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I care about where my ancestors are from sometimes because I like learning about them but I’m not Canadian, French, Prussian, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, etc etc just because they were all from where they were. The most successful people in the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this US in the traditional sense were almost exclusively “generic white man” whose lifestyle and last name got anglicized generations ago. That Mr Grant you see is of German ancestry, that Mr Smith is Polish… It’s only for the late comers (especially people of color) that got frequently reminded of their “otherness”, as a tactic of exclusion by the “true Americans”. “You’re not one of us. Don’t you ever forget where your ancestors came from, cuz we surely won’t” In Britain, people are very aware of Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English heritage. And they are even more aware of if people are black, or Arab, or Asian.
It is not visible as much in pop culture because the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this number of people in a country in Europe not “from that country” is much lower than in the U.S. where only about 3% are native Americans. I grew up in England with Irish, Welsh and Scottish ancestry. I am aware of it, but it is not very relevant to my identity. I am English even if my great grandparents came from different places. My accent is English, my humour is English, I support the English football team, the education system I know is English, I enjoy watching pub cricket while drinking cider in the summer, etc. It seems bizarre to me to identify with other cultures because some ancestor I never met was of that culture. Acting like my “culture” follows genetic lines seems ridiculous when those genes pre-dated the invention of the culture by thousands of years. Others have addressed the “nation of immigrants” angle. One term I’ve run across is calling it a Settler State. Not necessarily unique- Australia would be another example.

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Most nations have a binding cultural element that is mostly independent of formal government. No matter what the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this State calls itself, who is in charge, it has considerable social inertia. Consider say France’s multiple governments (5th Republic at this point, with various Monarchy and Emperor titles thrown in) and a full on occupation at one point. Yet, the sense of identity is stlll “French”. Take away US government in similar fashion, and you would be rather hard pressed to have such solidarity in culture or national identity if similar things happened in a similar timeframe. We’re bound by ideas, a shared concept and some old documents. Otherwise a hodgepodge of cultures under a loose framework of shared rules – not an identity. That’s why it’s so common for Americans to have hyphenated descriptions. Italian-American, Irish-American, ect. Not trying to usurp those old nations, or claim citizenship or even shared identity so much as filling in the sparse shared national identity with personal family culture.
True – while a Settler State like the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this US, the cultural nature isn’t going to be 1 to 1. Everyone place has its quirks. I suspect that the ‘small town’ structures that built up as the US nation pushed west had a hand in that “hyphenation”. Small towns founded and initially settled primarily by particular immigrant enclaves, only later diversifying. Australia doesn’t really have a similar stretch of vast amounts of farming land to support those smaller towns, for the most part. Though that is just a guess. I have heard though that there is at least something analogous with Asian migrants, though that might be internal to the communities too. I would not be so quick to say this. Many Australians are very proud of their Irish/Italian/Greek/etc heritage, even if it’s two generations back.
I would imagine many Americans lack a sense of identity, as a lot of us can only date back our heritages in this nation to roughly a hundred years ago or so. That is to say that most of us cannot credit our families as having fought to free the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this US from England. We can’t say our ancestors settled the west. Heck, a lot of us can’t even discuss which side of WW1/2 our families fought on without a sense of embarrassment. What we do have is that our ancestors came from a place where they kicked a lot of ass before running out of potatoes, and that just tends to feel a lot more interesting than basically having nothing. My family kept pretty meticulous records of their time in America since coming here in the 1700s and even being able to say my ancestors fought England (both in North Ireland and generations later in the states lol) and settled the west (point of shame), there’s still a strong sense of Scottish identity running through all my grandfather’s’s’s’s journals even when they were in Ireland post-highland clearances, so family culture has passed down a “we’re scottish” for the past 300+ years. I still consider myself American (8 generations in America on my dad’s side) but the global Scottish diaspora in my clan get together in Scotland every 4 years to say howdy which also reaffirms some historical scottish identity.
(It’s also funny to me that this is all basically nonsense as it’s just a single patrilineal line and 8 generations is like 250+ different family groups that went into making me) As a non-American. It feels like Americans are proud of being American, but it feels like there’s also a desire to be of another place as well. I disagree, When an American says they are “Italian” they talk of their ethnicity and not nationality. We’re all clearly American no matter where your family may have immigrated from in the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this past. A supporting concept is birth-right citizenship. If you’re born in America you’re American. A Japanese kid born in Norway isn’t considered Norwegian unless they go through a nationalization process and demonstrate fluency in language. You can be born and raised in Norway and not be considered Norwegian. It’s actually hilarious when someone from America says they’re Irish but have never been there , have no idea about the culture outside of St.Patrick’s day and Guinness. It must feel exotic to them it’s very bizarre.
