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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Yes. Bcs you have been a U.S. citizen for over a century. And North America was colonized and invaded. As mentioned, Anglos did not call the Vikings immigrants. There is a vast difference between you and me. I immigrated here during my lifetime. You have NOT. Nor was there such a thing as a poor "immigrant" around the turn of the 19 to 20 centuries. They had money to leave. 
I will never been see as an American, even though I have been one since 1996. You know it, I know it, all the people here know it. So, enough with your BS. You are not an immigrant. Long ago, your ancestors took a ship here, not you. Facts matter. Nation of immigrants, a nation of invaders, a nation of colonists, not we are all immigrants here.[/quote]

Previous poster here who tried to engage with you earlier but no response.. You do not want to engage with anyone. Your rigid thinking and self righteousness is pitiable and perhaps why you feel so hostile because you can’t comprehend the world is more
Complex than your fragile construction of us vs them. If you feel like no one will ever see you as an American perhaps it’s because you cling so tightly to the idea of your own difference—that only current first generation immigrants count as such as you refuse to
See that you have a lot more in common with the millions of people who call this imperfect place home.

. This country has had many waves of immigrants for centuries (from
Colonists to those seeking asylum) and the wonderful thing is how immigration has made this country a better richer more interesting place even with challenges and anti immigration sentiment. This idea you have if you vs everyone else is a colonists is stupid. Look around. Half the country speaks Spanish. There are east and south Asian and Middle eastern communities everywhere in every state now. And the forced migration of millions of Black—will you deny their heritage at Americans and yet also descendants of a painful diaspora, one their ancestors did not choose?

I’m white and I’m sure you would call me a colonist . one side of my Jewish grandparents fled Poland in 1935 , the other side the pogroms in 1890s. No they did not have money to leave. They left everything they had. (What about you? Did you come here I. 1995 penniless or what it to study or work?) 
My great grandmother lived with 6 people in. 300 sq fr tenement  sewing clothes 10 hours a day. My grandfather who came in the 1930s lost everything (including extended family) and restarted here. He became a citizen, and ultimately a renowned professor.  Thanks to him I  have benefited from both being an American but also have a family heritage. I’m not going to claim I’m an immigrant by any means but the idea that reminding people that this country’s best achievements and aspirations have come from generations of immigrants is important. Of course this country was founded on exploitation and genocide. That’s undeniable. But it’s also been formed by immigration and you are not the first nor the last immigrant here. You are part of a larger story.  The idea that this story does not count and that you want all people who are not recent immigrants to identify as colonists  (and bigots!) actually fuels a right wing nativism/xenophobia that pits “white Christian Americans” against everyone else. But you would rather attack people than engage in real dialogue. [/quote]

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