Is "American" an Ethnicity? 

So let it be written, so let it be done.

One can only hope...

Cant wait for him to make a video on Dixies lol

inshallah

Nate Murdoch wait until the aliens land

Jug Boyz Ent. Hahaha its a Catholic thing ;)

Lol my partner is Irish/Italian and we are in NYC/NJ

Here in Trashachusetts, too.

Hiberno-Italians, Mick-Slicks, Potato Greasers, Molly Wops, Guinea Jigs, Freckled Guidos... I'm out of names

same thing here in montreal, canada. French, Irish and Italians mixed because they are catholics. The english rarely mixed with the main population

Its literally the same here in Germany with the Bavarians...

Same as teachers, SJW's and vegans.

plus the six gun and ten gallon hat and pickup truck is a dead giveaway.

Remember the Alamo.

@@Pfsif can you imagine a Texan vegan SJW teacher?

Missed opportunity!

He was too excited!

For Brazil is the typical white, portuguese, catholic descendant.

@@saintpinewood562 Brazil doesn't have a racial mayority, whites are short from 50%.

@@jascrandom9855 but for the white brazilians that's true.

Yeah I know right my friend says his girlfriend is Brazilian and I’m like nah she’s Portuguese

@G Leon Then you would have other ethnicities involved.

Apparently people apply political connotation to his videos. I don't get it. Ethnography is interesting both as a subject and politically/socially, but for God's sake this channel isn't meant to be a commentary on these issues.

Fall on "deaf" ears... fun facts, are Deaf nations/cultures ethnicities? docdro.id/lPFaVYg

@John Hillman Read the linked paper.

William Schutter Count on it Will

@John Hillman Yeah, no, I get the "deaf" thing was a joke, but I thought it was a cool segue into an interesting topic, one few know about. Also, if you like that article, I have several more sources for you to check out :)

The Spanish will dominate

Well German is most common ancestry in US.

@@AFT_05G only because British ancestries are massively underreported, due to the history of the UK and America, also English Americans probably were the easiest and most accepted of migrants to settle in America, they were the largest group of settlers from the 16th century up until the late 18 century, also take into account the birth rates then, as stated above, if you go by the 1980 census English Americans would still be the majority! They don't report their ancestry as much as other groups such as the German or Irish Americans

@Héctor Santa Ana if you take the figures from the 1980 census, English Americans would still outnumber Germans, I have both ancestries! Its well known that many people identify with other ancestries without even knowing they have English or Scots Irish which by the way is mainly English and Scottish! The English were the founding European migration!

@Héctor Santa Ana you care, clearly you keep on commenting 🤷‍♂️😂... History speaks for itself, regardless of what you claim 🤦‍♂️ have a nice day!

"boring old white" How is being white boring? lmfao

@YggdrasilAE Between Picts, Vikings, Huns, and Celts you sound pretty interesting, lol.

The census sent my address some creepy questions about who was living in my house, about a month ago, with threats that it was federaI law that I should fill it out. I chose hominid, as my race.

@@Not_An_Alien yeah, they always say that 'fillout or go to jail stuff.'

Scandinavia and senegalese. How long is your sausage???

I think it’s mostly that the U.K. has more successful settler colonies that developed into developed states then the French or Germans. France didn’t really do settler colonies that much (except Quebec which got absorbed into a British colony).

@@skysthelimitvideos Now you mention it, you have a valid point, especially when we take Spanish and Portuguese settled nations into account

I think it’s because British people who moved into the bigger former British colonies like Australia, the US and Canada feel a more seamless cultural transition. Also, those former colonies are fairly quick to disassociate themselves with “Mother Britannia”. For the French and the Germans, they were “foreigners” from day one, but for Scots moving to America, for example, shared language and history makes the transition more fluid. I know quite a few Americans with British parents, none of them feel/nor do they identify as “culturally”/“ethnically” British.

A lot of German, French etc. Americans do identify as American first and foremost though.

My theory is that people don't identify as English because it's so common and not an interesting thing to choose. Like, in America there's a big problem with people with one Irish grandfather obsessing over being Irish. It wouldn't matter if every other grandparent is completely English, there's a good chance they'll put down Irish as their ethnicity. This holds true for other things as well. If you have ancestors that have lived in America for over 200 years they're probably completely English, but it's been so long that you probably aren't keeping track of that anymore, so you just look at the more recent German grandparent.

