What do you have against hypenated citizens?

Question

for example....

italian-american
mexican-american
african-american
etc.

Answer 1

nothing against the person,just the label. you are either an American or not. most Americans are mutts and to hyphenate the origins would be a waste. i can put 4 different origins before the American one,but i'm simply American. most hyphenated people have not been to the country and were not born there.

Answer 2

I will answer that with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt..


...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country....

Answer 3

I don't use it. I'm not 100 percent like say Italian,Irish heritage or what have you. But if someone wants to,that's their thing.

Answer 4

are you a follower of the Richard Schweder theory??

Answer 5

there's nothing bad about it. its just such a mouth full. sometimes its just easier to not be so politically correct