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I find it interesting how others try to impose their opinions about how America and Americans should define themselves, even when they have no clue, and then judge us accordingly.

First of all, there are plenty of Americans who were born in other countries who ARE Americans, because they became citizens after immigrating. And actually, there really isn't any other country with the same history, which has been identified as a nation of multi-national and multi-racial immigrants for so long and on such scale. The history of immigration in most other Western democracies is much more recent and small-scale in comparison. Hence, our core identity IS as a nation of immigrants.

The stories of immigration and passage to American citizenship are still writ large in the history of many ethnic and white ethnic families not that long ago, and has become part of their cultural tapestry and patchwork-nature of the country's ethnic groups and historical development.

Secondly, I'm a mixed-race American from a multi-racial background, including my parents and grandparents. My family runs the racial gamut, and I have genes which predominately reflect my white side. That is all fine and well, but in name, familial ties, and demographics I am also from another heritage of which I am not only proud, but refuse to allow to be whitewashed simply because some white Australian doesn't understand and finds me pathetic for doing so. I find that pompous and completely intolerant.

I am sure it is the same for many Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Greek-Americans, Iranian-Americans, African-Americans, and on and on who each have their own rich history and ethnic sub-cultures, quite possibly in Australia as well.

We are not WASPS, plain and simple, and don't wish to be lumped into one indistinguishable mass simply for the convenience of others. Nor should we, because our looks, sub-cultures and experiences are different, and there's nothing wrong with being different in a real multi-cultural society. Hence, we are hyphenated.

I understand how this causes an inconvenience for some haters who like nothing more than to lump us all into one hated stereotype of Americans to pour scorn upon, but, I guess you'll have to be more creative in your hate.

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I am not Australian. I have relatives in Australia and America and the UK.

You are desperate to be defined as something else other than American. That is clear. But you are still American.

BTW, American does not mean white..or Anglo Saxon or protestant or to be scorned. It means simply that you are from there. Deal with it.

I could give a crap where your ancestors are from. If I did, I'd call myself African-Irish. I'm pretty sure my ancestors occupied the rift valley at some point.

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I'll quote Kiwiboy_NZ

" I am a human being"

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