It was also played earlier, around the beginning. But yes, I loved it too, the most american tune/song in my opinion

Inbred banjo music playing in the background...

@@jaimepuig2258 no banjos, we're Baptist, so no alcohol as well.

So you know ALL of your and your wife's ancestors? I don't think so.

@@chocomanger6873 I do, she's Mormon. But thanks for showing your ignorance.

@@pastorclay82 No, you don't. You can only go back so far, and some branches you can't go as far as others. There is definitely no way that ALL of your ancestors are from a 50 mile distance from that border. I don't know why you called it a radius, as a radius is part of a circle, and a border is a long line, not a point. Anyway, obviously people would've come from other areas. Human beings didn't first appear on the planet within 50 miles of the English-Scottish border. Even the Mormons know THAT.

@DearlyBelovedofGod ❤💯

Your nationality is an american , but you re not ethnic an american , USA is an confederation of many ethnicities without an official leanguage the most spoken leanguages are English and Spanish both European leanguages.

Alexandru then who is an “ethnic American”

@@mri127 The natives tribes who lived in america before europeans arrived

@@alexandru9742 if it's like that then nobody is native to any place, humans have been moving since the beginning, like here in Tanzania the last tribe to migrate in is Ngoni originally from South Africa

It becomes even more confused when hyphenated terms such as "Japanese-American" are compounds of national demonyms. Additionally, genetic groups sometimes differentiate themselves via religious backgrounds such as Pakistani who are predominantly Muslim when it was split from India who are predominantly Hindu, but the majority groups in both countries are genetically Indo-Aryan and even share cultural similarities. Another example are the Catholic Irish (Republic of Ireland) versus the Protestant Irish (Northern Ireland) - same genetics, same small land mass, same culture but different religion. Are they the same ethnicity? Many more examples abound when speaking of the people that make up the variety of states in modern Germany.

The hyphenization is Heritage-Nationality. It's the nation of heritage that leads to further breaking down of one's ethnicity. For example, Irish-American - American is what you are, Ireland is where you came from and then are you Northern/Southern, Protestant/Catholic. Green/Orange, Black/White, Gaelic/Celtic, etc. The ethnic delineations are usually only discussed amongst others of the same heritage as you discuss history or work out if your families are related. Humans are tribal - and we'll break ourselves down into 100's of groups depending on the conversations. Family, town, state, region, nation, hemisphere, sports team affiliation, high school, college. We can't stop ourselves! LOL

I see what you're saying. You mean if say Africans move to Germany...then next generation they migrate to America. Would they be African-German-American? No. the answer is no. Because they were never "German" to begin with. Germanic peoples are ethnically European. Germans are the indigenous European peoples of their homeland Germany. So an African living in Germany is simply an African with German citizenship. "British" is not an ethnicity. It is a Nationality. Made up of English, Scottish, Irish indigenous peoples. So an African in England could call himself "British" but they would still be African and not English since they are not European.

@@bellejolie2506 And that leads to what makes America so unique. Everyone that moves here can become an American. All they need to do is embrace the Constitution and our fundamental belief that certain things are granted by our creator and shall not be taken away by anyone.

@@jeandiatasmith4512 The US isn't unique in that regard. Countries like Australia, Canada etc, have the same philosophy of having mass migration of different ethnicities they hope to assimilate into one nation too.

