

Answer 3

There are no "Native Americans". The supposed natives crossed the Bering land bridge thousands of years ago. Therefore, nobody is a "Native American". Everyone migrated to this land from some other part of the world at some point in time.

When you say that white people think themselves to be natives of this country, it's because they have lived here for many generations.

Answer 4

South America and North America are big continents and claiming rights as a Native American, when the people who do it have not given much more thought to it, anymore then a new school would for their local teams icon.
And, that just strains the idea a little much in my opinion.

The reference that, "I was born in the United States of America", already strains the condition of where I was born because the hospital was in a city in one of the states which had joined the Government that some of its own children find needs change.

Most of who I read about who appear to be grown but not mature people, because they are playing with the adult world like a child with a new toy.

An immature child too, like some shrubbery I read about who has a record of records saying one thing and meaning nothing because the records don't match the deeds.

While the common sense based themes of the U. S. A. government gives us some rudimentary gifts we don't all find them available when we go exploring for work and have to create a lifestyle to fill the empty time.

While the agreement on basic freedoms is written down for us to determine our own paths in life, it is the fact little room is left on the continent to make paths.

No room, no growth. We all find a shelter, a corner, a niche, and wait for the bus.
Or gather wealth and buy a house, buy an SUV, and raise a family.
While struggling youth have to do it all over again with new streams of new combinations of old nationalities making new people from the combination and the youth are continuously in the middle of whose rights are what.

Complaining images on street corners, alleys, old camp grounds and sitting on flag poles, or viewed on TV only distracts the viewers long enough, including me, to realize where they got started.

Remember the street we all gathered? Remember how the old ways were? Remember who I honor first: my parents, grand parents, great grand parents, and on, and on, and on...

Remember how I told her I loved her? Then walked away to find work that day! Only to come back and find she grew impatient and joined another way.
She Married the chief of some new tribe or a bud from around the corner, when she already had her ring around my finger which she just tossed away.

WHY?! WHY?! Why?! Don't ask me because she didn't have a better answer then! Then she blamed me for leaving her alone, aha aha ah huh, and I haven't seen her since.

I am looking for Significant Other these days, and yet, so far the reasons, in my heart beats, of my sense hasn't found one that doesn't already carry the words, "WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! Why?!" written across her forehead.

Doesn't matter where I live I still have to put up with nationality of others who, LIKE ME, no longer are of any nationality Pure Blood, and if they say they are; they are, "Crying in the Wind".

Answer 5

In one sense there are no native Americans. None. Everyone who came to North, Central or South America came from somewhere else.

In another sense anyone who was born here, thus had his or her nativity here, is a native American.

Answer 6

Most americans probaly do it for all the benifits that Native Americans get, like college scholarships. But personally I think it's complete rubbish of us Americans to do that to Native Americans.

Answer 7

Your question makes no sense. White people are not native american. Plus white people do not discriminate native americans.

Answer 8

umm. I've never heard any white people say they think they are native american. But i guess youv'e meet some pretty stupid people.

Answer 9

white people dont think there native american.. where did you get this???

Answer 10

Why do americans believe that they are a nation?