All americans look at your past what country did you ansesters come from.?

Question

If you were born in america, and your parents were born in america and your grand parents were born in america but your great grand parents were from a foreign country say germany, swedian, poland, England, then would that not make all or most Americans Immigrant.? Unless Your Ansestry was American Indians.

Answer 1

Duh, we are known as a country of immigrants? Are you trying to somehow justify people crossing our borders illegally and/or remaining in our country after their visas expire illegally? Wise up sir, this is 2007 not the early 1900s.

Answer 2

I have followed my family tree all the way back to 1710. That is the earliest my family name shows up in this country that I am aware of. True we are all immigrants at one time. However that was then and this is now. The world is a much different place and the way people make a living and survive has changed drastically. The only problem I have with illegal immigrants is how they are effecting the average working wage. At the rate the average wage is decreasing most Americans will be under the poverty level in just a few short years.
That is all the Bush administration wants. He doesn't care about the Mexican Immigrants. He only cares about saving big businesses a lot of money on labor.
And that is my only real gripe about illegal immigrants.

Answer 3

Yes all Americans' ancestors were immigrants, excluding native Americans if you don't take into account that even their ancestors immigrated to the Americas by the Bering strait.Furthermore, illegal immigration has happened all throughout the history of the United States just not in the current amounts. Also, many colonist when they came to the colonies ended up becoming squatter. Squatting is the act of occupying an unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use; basically being on the land ILLEGALLY. Squatters were a fundamental part of the foundation of the U.S. , they explored the frontier.
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Answer 4

My ancestors came from Germany and Ireland, and some of them were already here because they were the first "Americans". But I was born in this country. I am not an immigrant no matter what any one says... I go to work every day, I pay my taxes, I follow the laws set forth by this so called government. I do this country no harm or foul. I AM AN AMERICAN!!!!!! Deal with it.

Answer 5

It's so naive when people say this. Are you advocating going back 100 years to the time of Jim Crow? No unionized work? Non-existant child labor laws? Our ancestors came here legally, and that is the big difference. They followed the letter of the law, worked long, hard hours at back-breaking jobs (no eight hour day jobs then and no minimum wage). They adopted the culture, learned English, placed an importance on family values and education and they assimilated into mainstream society. It's amazing to me how everybody loves to bash this country while so many are willing to risk everything to come here - sometimes even those who trash our country. While probably few people are really against legal immigration, no one wants someone just hopping over their fence, coming into their yard and taking the things they worked hard for.

Answer 6

ALL IN AMERICA ARE IMMIGRANTS!!!! The cradle of civilization is somewhere around Mesopotamia. Those we call Indigenous Peoples got here millions of years AFTER the continents separated.

Some came 500 years ago; some 900 years ago; others 12,000.

Imagine it had been 1,200 instead of 12,000. In addition to the fact that most of us are of mixed blood anyway, this would add that we've been here almost fifty percent as long as they had. Then it'd be 75%. And we'll be more intermixed than ever. This whole argument is silly.

My link below is an eloquent article by a proud Comanche who believes the tribes won, not lost. Many echo his sentiment. I'm part Cherokee (who isn't?) and as proud of that as of any of my Hienz 57 blood.

And the real argument has nothing whatever to do with the land under our feet. It's more akin to being admitted into a University. Should I be admitted to Cambridge just because my ancestors are from there?

The world changed little for millions of years. Then – KA-BOOM! – the renaissance and the industrial revolution changed everything.

Those of us who are really stuck in the middle in this immigration debate are the ones who see our place in the world slipping fast because of low average education rates and too few scientists and engineers.

The fact is that one 12 year-old girl on a tractor (the size of a house) can outperform about a thousand farmers with horses and plows. We have passed the era when an economy is built on strong backs. It will NEVER RETURN. Dexterity is quickly becoming obsolete. Nano-technology will pick our lettuce and berries within 10 or 20 years.

Japan has already begun, in earnest, the automation of its healthcare for the elderly. They’re skeptical even about bringing in Brazilians of Japanese descent because they don’t assimilate. And assimilation is among the most important assets benefiting modern economies.

Pandering to laborers is economic suicide.

Encouraging them to get a science or technology degree and then to be employed a few years before having kids is good economic medicine. Look at the richest ethnicities in the world: Japanese, Koreans, Jews, Germans, etc.

Martin Luther King said that keeping blacks uneducated had stifled economic growth in the south. Why? Because it provided a constant source of cheap labor that the north (and other countries) did not have. So the north had been forced to design and build more automated factories and farms.

We’re doing the same "cheap labor thing" now. But this time it’s affecting all areas of the U.S. economy. Either we fix it or we’re going down.



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Answer 7

At least if my great grand parents immigrated here from Europe they legaly went through imigration to become a US citizen. They did not smuggle across the border. They did not use stolen Social Security numbers to try to blend in. And most of all they spoke a foreign language but they quickly learned English to live in the United states. English is very common in Europe. They were able to learn English. Mexicans can too if they want to live in the US and get better jobs.

Answer 8

There is a pivotal point here that you are forgetting. We fought a war with Mexico in 1842, and guess what...We won. We, the Americans did not want to be apart of Mexico. We did not want to speak Spanish.

My ancestor, John Montfort came here in 1622. My mother's great grandmother was an American Indian. This country is the property of 4 groups...Anglos, Blacks, American Indians and legal immigrants who speak English. End of story.

Answer 9

My parents came from Brazil which they came legally obtaining a green card and being law biding citizens and later becoming American citizens .

in other words if you came to this country ILLEGALLY i think you need to get a green card the Legal way ...

and stop trying to make some of us who are AMERICANS or some immigrants who are LEGAL look like you who has been breaking OUR laws ...

In Mexico if Americans went there illegally Americans will be put in Prison for crossing the borders nothing for free , so why should you guys get it for free ?

Answer 10

Your right, all U.S. citizens are immigrants form somewhere, including the American Indian which came from Asia.
But if you look at most citizens in the U.S. they been here for couple hundred years and kinda think that by then we are just Americans.
The squash here now is not immigration, but illegal immigration.

Answer 11

My Ancestry is very easy, My fathers side is from the US, Native American, my mothers side I am Danish and Armenian. My Great grandfather was killed in the Armenian Genocide of 1913. I am not that much of an immigrant as much as a political refuge, and I am proud to be an Immigrant, but my family also came over legally, with permission and became citizens as soon as they could.