I agree. When I am asked to put my ethnicity on forms, I put American as my ethnicity because my ancestors have been in this country since the late 1500's. There are least 17 million of us who identify specifically as Ethnically American because of this ancestry and because our culture seperate from that of the English and Germans all other peoples. I was part of a ground breaking research project on this. And the way we defined Ethnic Americans was that all people who were living in the 13 colonies up to the Mississippi River are counted as Ethnic Americans because they are descended from ancestors who lived on that territory before or during the American Revolution, supported American independence and were part of the ratification of the US Constitution and establishment of the United States of America, the first independent country in the Americas. There are a lot of tribes from that part of the country and people don't realize those tribes are very much intermixed with the Whites who established America. These tribes would be: Cherokee 1449888 Chickasaw 72601 Chippewa 206224 Choctaw 295373 Creek 119850 Delaware 30494 Iroqouis 107839 Lumbee 81645 Menominee 13207 Osage 23938 Ottawa 19082 Potawatomi 37640 Sioux 220739 Unaffiliated Indigenous 1178535 (These are Whites and Blacks with ancestry so far back it either doesn't show up on DNA tests or just barely shows up and or it so small they don't qualify for tribal membership. But they are still Indigenous because of their ancestry.) Total Indigenous Ethnic Americans 3,857,055 Other groups that people don't know are included are the Cajun 91,000, Pennsylvania Germans 229,000 , Scotch Irish 2.5 million (if they were recent immigrants from Northern Ireland the term would be Scots Irish. Scotch Irish is a uniquely American term for what is really an American ethnic group.) The next group that was included are all descendants of American slaves. There are 37 million of these. Altogether we found there actually 61.5 million people who qualified as Ethnically American, only 17 million of whom identified specifically as Ethnic American while the rest identified with ethnicities native to America. That's 18.5% of the entire US population. Now when you count only the Ethnic Americans, what we found was that while they make up 5% of the entire US population, they actually make up the largest ethnic group native to the United States of America at 30%. There are more self identified Ethnic Americans than Cherokee and Navajo combined. They also outnumber the Mexicans but not the entire Hispanic population of the US. But if you include not just self identified Ethnic Americans but also the other groups on our list that qualify as Ethnically American, you find that all Ethnic Americans when combined do in fact outnumber the Hispanics in the United States and here is the surprise: Ethnic Americans are one of America's fastest growing ethnic groups today. But you wouldn't know it because people are pretending we don't exist.

Part of my bloodline can be traced to colonial America like Salem Massachusetts and New Netherland. I also have roots in Canada.

@@rebeccacanales You’re absolutely right. I’ve taken two different DNA tests and I do have small traces of Indigenous and African ancestry and I even have documented Cherokee, Powhatan, and Lenape ancestry. I’m even descended from Free People of Color who lived in North Carolina and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries who migrated into Appalachia in the 19th century because the racial caste system wasn’t as rigid. However, the one thing I disagree with you on is that Old Stock Americans and Afro-Americans being part of the same ethnic group. Afro-Americans are a separate ethnic group with their own distinct history, culture, and identity and haven’t really been considered part of the American Nation until very recently.

@@Euro-GaNationalist-hv1on Cool! I have roots going back to Plymouth and Jamestown and many, if not most of my ancestors have lived in the Southern Colonies. Especially Virginia.

@@kcirtapelyk6060 Thank you for sharing your perspective on the distinct identities of Old Stock Americans and Afro-Americans. You've raised some very important points regarding the unique histories and cultures of these groups. Indeed, it's crucial to recognize and respect the separate journeys and experiences that have shaped each group's identity. However, it's also noteworthy to consider the deep roots both groups have in the fabric of American history. Ancestors of both Old Stock Americans and Afro-Americans were present in the United States before the American Revolution, actively contributing to the struggle for American independence and freedom. This shared historical connection is significant. Furthermore, throughout American history, both groups have been integral in shaping major events. From Bacon's Rebellion to the Civil War, from the Spanish Flu outbreak to the Great Depression, and from World War I and II to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, individuals from both communities have made substantial contributions. Most recently, both groups have been navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, adding yet another chapter to this shared history. While acknowledging the distinct cultural and historical identities of Old Stock Americans and Afro-Americans, it's also valuable to recognize these shared experiences. They underscore that, despite differences, there is a common thread of resilience, struggle, and contribution to the nation's history. This shared legacy does not diminish the uniqueness of each group's identity but rather highlights a complex, interconnected American story where separate journeys intertwine within a broader narrative. The definition of "Ethnic American" captures the essence of a multifaceted identity that is deeply rooted in the historical tapestry of the United States. This term encompasses a diverse range of ethnic groups, each with its unique ancestral lineage in the Eastern United States that traces back to the period well before the American War of Independence. Despite the diversity in their origins, these groups are united by their participation in the pivotal events and epochs that have shaped the nation's history. This advanced concept of Ethnic Americans as a collective recognizes that, while each group has experienced American history through its unique lens and circumstances, they collectively contribute to the national narrative. This includes their roles in major historical events, their resilience in the face of challenges, and their contributions to the nation's development. While it is true that both Ethnic Americans and Afro Americans are separate groups who experienced our common history from different perspectives, both are native to the United States and have much in common. This shared historical experience, despite being lived differently by each group, forms a common thread that binds these ethnicities together under the broader identity of Ethnic American. It highlights that the American story is not a singular narrative but a rich mosaic of stories, experiences, and perspectives that collectively contribute to the nation's heritage and identity. This was true even before the mass waves of immigrants that began in the 1870’s and the more recent waves of immigration. We were already a diverse ethnic grouping long before the Hispanics, Asians, and others ever arrived here. Recognizing Ethnic Americans in this way allows for a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of American history. It acknowledges the complexity and richness of the nation's past, honoring the distinct contributions of each group while also celebrating their shared role in the American experience. In conclusion, while we must appreciate the unique experiences and perspectives of different groups, recognizing the shared chapters in our history can foster a deeper understanding of the diverse and rich tapestry that makes up the Ethnic American identity. And we have to remember that we have not only a shared history but we also have shared ancestry in many cases because the two groups also have a history of mixing with each other.

