The Irish, or rather, most of them, are not alone in this incomprehension…I must confess. America is a country which, though having tried to explore her for about forty years now, I am still struggling to comprehend🙂
See? I’m stupid, I think 🙁
Not stupid at all. America has always, always been a very diverse nation and there is always something more to see, to learn, or to find out about. People come here from everywhere. Our cuisine has elements from everywhere, and so does our language and our music. But we are uniquely under the same umbrella: the rule of law—until recently, when Democrats gained too much power and began making up the rules as they go along instead of by the established constitutional processes.
Only racists see America as "whites, and then everybody else." I am in my 70s, but I went to school even back in the 50s with kids of many ethnicities and races, including Native American, African-American, Hispanic, Chinese, Jews and Christians, and many distinct types of Europeans. From the beginning, people of many races, religions and belief systems intermingled. Only the haters banded together, formed the Democrat party, objected to everything decent or true, and divided people into groups that they rigidly defined.