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Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
Not sure what you guys are saying? If you live in the United States and are an American citizen you are suppsoed to do what? Foreswear any identification to your ethnic heritage? Why? For what? Someone's arbitrary understanding of....? Loyalty? Correctivness?
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iMO, "American, with Irish heritage" is far less
offensive than "IRISH American"
The difference is in whether a transplant happens to be living in America, vs someone who is an American first. "
Prefaced American" is not at all American. This country is said to be a melting pot. ..not "tribes"