I am fed up...with hyphen Americans.

[evan price]

I am absolutely, 100% fed up with people who identify themselves as a [Something]-American.

Obviously, things in your ancestral homeland sucked enough that your great grandparents or whomever decided to piss off and go to the New World to seek their fortune. Your ancestor who emigrated, they were hyphen-Americans. You are not. America was and is the land where people want to go to- millions of immigrants, legal or not, tell the tale. How many people are busting their hump to emigrate INTO where your ancestors came from? Why? Because this is America. We are all Americans. Period!

Did you personally emigrate from East Elbowstan or wherever you say you are from? NO? Well F-off, then, you are not a hyphen-American, you are an AMERICAN, be proud of who and what you are. I don't care if your ancestors came from England, Africa, Columbia, Spain, I don't care. You're not an African-American unless you personally came from Africa. Kim DuToit is an African-American. He's entitled to use that moniker, but he doesn't- because he correctly realizes that being American is enough.

You're not a Latin-American unless you swam the Rio Grande and got naturalized. No citizenship papers? You're a Mexican. Got naturalized? You're an American. It's a funny thing, all those people who claim to be Latin-Americans, and demand their rights, but can't be bothered with stuff like going through the process and getting legitimate citizenship.

The purpose of Hyphening is apparantly to somehow elevate yourself above being American. If you are so ashamed to be just an American, I pity you- maybe you should stop being an American and just go back to wherever was in front of the hyphen. See how bad stuff is in your ancestral home, then rejoice- you are an American after all.

[Dazen]

My great grandfather on my dad's side of the family was what some would refer to as an
American Indian. You would never have caught him saying that! When someone who didn't know him well had called him an American Indian or had slightly referred to him as such had to sit through a 15 minute lecture on how he is nothing more then just a American and damn
proud of that fact. To him it was an insult to be called anything other then American.

It does seem to me that there are more and more people i run into these days that claim
to be something other then American and that does leave me feeling like they think they are better or perhaps not very proud to just say they are American, I don't know? Maybe i think
the way i do Cause of my Great grandfather.he made sure that his son's,grandchildren and great grandchildren were all very proud of our country.

[Joe ex PNG]

Well, most of us Americans would run out of room if we had to hyphenate. I, for one am a Welsh-Engish-Scots-Irish-French-Polish-Hungarian-American. And one of my friends is an Irish-English-Japanese-German-Jamacian-Africian-Americian (or as he likes to say, Japmankalish). Note- his sister is quite hot, and sadly taken.

[FelixEstrella]

Hey! I'm a Romanian-Czech-African-American. Honor my uniqueness, bitches!!!!

[Weetabix]

May I refer to myself, without invoking your wrath, as a "Gunnie-American?"

[mekender]

shoot em all and call em ventilated Americans

[Jered]

There's a couple of people at my church who are actual African-Americans.

They're white.

[mekender]

you mean like her

[Bob K]

Every day I thank G-d my ancestors made the decision to come to America. I'm of Russian and German descent, but I am an AMERICAN!!

[clyde621]

+1 Plain ole American, My mom and dad are from here so are their parents. No need to go back any further as far as I am concerned.