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*RandomRobskii Jul 25, 2012 Student General Artist

So, this is something I've been thinking about for a while now, and after seeing it more than I normally do, I thought I'd complain about it.

I actually can't stand it when people say "I'm part (insert nationality here)!" When they aren't.

Example: hypothetical person is English. They've lived in England all of their lives. Their parents have lived in England all of their lives. A grandparent was Spanish. "Yeah, I'm english-spanish!". No, you're not.

You're English. You were not born in spain, you were not raised in Spain, you weren't brought up with any Spanish traditions. You're English.

I guess the above is the same reason I despise the term African American. Can't a black American not just be American? If their parents and their parents have never even been to Africa, why do people feel the need to call them African-American?

Equally, I hate it just as much that someone's skin colour must play an important role of where someone's from.
I'm not the whitest person around, but I sure as hell don't go around saying 'I'm part Indian', just because one set of grandparents are. I'm english. I've never been to Goa, and I know jack-all about the traditions. I get a lot of questions asking if I'm from Turkey/Spain/insert sunny european country here simply because of the colour of my skin. Can't people just accept me for being English? -_-'

Hell, maybe I can even take it to the extreme and say I'm 1/454524th Italian, because of that one guy in my family way back when who ran off with a Spanish nun.

Can't people just be proud to be the nationality that they actually are?

Any thoughts?

_{in this lil' rant, I'm not actually including the people who are actually dual nationality, just the ones who feel the need to tell other's that they're a 16th wherever because someone distantly relatated to them was from another country.}

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~little-wild-one Aug 12, 2012

I've only ever seen Americans do that. I could be an Irish-Lithuanian-Spanish-Scottish-Russian-Australian-Romanian-English-Arab. And God knows what else I could dig up if I tried hard enough. Now how stupid does that sound?

~DawnsBreak Aug 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I try to distance myself from my... er... countrymen. I mean, have you seen America's idiot population lately?

~pink-anthony Jul 27, 2012

I'm Irish, and hearing "Oh you're from IIIIIIII-ER-LAND? Why, I'm Irish-American myself!" annoys me. We've had a lot of tourists here lately, most of which are American, and they love claiming they're coming back to the homeland or some shit.

If you know nothing about the culture, the language or the way of life, and have never experienced it, then you can fuck off with your title. I have Spanish relatives about two generations back, but I only mention it if the subject of conversation happens to be ancestry.

~kkofthefunkoff Jul 27, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I'm Half French. Mom was born in the South of France(I can't spell city name properly), met Dad as an exchange student(she was)

^neurotype Jul 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

It is fucking adorable when Americans are like MY FAMILY WAS POLISH, I AM 1/16 POLISH NOW I EAT PIEROGI.

~Razzl3erry Jul 26, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I'm a Polish-Irish-Swedish-Russian-American, AND I WANT TO BE ADDRESSED AS SUCH.

_{I totally agree with you}

~Keytarist Jul 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Adding to what ~GoGo-T-W said, I have an Indian friend who was born in Tanzania, and she lived there for, I think, four years before she moved to the states.

~shininginthedarkness Jul 26, 2012

I don't think everyone in the US should have to ditch their ethnicities and unique cultures. I LIKE a bunch of cultural diversity, and I don't quibble about what words people use to describe themselves.
It is kind of tiresome for people to harp on ethnicities when they've lost all ties to the place, but that's a different issue.

(My husband has to explain his family's ethnicity all the time, because people ask him WHERE ARE YOU FROM all the time. Is he supposed to say NOWHERE, I'M JUST A REGULAR AMERICAN? Well, truthfully, he was born 2 miles from here, but that's not what they're asking. They want to find out if he's a muslim so they know whether or not to hate him. My town kind of sucks. This got a bit off topic, didn't it?)

~GoGo-T-W Jul 26, 2012

I heard of a white guy who was born and raised in Africa who liked to call himself African-American.

~Fivefingersandapen Jul 26, 2012

My favorite is when people say, "I'm half Jewish!" And stuff like that. It pisses me off for so many reasons.

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