[CMAC51]

The unique element of the US culture comes from the fact that we are a nation of immigrants. The United States of America is a country where if you wish you can become an American. Try moving to France and becoming a Frenchman. it doesn't work that way. Almost all other countries are the same. If you aren't native, you aren't really "true blue".

In the United States, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, etc, if you wish you can become a "true blue" American. All that hyphenation crap is a personal choice and a symptom of how our culture is under attack.

The fact that we adopt from everyones heritage, from October Fest to St. Patrick's Day to Cinco-de-Mayo highlights that culture.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The unique element of the US culture comes from the fact that we are a nation of immigrants. The United States of America is a country where if you wish you can become an American. Try moving to France and becoming a Frenchman. it doesn't work that way. Almost all other countries are the same. If you aren't native, you aren't really "true blue".

Yes. And even people who are born in a given country may not be accepted in it. I give you the Turks born in Germany of guest-worker parents . . . not actually German, but fluent native-speakers of the language (and no other). I could introduce you to one such--English is his third, not his second and certainly not his first, language. But he found a home in NY city, where "everyone is from somewhere else, and nobody thinks anything of it."

A "Turk" who loves Turkey but considers himself an American with a German accent. As soon as he can get naturalized . . .