Yes

Mr Science omg yes.. they are some of the first people on earth

@@selendriamuganogo7077 aren't koisan

Yes

This.

Привіт! :)

​@@danukil7703 Cześć!

At it's best, America allows people who were at each other's throats in the old country to become friends and family. The holdouts, mostly of the Trumpist Ethnicity, are making themselves so obnoxious and degenerate that they will not have to worry about mixing as nobody will want to mix with them.

poland is heaven right?

@@JMM33RanMA Uh, what? Why bring up anything about Trump when my comment had nothing to do with him in the first place? If anything, people like you are the obnoxious ones, only good at complaining about things that are irrelevant to a discussion.

Thanks bro 👍🏻 Same goes to our brothers and sister in Mexico

Mexico is cool too, would love to visit one day

Carlos Andres Muñoz Alatorre Greetings! ❤️

Agreed. As a Texan, I have always been fully aware of the importance of Mexican people and culture in contributing to the flavor (literally in the case of the food) of our state - and obviously the rich history and overall culture. Much respect, ya'll take care down there!

I wish you well. And I hope the future will be brighter then today.

Dad's side is heavily English with good chunk Pennsylvania Dutch. My surname is an anglicized German name.

same here but i think its appropriate to call myself American because i am generations removed from those ancestors

Mine have been in America since the 1700s too. Mine were South Carolina and Mississippi/Louisiana settlers.

I'm Italian and Italian we came in 1840. Forza Italia !

I am Pontic,Cretan and Pomak and I found an ancestor from 1650 called Bakir Bey.

You Canadians need to stand up to your treasonous government.

Jack - What part of Alberta are you from ? Born in Calgary here (with some family roots in Crowsnest Pass) raised in BC Interior, currently in Edmonton.

@@randalljackson4574 Born in Stettler, "The Heart of AB." Teen age years in Edmonchuck. Then Calgary, Kaslo, BC and 24 years in Pincher Creek AB.

Kack-kun sama

Based Anglo-Irish identifier

No he should not.

@@sircammockcongo9729 Could be interesting

Whites have different hair colors and can change hair color through age.

Flaming assassin imagine the comments? 😂😂😂😂

What is there to talk about. Africans have dark hair. Whites have other colors as well.

True

Ethnicity isn’t like gender identity, it’s not something you can make up or feel like and it’s not cultural, it’s DNA. 🙄 If you are mixed European ethnicity and cannot relate to the mixed regions of your ethnicity, it’s irrelevant. I know Americans who have mixtures of 3 or 4 Asian ethnicities, blacks who have multiple African and European ethnicities in their DNA, so are they also considered American ethnicity? Is a 5th generation Asian American, now not ethnically Asian but instead “American” ethnically? What about black Americans? I think RU-vidrs need STOP fabricating untruths or misinformation, it’s just making more people ignorant 🙄

@@calidreams5379 DNA is not what makes up an ethnicity. For example, if you're born a Chinese girl then adopted to Norwegian as a child, and grow up with Norwegian parents but looking like a Chinese girl - then you are ethnically Norwegian. You might be called Chinese race, and that's why we don't use the term race anymore, because it's not really relevant to society except how someone looks. Only Americans still use the term race widely, but Americans are very silly in a lot of ways(road signs, measuring systems etc). But yeah, DNA does not have anything to do with ethnicity.

