LOL, what a great reply, thank you for choosing to deal with my rant with humor and sarcasm.
The hyphenated American stuff has been grating on me for a while though. I was talking with a friend about this very thing the other day. She says that she thought that people, such as people who are black or Mexican, or Irish, etc., considered it a sign of respect to be referred to in such a manner. I consider it bigoted and not showing respect due to the USA.
Why aren’t people called American Irish or American Africans? What would people like myself be labeled as, my earliest known ancestors arrived here from Ireland in the 18th century. Since then, there have been people from nearly everywhere in Europe, some blacks of uncertain heritage, Seneca’s and Mohawk Indians, and Russians.
We always call ourselves Southern Rednecks if we’re lucky, Northern Yankee’s if we’re not, but always first and foremost as Americans. We have too much family in the ground all over the world to do otherwise.
You put things anyway you damn well please, that’s your right as an American.
I have hated the term since first hearing it, that was many years ago
at 60 I have lived through about all of them, screw’em, if they are Americans say so, if not go back to your first choice