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I really mean no disrespect, but I am so tired of everyone having to be [fill in the blank] -American. It is probably the one thing that annoys me so much. Can't we all just be American? I get it, learn about your heritage, be proud of your heritage but at the end of the day we are all just American's. As Americans, we are so quick to label ourselves and then get pissed when someone else labels us, it makes no sense. My heritage is Irish, matter of fact, my Great Grandfather immigrated to the United States. I am still American and I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American. Look at all we have overcome. Are we perfect? Not even close. Yet people make careers out of trying to tear us apart. People come from all over the world to get a piece of the 'American Pie'...be proud of who we are collectively and never be ashamed being 'just' American!
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Labeling, classifying, segregating, equal opportunity, quotas, call-outs, statistics, percentages, special interest groups, caucuses, lobbyists - they ALL need to go. You are an American, you earn your place on your merits and nothing more.
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan it turns some people from the past agree with you. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19151014&id=jrogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i2kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3102,746070
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If you are a US citizen then you are an American. If you have papers that say you are a citizen then you have every right to be considered an American!
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"Why can't we just be Americans (and lose the hyphens)?" Sorry, no. Today's politics are based on dividing and conquering the hearts and minds of the masses. We are separated into groups and then set against one another to facilitate the political agenda of one party or the other (especially by those who are adverse to our traditional American paradigm of a land populated by free, self-governing people.
Again, sorry. I don't like it, not one bit. It's just the way we've allowed things to become...
Again, sorry. I don't like it, not one bit. It's just the way we've allowed things to become...
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I came to the States when I was 5, when people ask me what am I? I say American. But then they say "no really but where are you FROM? "
"New Jersey motherf*cker!"
"New Jersey motherf*cker!"
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I am Ginger-American. One out of every three hundred are blessed with that designation!!!
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Speaking of Gingers. Have you seen those two hotties on that Redneck show with the Ginger guy? I am talking his grandma and mother or something... lol
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Well I suppose since my family has Irish, Native American, English, Bohemian(?) that makes me a Mutt American?
And damn proud of it!
And damn proud of it!
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Good question, SPC(P) Jay Heenan. I could not agree more that we should all just be Americans.
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What's sad is, every day someone is offened of an American being American.
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