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06-19-2005, 02:53 PM
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Are You Just an American
I have a good friend sitting here and we discuss a lot of things.
He wondered since Africa is a Continent, and Black people who come from Africa want to be known as African Americans!
Does that make the rest of us who are White and are from America, a part of the North American Continent, American-Americans?
If you are from Asia and are Asian Americans, why are you not just American-Americans?
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06-19-2005, 03:28 PM
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I'd say it has to do with culture heritage really... after all historically speaking Europeans have also refered to themselves in the hyphenated American form as well (Irish-American, Italian-American, and if you go back far enough Anglo & Scotch as well)... as for the terms African American and Asian American those terms are for the most part descriptives invented by the majority to be applied to a minority - a majority that doesn't seem to care for the finer details of cultural origin (or wish to be constantly reminded)... because in the case of African American those details are lost or eliminated because of the nature of their arrival in the US - not as immigrants but as slaves...
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06-19-2005, 03:33 PM
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06-19-2005, 03:39 PM
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Would that make me an Irish, German, Cherokee, Arkansan, Texan, American?
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06-19-2005, 04:39 PM
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I was gonna say that too.
I proudly consider myself a Texan, but in this context, I'd be a Texan-American.
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06-19-2005, 05:18 PM
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I proudly consider myself a Texan, but in this context, I'd be a Texan-American.
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Isn't that redundant, since there's not a Texas outside the US? It would be really cool, though, if Texas could be its own country, and then if you left Texas and came to the US, you could be a Texan-American.
GO PISTONS!! HAHA.
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06-19-2005, 06:27 PM
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Isn't that redundant, since there's not a Texas outside the US? It would be really cool, though, if Texas could be its own country, and then if you left Texas and came to the US, you could be a Texan-American.
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*whispering* don't you know that Texans think IT IS another country?
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06-19-2005, 07:55 PM
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*whispering* don't you know that Texans think IT IS another country?
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From 1836 until 1845 Texas WAS its own country. Native Texans will not let anyone forget that. (And for the record, I'm a 'naturalized' and not a native Texan.)
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06-19-2005, 07:57 PM
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Do Asians in the US really say "Asian-American" rather than referring to their own ethnicity (e.g. Korean-American, Chinese-American, Japanese-American, etc)?
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06-20-2005, 08:50 AM
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Do Asians in the US really say "Asian-American" rather than referring to their own ethnicity (e.g. Korean-American, Chinese-American, Japanese-American, etc)?
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They say both.
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06-20-2005, 10:06 AM
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They say both.
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06-20-2005, 10:24 AM
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06-20-2005, 01:11 PM
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Isn't that redundant, since there's not a Texas outside the US? It would be really cool, though, if Texas could be its own country, and then if you left Texas and came to the US, you could be a Texan-American.
GO PISTONS!! HAHA.
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There is a Texas outside the US. We dont really see that we're in the US. Its more like were in a mutually beneficial partnership with the US.
We let them be and they let us be.
Someone once told me the following about pride:
A Texan goes overseas and tells people he's from Texas.
An American goes oversees and tells people he's from Canada. lol.
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06-20-2005, 01:13 PM
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From 1836 until 1845 Texas WAS its own country. Native Texans will not let anyone forget that.
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Absolutely. You can't be in France or England and go visit the former "Republic of Ohio" embassy. There is a former Republic of Texas Embassy that you can go visit in both countries.
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06-20-2005, 01:22 PM
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Ok I've always wondered this and I hope it doesn't get taken the wrong way.
What if you're caucasian, from Africa, and moved to America. Would you still be considered African American?
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