3 or 4 generations? Give me a break. My family came over so long ago that we don't know when it happened, just that our lineage can be traced back before the Revolution, to Loyalists and Patriots alike, to both Americans and Canadians, but we don't know and can't discover when they arrived via ship, but it was a lot more than 3 generations ago. 3 generations ago my family was fighting Nazism. 5 generations ago, they fought and died for the Union. How many generations do I and my family need to live on this continent before this is a place we're allowed to live without it being on "stolen land" like the radicals in Canada like to proclaim?
Or am I supposed to tell my children they have to "go back" to countries that no longer exist, on a continent that never wanted them in the first place, six, seven, eight generations after their ancestors left? A continent which is also under pressure to accept whatever immigrants wish to move there, no matter the repercussions of conflicts of culture.
This kind of dismissive attitude towards European-descended Americans is the same racist attitude that underpins the hatred towards anyone who identifies ethnically as "American," which I do, because my family's heritage is long-severed from the Old World, and thank God my kids won't even be able to be accused of being White, that evil race, due to my own miscegenation, so they do not need to listen to this kind of racist drivel about Americans with light skin on sites like this one day after day after day
Out of your thousand or so nominal ancestors from ~1776, none of them lived outside the US and Canada? That's an astonishingly complete genealogy and given that the vast, vast majority of Americans have more recent immigrant heritage somewhere, more than a little unbelievable.
Or am I supposed to tell my children they have to "go back" to countries that no longer exist, on a continent that never wanted them in the first place, six, seven, eight generations after their ancestors left? A continent which is also under pressure to accept whatever immigrants wish to move there, no matter the repercussions of conflicts of culture.
This kind of dismissive attitude towards European-descended Americans is the same racist attitude that underpins the hatred towards anyone who identifies ethnically as "American," which I do, because my family's heritage is long-severed from the Old World, and thank God my kids won't even be able to be accused of being White, that evil race, due to my own miscegenation, so they do not need to listen to this kind of racist drivel about Americans with light skin on sites like this one day after day after day