What made you decide this was a good idea to post after reading it probably 5 million times on Reddit already? When Americans say they are a certain ancestry they’re not saying they’re from that country, they’re saying that their family originated in those areas. It influences their language, their culture, the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this religion they were brought up in, literally their physical appearance for fuck sake, etc. Jesus Christ quit huffing your own fucking shit I feel like a lot of Europeans who complain about the way Americans talk about their heritage have all/nearly all their heritage from the countries in which they live/ grew up so they simply cannot understand. Most of the people I knew in school weren’t full Irish. My mom’s Norwegian and I’ve seen many relatives thatve visited but my personal identity would still be fully Irish. I may have had grandparents and all from Norway but I’ve never even been there so it’d be strange to include in my personal identity. ‘Is my opinion on it as a European The main complaints are about the people that are 12% Irish or German ancestry and suddenly make that their entire personality. To a German, those people are American, there’s no cultural connection.
Is it really that common to make something that’s 12% of your heritage your “whole personality”? Unless you count simply talking about one’s heritage to be “making that their entire personality.” Germans (or Dutch, or Danes, or whatever) would feel a cultural connection with other present day countrymen. Not with people whose great-grandparent emigrated from roughly the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this same location they’re from, but are entirely American. If one parent was born abroad perhaps, but not the “I’m [x] because my grandfather was” people. I’m talking about their own specific grandparents though not other people’s grandparents. Do you feel your grandparents had an important impact on your cultural beliefs? So you don’t feel like cultural beliefs were spread to you from your parents who got theirs from their parents? That’s so interesting. Do you think your cultural beliefs came from outside the family?
Parents, society, school, everything really. We’re all just one country and it’s changed a lot since our grandparents’ day. We still got different groups but society has changed. The people that emigrated from the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this Netherlands to the Midwest, Canada and Australia were the more rural and conservative people and much of the social progress we made is at least partially because they removed themselves from the voting population. Their heritage is a thing of the past. If they come back to play ice hockey for us that’s fine but they’re Canadians. Our grandparents are usually from our countries. If they are not, it depends on the way you were raised. Did you visit them a lot? Did they teach you about their culture? Do you know the language, customs, have you ever visited? If not, then no. Noone will feel a “cultural connection” to a culture they have no idea about just because their ancestors were of that culture. If I bothered to look I’d probably find ancestry from for example Ukraine or Poland, I’d never claim I am Polish or Ukrainian though. The only cultural connection I feel with them is through my own culture, because we are all slavs.
A lot of people do grow up in the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this United States with multiple languages and learning about the culture of the older generations in their family. Those are not the main complaints. Europeans shit their pants when Americans so much as hint at their ancestry. I wouldn’t think twice at someone saying they have Scottish ancestry. But if someone who had never been to Scotland said they were Scottish it feels different. When we say we are Scottish we aren’t referring to nationality. It’s just an easy way of saying “my ancestors immigrated from Scotland”. Maybe that is where the confusion lies. I didn’t realize y’all thought we were referring to nationality. If I hear someone say I’m French, Scottish, Spanish etc. I would understand that to be them talking about nationality rather than ancestry. Yeah. When you live in the US, the overwhelming majority of people you interact with are also from the US, but only ~3% of them are actually descended from a Native American Nation. The rest of us are from somewhere else. So when someone says “I’m German” but doesn’t have even the slightest trace of a German accent, it’s understood that they mean “I’m of German descent”, because actual Europeans are pretty uncommon here. I have an Irish friend–literally born in Ireland, moved to the US in her teens–who (nowadays) speaks with an American accent, and when she tells people she’s Irish she has to follow up with “no I’m actually Irish, that’s where I was born, and that’s my citizenship” because she sounds like an American, so people assume she means “I’m Irish-American” when she says “I’m Irish”. That’s not to say there aren’t people who show up in Europe thinking their 12% Dutch blood is going to mean something to the Dutch, but we consider them just as cringe as you do. Perhaps moreso, because they’re embarrassing the rest of us by proxy.
A lot of Americans tend to think of where we’re from in two ways. The first is where we are culturally from. The second is where our blood is from. For example. I’m an American, and I’m also Polish-German. Culturally, in pretty much every single way, I am an American through and through. My earliest American ancestors where here since the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this 1700s. But if I were to take a DNA test, it wouldn’t say “American” would it? No, it wouldn’t, I’m not Native American. I’ve taken a DNA test, and it says my DNA comes from the Polish and German regions of Europe. Therefore, if someone asked me where my great ancestors came from, I would say Poland/Germany. It doesn’t mean that I am Polish or German culturally, linguistically, or any other way. It just means that my blood and DNA comes from Poland/Germany. I look like a person from Poland/Germany.
