Do the Americans know that their first President was English?

Answer 1

Do the English know that we dont care?

Answer 2

Hi!

After reading some of the ignorant and abusive answers, aimed at Britain, from Americans, i had to put a few things correct!!

The president's and the people of America, are of British decent!

The word 'American', is just a word, its not like the Chinese or African or Indian, the people of America are still mainly European!

They might state that they are: 'all proud Americans' but the blood flowing through their veins, is mainly of British decent!

They cannot change that!!!

They also speak 'English', no getting out of that also!!!

They even kept the 'original' red, white and blue colours of the British flag!

The stars and stripes is a copy of the British India company's flag, which predates the U.S version by quite some time!

The 13 stripes on the American flag, represents the 13 British Empire Colonies!!


I would also like to say, that America is 'not' the only country, were you can go to be free, Britain is the original free democracy, 'the' democracy that the USA followed!

Also, America and Americans are 'the' most racist human beings on this planet!

If you don't belong to America, they believe, you are a 'second class' citizen of this world!

Its all 'us' and 'them' ... a very secular society!!

Calling the British Empire and England, like they do, you would have thought, that they would be a lot better than those of the past, but unfortunately, Americans are very ignorant people and they are as bad as the British upper class, of the Empire days.

'We just want to be free, to live 'our' way', the type of statement you hear from Americans.

When in reality, America has invaded quite a few countries itself, imposing its views and ways on those inhabitants of these countries!

How different is that, from what the British did, in the Empire days??

Its when you are at the top and you become very ignorant and arrogant!!!



Washington and Lincoln, both their family names stem from the towns/cities of the same name, in England!

Answer 3

More importantly perhaps, do the Americans know that their current president was born an idiot?

Even if they do, it didn't stop them from giving him the job, did it?

By the same token however, take a look at what we the British have done in respect of appointing leaders over the past 15 years or so!

Not exactly what you might call awe inspiring leadership was it?

Even the present PM is like a kid who's been waiting for his brother to grow up, so that he could have a go at wearing his big brothers Action Man Outfit.

Answer 4

He certainly was not English. You might make a case for him being British rather than English, but he himself would have considered himself a Virginian. As to the other git who thinks there were 13 presidents before George Washington, there were several Presidents of the Continental Congress and several more "Presidents of the Assembly" under the Articles of Confederation, but George Washington was the first "President of the United States."

Answer 5

Yes. It was permitted because a Citizen of the United States was allowed to serve as President at the time the Constitution was adopted. We had lived almost ten years under the Articles of Confederation, prior to adoption of our current Constitution. That clause in Article II would have covered every person born in the U.S. before 1787, who had reached the age of 35 and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Answer 6

What is your point? Yes, most do know, though I would bet that some do not. We are aware of our heritage and where our ancestors come from.

Do you realize that in the end George Washington and the other founding fathers of the U.S. made a conscious decision to break from England and in some ways that makes them more American than we are today.

Answer 7

Did you know that the majority of immigrants living in America were English as there were no Americans prior to the Revolution.

Answer 8

English is a race and a language, not a nationality. I am Welsh and born in England but am British. Abraham Lincoln was Welsh, but born in the USA and therefore an American.

Not everyone in America c1776 was of English descent. Lots were Irish, Scottish and Welsh and a bunch of everyone else from around Europe. Hard to believe, but true. How else did the Poles fight alongside the Continental Army? And also the French, who later settled in such as New Orleans?

History is a foreign place - don't go there! Not without a passport anyway.

I expect the Americans do. It was one of the Englishmen who came over and set up the very first English Settlement - name of James Town in c1606.

The townsfolk of James Town created their 'Parliament' [committee] within 30 days of their arrival. Forget everything else, we've got to sort out the democracy thing first. And, they had their elections and yes they elected a president of the council, who in theory was indeed the very first 'president' in America but not of the USA.


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Answer 9

Probably, but they try to bury it fairly often!

Theres a bit of resentment in the usa that they are ethnically, culturally, linguistically and historically an offshoot of Britain.

Basically the USA was settled, developed and founded by people of British origin who became traitors, fighting their own people and siding with the French...who incidentally were those most responsible for American independence!

Answer 10

He might have been technically English because he was born when America was a Britishcoloniy. However, the country has already ceded from the British rule and the historical accident of his being a born English is irrelevant.Mr. Jinnah was a born Indian and so were many other earlier office bearers. But the area had already ceded from India and their being of Indian origin was irrelevant. fSo was the ,shall I say unfortunate fact of Washington being a born British subject.

Answer 11

Sure we do...

He and about everyone else was "previously" English.

By the time he became President, he was an American having Declared Independence from the British crown; remember?




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