I understood it, but when you throw in that statement I responded to, you open the door for every other group that later came to the US to begin exaggerating their role in the creation of this country, and that is the aim of an assortment of more recently arrived groups who constantly whine that their "contributions" to the US aren't sufficiently recognized.
Stressing irrelevant factors and exaggerating minor contributions of the later immigrants to the US has become a major occupation for a wide range of ethnic interest groups. US history will be rewritten as to have little relationship to reality if it is allowed to happen.
Not at all. You sound like an English chauvinist. The English suppressed the Scots and Irish in this country for generations. My point was not about racial superiority, rewriting history or anything of the kind. It was that all peoples have an equal shot at opportunity in a land that does not privilege people by race or heritage. That said, I do NOT favor the rewriting of history. My own people would be trashed by such.