To be completely fair though, there are some Americans who are 14% Italian, and their families came to America in the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this late 1800s, yet act more stereotypically culturally Italian, than most Italians actually born in Italy. Those people are indeed cringe. However, there are ALSO people whose parents immigrated from say, Ireland, in the late 60s. These people tend to be authentically of two cultures, because while they were raised in America, they were raised in America… by immigrants from Ireland. Just because the parents moved from Ireland to America, doesn’t mean they suddenly lose any and all cultural connections to where they came from. The Americanization of their cultural make up, takes time, and doesn’t happen overnight. A lot of them even still speak with a strong accent from where they are from. These people are genuine in my opinion, and are not cringe.
Here, it is pretty obvious we are American. If a foreign guy said “I’m French” I’d assume he’s here visiting from France. If my co-worker Steve says “I’m French” it’s pretty obvious he’s American and he’s referring to some distant relative that immigrated from France. People complain about this on the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this internet though. You don’t have an accent on the internet, nor can we see you. Many Americans will still say “I’m French” or “as a French man” when they mean having French ancestry, there are no clear indication in text. I guess this is the part where the confusion comes from! If someone who I know is an American tells me they’re French my first thought is ha that’s a lie, I know you’re American! That’s not to say they’re wrong to call themselves French. I have learned that is something Americans do. But (as a Dutch person) it does weird me out a bit when Americans tell me they’re Dutch when they don’t speak a word of Dutch and they’ve never even set foot in the Netherlands. Like I have 40% Scandinavian DNA but I would never dare call myself Scandinavian because to me that would be lying.
Because it’s literally what it means. If you were saying “I’m from New York”, people would think you are living there, not that someone from your family lived there 200 years ago Nope, it’s just when one uses it as a personality definer. Many people in Europe have ancestry from different countries (especially at the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this borders of one states). Thi is because for us is not that relevant.my father was born close to frontier in italy, his mkther side of the family was a mix of pland and ukrain, my mom is from south america and i was born there but grow up in Europe. So what should i be? I grew up in Italy so i’m simply italian I think you are assuming where their ancestry comes from because they don’t follow the American mindset of heritage. People like Harry Kane or Wayne Rooney come across as completely English despite clearly having Irish ancestry, for example.
I never said all Europeans have heritage only/mostly where they currently live I said a lot of them do. Do you disagree? Just shows the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this difference between the US being a giant melting pot and celebrating cultural differences vs European countries forcing assimilation to a culture. Just two different approaches to immigration. Yeah not like hundreds of years of constant population migrations and border shifts due to wars would have caused people to have „mixed“ ancestry, no we all just have ancestry from one country. Growing up in Appalachia, that culture is very important to me. But, being from Irish and English migrants, that heritage is important to me as well. No. As an American we are just like Europeans in that where we were born is the most important. I think why you got that idea is that we are a bit sad we feel like we have no real identity so who our ancestors were is more important. So many of us lost our culture and religions coming over here that we don’t feel like we have a tribe and we want one is how I see it. That plus mixed marriages making adhering to one religion or another challenging. And other stuff. As an American I agree with this as well. My family has only been here around 170 ish years from one side and yet there are still some that treat me like a “second wave immigrant that is assmilated but still clings to the culture of my ancestry” Which I do not. I knew nothing about it until deciding to learn it on my own.
I would rather just be American but because there really isn’t such a title other than nationality and a plethora of sub cultures Its hard to identify as such. It gets exestential sometimes The USA is a nation of (mostly) immigrants. Many members of immigrant groups settled in neighborhoods with other immigrants from the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this same country/region. You will still find “Little Italy,” “Chinatown,” etc in major cities. The Catholic Church has even had parishes for different immigrant groups, that people still attended after moving out of the immigrant neighborhoods. That means that some traditions and in-group mentality have persisted in some families (not all). That’s no different from most European countries, especially Western European countries, though. As a percentage of the population, there are more immigrants living in the UK or Germany than in the U.S., but people who are British or German by birth don’t go around saying, “I’m British-Latvian” just because their great-great grandmother lived in Riga until she was 2 years old. For many (most?) europeans they might at well be the same; If you’re a citizen of France you are probably culturally french, ethnically french, french catholic, etc.
That’s not the Grinch Hand Holding Philadelphia Eagles Christmas Shirt and I will buy this case in the US. The only ethnic Americans are the American Indians. So when an American national says they are Irish for example we mean ethnically Irish. That being said there are plenty of Americans who think being ethnically Irish makes them “fully” Irish. I saw a post recently where an ethnically polish but nationally 100% American person who went to Poland and was shocked the people there only saw them as American. I think the idea of an American saying I’m German or Italian or something else is overblown. If we do it I think it’s more to show a connection with the person we’re talking to. Like we’re distant cousins. We definitely see ourselves as an extension or maybe the next progression of western civilization that started in Europe. So it seems like a way to show some commonality to me. Oh for real. I don’t think Americans are any better than Europeans. I think you guys do a good number of things a whole hell of a lot better than us. But we think new = better over here, even when it’s not.

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