Does anyone on here, who has a few years on them, think 1st generation Brits make great Americans?

Question

I am watching Anthony Hopkins and Craig Ferguson on tv and they remind me of my cousins, who came to America from the UK right before WW 1, and I swear those wild and crazy girls made better Americans than I do.

now before you get yourt shorts in a knot, I just meant they had more attitude than I do, maybe coming from another country toughens people up. My great aunt had people making nasty comments to her on a bus because of her English accent.

If you study world history at all you would realize before Europeans came to North America, Native American tribes were busy trying to wipe each other out. The Iroquois were famous for trying to wipe out other tribes. There was a tribe along the shore of Lake Erie called the :cat people who were wiped out in a tribal war over the results of a sporting event I believe in the 1400's or 1500's. , possibly earlier.

So I guess if someone kills a person from the same geographical area, it's okay but not when you're from another continent? Is that how you're logic works????

No wonder the USA has about 330 million people, they wete probably in a hurry to leave your mental micro cube. U pontificate about something you know nothing about

Answer 1

I have half a century plus some years, and I agree with you.
In my opinion - from observing people and history - the Brits
are just more informed, worldly, and able to see the big picture perhaps better than most Americans - insulated as we are in our own continent with two large oceans on either side.
We are all part of a world community these days. This has been evolving or developing in my life time after World War Two when America came out of its isolationism. Americans from the origination of the country have been predominantly displaced Brits. And I don't mean just the English. I like the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish as well. It's a good mix within America.
Africans made up ~ one quarter of the population of the original 13 colonies at the time of independence, so they deserve to be American more than many of us who came from Europe later. The Spanish speaking peoples are also welcome in my opinion if they do not overwhelm those of us who are still basically English speaking people.
[ One of my favorite books is Churchill's "History of the English Speaking Peoples."]
Yet what is an Englishman? He is a combination of Celtic, Roman, Angle and Saxon German, Danish, Norman French,
and other European lineages. We all share the same DNA
no matter what so called race we are. There is no pure British race. It is a cultural identity that suits America very well indeed.

Answer 2

~Actually, if they are first generation Brits, the don't make any kind of Americans, good, bad or indifferent. By definition, they are Brits. Duh. As to first generation Americans, wouldn't that depend on the individual as opposed to the former nationality? If you think otherwise, then getting yourself fitted for a sheet or neocon evangelist robes might be in order.

What, by the way, is a 'good American'? One who stands and cheers when John Wayne slaughters Indians? One who believes invading a free and independent nation is a good and just thing to do? One who believes that turning the world's air and water into toxic poisons is an alright way to protect the environment? One who thinks it's okay to steal the natural resources of the 'Third World' and to exploit their populations in sweatshops under conditions which would land one in prison if done at home? The Ugly American is alive and well, except as a viable and relevant teaching tool for the State Department and it is little wonder that most of the world applauded, loudly and gleefully or secretly and privately, when the Towers came tumbling down.

Thanks for the thumbs down. I wouldn't expect Dorian Grey to look in the mirror either.

Answer 3

I think that first generation Americans from any nation make better Americans than most of us born and raised here.

We have been raised here, enjoying all of the freedom, ability to vote, low taxes, etc. In this case, familiarity really does build contempt, therefore we have a real problem seeing just how great of a nation we have.

People who come here later, wealthy or poor, have an outsiders appreciation for the things we take for granted.

Answer 4

I took a class at UCLA that defined first generation differently than I do. So, I need to define it first.
My mom came over to this country from Ireland on a boat in the 1960s. She has American citizenship, but she is Irish. She will never view herself as a first generation immigrant. She said that title is reserved for a child she had born in the US, such as me. The professors at UCLA kept trying to tell me my mom was the 1st generation and I was 2nd. I said, "No. My mom never accepted fully being American. She was never part of any generation here. She spent half her life trying to see if it was financially feasible to return to Ireland.' My siblings and I are the only Americans...and if my mom heard me saying that she would get upset. I was always taught to say Irish-American.
As a first generation Irish-American, I tend to hang out with other transplants. (mostly Italian and British). I think we are great Americans. We are ambitious, proud of our country and our ethnicity, and contributing to the fruitfulness of the nation.
I think people with immigrant parents are taught to succeed, impress others, and improve their lives.

Answer 5

Yes. But we're the ones that grew to become them into the cash grubbing, lazy, egocentric, self headquartered, uncaring, shallow humans that they're once we made up our minds to "provide them the whole lot I did not have". We gave them "matters". What we did not provide them have been morals, humility, a piece ethic, courses in appreciate and an curiosity on this planet greater then their nearby mall. I requested my 17 yr ancient niece what she concept approximately the struggle and her reaction used to be "What struggle?" Had I replied to my Father like that approximately Viet Nam he could have long gone by way of the roof. We had it hard however we found out plenty. My moms and dads weren't my "peers" they we my lecturers. It used to be their task to arrange me to be a contributing, rough running and confidently smart member of the human race, now not purchase me a brand new vehicle whilst I used to be sixteen due to the fact that I acquired an A in some thing or I ate all my dinner. Now the large query is HOW DO WE FIX THIS?

Answer 6

Most immigrants make good citizens, because they choose the country they wish to live in. First generation would be the children of the original immigrants, not the immigrants themselves.