re: I'm really sick of the "we are a nation of immigrants" propaganda.

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But when you say "we are a nation of immigrants" you are cutting out approximately 88% of America.

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To draw a bright line and say, "well your parents were immigrants, but you are technically aren't" is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty. The families of immigrants are different than the families that trace back their ancestry for 100 years. And even then you can tell the Irish from the Italian from the Polish. Immigration as a phenomenon is bigger than the single person (and his generation) that moves here.