I have a question for US readers. Why is it people refer to themselves as African American, Italian American etc? Why not just American? Surely if you´re born in America then you are American. We don´t use such terms in Australia, to my knowledge, at best people will say ´my family came from/comes from...´ I think the Brits are now getting into the British Asian / Black / two headed green thing from outer space stuff. Shame really. Either you´re from the country you´re born in or you´re not.
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Bee Bee wrote: I wonder the same. I think they you say African American to make a difference when you are not the American next door ....blond with blue eyes. :D Coz For example they dont say I'm German America, Welsh American hehehee
you are right they are all Americans :D
I'm latin american but im not from the US cool xD
ohhh so they should get a real name ...coz America is a continet as far as I know ....
Jun 8th, 2009 | 08:15 PM
tina wrote: I'm not a US reader. I reckcon maybe they just need a term to identify people with few words. Saying 'my family came from...' may be lengthy.
Jul 4th, 2009 | 02:01 AM
andy wrote: im a american and yes i agree with you they were call color foks when i was a kid
Oct 8th, 2009 | 02:37 PM
Jun wrote: Because the term "American" is relative to your experience. It means something different to each group depending on how they have access to the so called "Dream". Check out this email that went out:
Should a mother chose between being a responsible parent or serving her country? Or, can you separate the two? Can a single mom abandon her task as a care giver for her child and not do the country a disservice due to the type of person that child may become without proper nurturing and trauma suffered being separated from mom at 10 months? This thought is taken from a news story I read about a young single military mom who faces criminal charges for skipping her deployment to Afghanistan as opposed to going and leaving her child in foster care.
I listen to some who hurl about the phrase "you're a great American" and it seems that only applies to those in military service or those who take a popular political view according to those who use the phrase. I think there are GREAT AMERICANS around us everyday that most times are overlooked because the position these hold is without celebrity.
As our technology gets further advanced our compassion and hope seems more challenged perhaps because we have alienated too many by labeling too few as GREAT AMERICANS and have only labeled superficial things as the "American Dream". So LORD we ask again "GOD Bless America" because LORD knows we need it.
Thought taken from story on link below:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_re_us/us_soldier_mom_deployment
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