Mine came from Missouri, but I'm not clinging onto St. Louis all that hard.
Being American is an identity. Please drop the hyphens.
Being American is an identity.Yes, and a big part of that identity is the fact that we are the first nation in history based on a set of ideas instead of simply on a geographic location.
Part of that identity is the fact that our ancestors came from many places around the world to build the greatest nation in said world.
As Americans, we have these ideas in common, and many other things as well. One of those of course is our national language, which more recent immigrant "activists" are wrong to ignore or disparage the importance of.
But America is not a collective. It is a confederation of individuals. And yes, the national origins of our families are part of what makes us individuals, and there is absolutely positively nothing wrong with recognizing and celebrating them.
-Eric