i dont know anyone who says they are of american origin unless they are native. its always Italian American etc. i guess America is too new to ever be considered an ethnic background.
Can America ever be consider an ethnicity?
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It may take a few more centuries! USA is such a large nation that the regions within it are easier to bond with than the whole thing, in the meantime. The Texan the Californian, the Iron Ranger, the New Englander, the hillbilly, the Creole, are examples.
I don't think American will ever be an ethnicity. Most of it's current occupants already have biological origins in different countries. Babies born in American recognize they're own heritage by observing their parents. AFRICAN-american, EUROPEAN-american, MEXICAN-american..so on and so forth...
It'll be an immeasurable amount of time before people drop those hyphenated labels. It would happen if parents stopped identifying themselves by their origins and raised their children as "Americans" and nothing more....
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before American becomes an ethnicity, international travel and globalization will result in "ethnicity" becoming a quaint and passe relic of a prior age.
The tangled skeins of our genetic and cultural heritage are becoming ever more snarled with each passing generation.
Is Tiger Woods Black? European? Asian?
Yes, he is.
Is Barack Obama Black? Is he Scotch-Irish? Muslim? Christian?
All of the above.
It will matter less and less from whence we came and more and more who we decide to be in the here and now.
The tangled skeins of our genetic and cultural heritage are becoming ever more snarled with each passing generation.
Is Tiger Woods Black? European? Asian?
Yes, he is.
Is Barack Obama Black? Is he Scotch-Irish? Muslim? Christian?
All of the above.
It will matter less and less from whence we came and more and more who we decide to be in the here and now.
well i always ask people from places like Italy and England and they are usually from different places as well. so its all a mix. No one is pure except za' germans i guess.
*i think my question is impossible because native americans are already the natives. so its impossible for anyone but native americans to be of american ethnicity
*i think my question is impossible because native americans are already the natives. so its impossible for anyone but native americans to be of american ethnicity
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