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re: Your mind will wrap itself in knots if you ponder the term 'African American'
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:54 pm to ballscaster
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:54 pm to ballscaster
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Thank you, thank you. And I think it was roadgator who marveled at how seldom, if ever, he hears the (European)-American labels, and that's ultimately because most people we all know are not first-generation Americans, but multi-generational mutt Americans. There isn't an ethnic ingredient in me that comprises of more than 25% of my blood, so I'm way far from saying "French-American" about myself.
I am a third generation american (the Jaden in your example), but also a "mutt." Plenty of people I know still think of themselves as "Swedish" or "Italian" or "Irish."
But you are generally correct. That mindset slowly changes over time, as it should.
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:57 pm to BigJim
I still think of myself as Anglo-Scottish in some regards, as my genealogical records and DNA testing back it up, but I am so far removed from any sense of those places that it is much more productive to think of myself as a Southerner - a region which I am very much not removed from, and very much in practice with its customs, mannerism, culture, cuisine, etc.,
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