Berethond said:
That happens because, unlike Europeans, we in North America have not spent two thousand years staring at their great-great-great-greatx1000 grandparents graves. We all came from a place other than North America, we are not native, and the odds are extremely high most of our family's been here less than four generations.
This, pretty much. In my case, I'm not more than 1/8th
any particular nationality. I identify with particular bits of my parents' culture that was communicated to them by their parents, who filtered their own cultures, etc. etc, going back through 3 generations of multi-ethnic parents. I do own that part of my family's plural heritage that gets communicated down to me, and that's an important part of who I am, even if not
the most important part. Culturally? I'm pretty damn American. But a fair number of Puerto Rican, Polish, German and even Indian bits sneak in there every once in a while, and it'd be foolish not to recognize why they're there.
Funny story though: I'm more white than I am any other race, but whenever I tell someone that...
