Do you get upset when you hear people say we are all immigrants in America, I for one am not an immigrant I was born here?
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razz4901
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I do not get mad. I become furious!
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If you believe in Adam and Eve, I guess we're all immigrants....so to speak. I'm with you, I'm an AMERICAN! I didn't come here to live, I was born here, and I'm PROUD of it.
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I imagine someone making a statement like that unless they were trying too hard to be politically correct. By definition, immigrants are people who came here from another country. Clearly, we are not all immigrants, although at some point somewhere in our family history someone would have to be. People who say that we are all immigrants either are not saying what they mean to say, or they are dumb.
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I don't get upset at all. That's the kind of thing I say all the time.
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I think people make that statement hoping to bring empathy for the situations many immigrants have to deal with. That is why that statement doesn't upset me personally. And my father was an immigrant which brings the realities of adjusting to life in America, as an immigrant, closer to home. Yet you are right for the statement is simplistic, for what they mean to say is that we are all descendants of immigrants. Yet that is not exactly correct either. Not everyone is a descendant of immigrants for there were indigenous cultures here when America was "discovered."
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A little. I was born here, not back in Ireland. To say I'm an immegrant is just not true. My family members were immegrants back in the 1500's, but that wasn't by choice they were running from the English who wanted to kill them. Even with that I am very proud to be an American.
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But to look at it another way, America is known as the Immigrant Nation. So I guess you could say we are all immigrants. A melting pot, even though most have done melted together already. I actually am an immigrant from the 50s from Europe. But I don't see anything derogative about saying someone is an immigrant. Most immigrants I know are hard working people who have actually chosen to live here and have worked hard to make a life for themselves and their family to come for generations. I feel proud to be from such stock, knowing how hard my parents worked to 'make good' here. I was just a little girl but we all had a part in it, learning the laws, the language, trying to find our way in such a big country.
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I don't, I was born in Poland, and moved to the U.S. when I was like 4, so that does apply to me I guess; but if you call me a damn alien I'll kick your ass! LoL
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Well, I'm not personally an immigrant either, but most of my ancestors came from England, Scotland, Germany and Ireland. When people say we're a nation of immigrants they generally just mean that most of us have ancestors that came here from somewhere else. Of course, I'm part Cherokee, too. LOL. I did see a great editorial cartoon a few years ago showing Indians watching the Mayflower land and saying, "Oh, well. There goes the neighborhood." I guess I'm going to have to be schizophrenic on this one.
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