Who do YOU consider Americans?

Question

i don't want to hear what you guys thing is a "politically correct" answer. i want to know, who do you guys feel like has the right to call themselves americans?

is your criteria simply someone who is born here? or maybe someone who is a "white" person? or maybe only whites whose lineage is for england? do you simply need to have a certain complexion, hair texture, eye color?

when things are going good, i hear many people saying, it's all love, we're all american's, etc...
but when tragedy strikes, i start to hear alot of "go back to your own country...", even if you are born here...

so i wonder, who are the people that are allowed to feel like they are americans?... during the good times and the bad...

Answer 1

In my opinion, I consider someone an AMERICAN if they have only 1 citizen ship. If someone has a dual, and it's not for business reasons, and America is the second citizenship then they are NOT American.

If someone follows OUR laws and OUR ways of life without throwing their country in our faces they are American... however if they are constantly complaining about America and if they feel America is unjust, then they are NOT American and should get back on the boat and sail back to where they came from and go whine over there. Those are the ones that should "go back to their own country".

People who are PROUD to be American are American.

Answer 2

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. (The precise definition of the term is the subject of the Native American name controversy.)

According to current scientific knowledge, human beings did not evolve in North or South America but instead arrived by sea or by a land bridge that formerly connected North America with Asia. Most (if not all) of those indigenous peoples descended from peoples living in Siberia. They entered North America by at least 12,000 years ago and diversified into hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes.

Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. In some regions they created large sedentary chiefdom polities, and had advanced state level societies with monumental architecture and large-scale, organized cities. Scholars' estimates of the total population of the Americas before European contact vary enormously, from a low of 10 million to a high of 112 million. Whatever the figure, scholars generally agree that most of the indigenous population resided in Mesoamerica and South America, while about 10 percent resided in North America.

Smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, malaria, and other epidemics swept in after European contact, killing a large portion of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, causing one of the greater calamities in human history. In North America alone, at least 93 waves of epidemic disease swept through native populations between first contact and the early 20th century. Another reason for the dramatic decline of the Native American population was the treatment of the native population by European settlers, as well as continuing wars, either with Europeans or between indigenous communities. More recently, collective mobilization among indigenous peoples in the Americas has required the incorporation of closely-knit local communities in to a broader national and international framework of political action.

Answer 3

I would consider a person an American if he or she is trying to restore this nation to what it once was, and should become again.

I think a real American is a person who works to restore Constitutional government. A real American wants government limited to it's specific powers. A real American demands his or her rights as defined in the Bill of Rights.

We want a return to honest money. That means a gold-backed dollar that doesn't inflate. We want to see an end to un-declared wars around the globe. We want to beware of foreign entanglements.

We do not want our government involved in the affairs of other governments, or making secret deals. We want maximum contact between the American people and people from every other nations.

We want to see our government respect life. That means an end to abortion. And we want to see an end to government advocacy of homosexuality.

Any individual who espouses those causes is a real American in my book.

Answer 4

anyone born in between Tierra Del Fuego and Ellsmere Island.