why dont people identify with being american?
**not intended to be racist, I’m just writing a paper.***
The American people in general do not identify with being american. if you were to ask someone what their nationality is, they would list off their family ancestry no matter how far back it dates. For example, eveyone these days claims to be native american or some other race that traces WAAAAAAY back, but the fact is if you were born in america, they’re american. So why dont we identify with that?
The stigma is— american is not a ethnic family anyone can relate to. You can relate to being irish, or german or african or native american and be able to show commonality as to racial or subracial characteristics and social beliefs. But being “american” doesn’t work that way; my friend who is of chinese ancestry and one who is of african descent have little in common physically with me, of european descent. So we just don’t rationalize that our “melting pot” after 200 years is in fact that, and I have more in common with my two friends than my european ancestors from 250 years ago. Ethnic pride is something that is hard to really describe, but certainly causes a lot of heartache–look at Serbia and the other former yugoslavian proviences, and how the Roma people are treated around Europe. While ethnic pride is good, it is also often used to promote ethnic discrimination, (which has happened throughout europe, even recently) and in the US, we don’t have these ethnic conflicts. Sure we have some problems between european stock and african stock, or hispanics, but we don’t go around killing our next door neigbors like happened in Bosnia! So maybe the lack of an ethnic identity is a good thing.
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