An American is an American , no other nation is at par with its values and generosity.
The same can be said of hyphenated wives.
I have said for most of my life that a Hyphenated-American is by definition a RACIST in it’s Purest form.
It seems that people retaining/using the hyphenated identity want to convey that they are in some way distinct from garden variety, conventional ‘American’.
There are tremendous incentives for them to do this.
A hyphenated identity presumes/gets special consideration in our system, material and otherwise.
Also, hyphenated names convey a minority status, which is pure gold in our “victimhood”/”gimme stuff free” American society!!! (It is instantly and demonstrably effective with ill-educated and otherwise Anti-American types)
My grandparents came here in the early ‘20’s and couldn’t become or think of themselves as ‘American’ soon enough. It seems that some of these families competed with each other in how quickly they could assimilate and become ‘like the Americans’. My grandmother told me, and she MEANT IT, that the first thing she did when she arrived was, to kiss the ground she stood on. Her statement is NOT unique with the old timers I know.
It was first on the list - take another peek ;)
American first...european background second no hyphen needed.
I thought this article was going to be about Miami-Dade County, the ONLY county in the country with a hyphen. BTW, people who live here ALWAYS call is Dade County.
Agreed - good analysis.
There is however, a distinction. By nationality, loyalty, and upbringing, I am, and always will be, 100% AMERICAN.
That doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge my Italian, German, and Irish heritage. However, I don’t refer to myself as an “Italian-American” or any of the others in a normal context.
As an Appalachian-American I resent this article.
Anyone who uses a hyphen to describe their nationality or name uses the primary part as the qualifier and is not committed to the later part.
“The author omits the main hyphenated group that still carries a chip on their shoulder and ensconced themselves mainly in the Democrat Party: The African-Americans!”
The author doesn’t want that sorry bastard Jesse Jack(off)son paying him a visit for some sort of shakedown...
Or any of lowlife Holder’s thugs.
While diversity is nice, the mindset that diversity is the underlying principle that must be celebrated above all else is destroying what makes us the United States of America. Thirteen generations of my ancestors were proud to call themselves American. I bristle at the platitude that “we are a nation of immigrants”. Hyphenating simply keeps us the “Divided States of America”.