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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So is this the new way to further divide people? "Oh Im white, but you know, Mayflower white, not shouty second generation Irish or French white." [/quote]

Somehow there was never any inter ethnic strife in the USA after prior mass waves of German, Irish, Italian, and eastern European immigration.  Nope, this whole division is a brand new thing.[/quote]

Oh please. White americans dont divide by their great-grandparents nationality. Literally no one cares. [/quote]

Uhhh, yes they do.[/quote]

Only in a really commercialized way. Most white people learned about their european ancestry on a trip to Epcot.

I have had just too many experiences where someone says "I'm x nationality!" And you start talking to them in their supposed mother tongue and they dont actually speak it. You're just American.  And I am also just American bc when I go to my supposed homeland, it is culturally different from how I was raised... as an American.  [/quote]

Languange is not a market specially for older generations. We were not allowed to learn it. It was considered to inhibit learning in English. FWIW I am not fluent but I have studied it.  Have second cousins still in Europe. My moms first cousins there only recently died (within two years).. I grew up on ethnic food, am a lifelong member of an ethnic fraternal organization, I belong to a hyphenated American historical society, maintain contact with family abroad, spent a summer studying abroad there, and carry on many traditions that my family celebrates overseas. Most of my Italian, German, Mexican, Lebanese, Polish, Chaldean, and a few Irish Irish friends growing up had a parent or grandparent that immigrated here. Foreign languages were and still are spoken in their parents homes. Heck my family’s Catholic parish says Mass in a combination of Spanish, Polish and English. We grew up in a major city and on the edge of it. If someone asked what your background was no one said Italian-American, they said Italian. And voting anything other than D was more than frowned upon.

I agree SOME people are far removed from their overseas heritage but plenty of us are not AND we don’t speak the family’s immigrant language.[/quote]

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