[knarf]

FROM MY FB FRIEND, MARY F.

We are NOT a nation of immigrants nor descendants of immigrants.

A nation of immigrants would be no nation at all but a random gathering of people of assorted races, religions, and nationalities, united only by their presence in the same land.

With no native culture to provide national unity, the population would tend to fragment on racial and ethnic lines, ensuring division and strife as groups pursue their interests at each other’s expense.

Rather we are a settlers' nation, resulting from the achievement of the settlers who founded those colonies and, in time, won independence from their Mother Country. It was the settlers’ nation, not empty wilderness, that later gave immigrants a new home.

And these immigrants became the naturalized & native born Americans.

[Architect of Avalon]

That is true and written very well.

[Rapscallion]

Rather we are a settlers' nation, resulting from the achievement of the settlers who founded those colonies and, in time, won independence from their Mother Country. It was the settlers’ nation, not empty wilderness, that later gave immigrants a new home.

Could not have said it better myself.

[EdnaMode]

That is perfect.

[Charles Martel]

Rather we are a settlers' nation, resulting from the achievement of the settlers who founded those colonies and, in time, won independence from their Mother Country. It was the settlers’ nation, not empty wilderness, that later gave immigrants a new home.

And these immigrants became the naturalized & native born Americans.

Mary F. could expound further on the "settlers' nation" part if she wished, by mentioning "Mother Countries" in plural. When the United States absorbed the French settlers in the Louisiana Purchase territory, the country doubled in size overnight.

[Neoliberalnot]

Anybody that has been here for 5 generations is a Native American.