You Europeans are so sensitive when it comes to this😂 Maybe don't worry about what people a world away identify as ethnically.

Definitely a group that has piqued my interest and I will do a video analysis over soon

@@Masaman can't wait to see it😁

I ja jedva čekam video o Vlasima.

Peter There’s no point trying to trace a nation of origin anyway. There was no concept of nationhood in Africa when the slave trade was going. Not until post European Imperialism, which was a solid century after the slave trade was dead.

@@garretsheets3080 Africans still had an ethnic identity, it was just confined to a tribe/clan, not to a nation. Either way, since that identity was purged from them by slavery and by the passage of time, there was a need to create a new ethnic identity to take it's place.

Yes Yes someone that gets it! Alaskan Natives Hawaiians Samoans Chamorro Carolinians

The natives have millenia on everyone when it comes to America. Crazy thing is though, that African-Americans have had there ties to any old roots severed so deeply it straight up cannot be recovered basically. America is all they know... this is a very unique place to be I can't think of any other ethnic group with a similar situation.

Yep, I'm ethnically Southern.

Nationality/Nation etymologically speaking refers to a people/ethnic group. No one can magically become a part of a nationality by moving there or getting some piece of paper that says they're a citizen for example because it is supposed to refer to your heritage.

@@MotiveToKill so then does the American nationality=ethnic group?

@@kucingcat8687 Actual Americans as an ethnic group is a thing I'd say, it is consists of pan-European people (Europeans mixing with other Europeans).

@@MotiveToKill but they doesn't even have a homogeneous culture and blood

@@kucingcat8687 European culture, although different ethnically speaking, is still a wide umbrella culture of its own. Just like European DNA, which when looking at Principal Component Analysis of autosomal SNPs we will see that European DNA (including Americans, Canadians, Australians, etc) all cluster together and separated from other groups such as Arabs/Semites, Asians, Africans, Amerindians, Australian Aboriginals, etc. All groups cluster separate from each other and are very distinct from each other despite having small differences among ethnic groups of the same overarching category.

Marc RJ yes this 👍👍

Low country gang rise up

The “hispanic” and Latino” labels need to do disappear. Also, “African American” should be changed to just “African,” and white to “European.”

@@TheUnstoppable987 African-American should be for the descendants of slaves. Mainly because there ties to any old roots are so far gone and lost to time that America is basically all they know at this point. Where as a Nigerian immigrant can at least know where he comes from, "Nigerian-American"

Skampis why not?

you can't talk about anything there

WTF why ?

@@leondenizard3800 Any form of opinion that pretty much is against the current state policy is more or less against the law here.

@Skampis ha ok,its kind like my country (brazil),here if you say you are pround to be black its ok but if you say that are pround to be white (or any other race) is racist....... i hate it,black persons in Brazil are so fucking anoyng they think that everything is racism and they think they are superior even they are 8% of Brazil population PS:Sorry for these outburst LOL XD (and no i am not racist thx)

No, America is a continent, not a country

Is Belgian not an ethnicity then? Please elaborate

Some nationalities are considered to be ethnic groups, like the French or the English. Even new world nations are considered ethnic groups, like Mexicans, or Jamaicans. Why are we not American?

Tritone The former two are ethnicities because the people in/from those countries are indigenous to that region, are mostly homogeneous, and have a history and culture in that country spanning over 1000s of years. The latter two are not ethnicities and are instead nationalities and cultural groups. Most Mexican people are basically half Indigenous American and half Spaniard (sometimes with a little bit of Portuguese as well), with there also being small amounts of African, Middle Eastern, and even Asian admixture in them, with the amount of said admixture depending on the region, while most Jamaicans are West African, specifically Ghanaian, with some people having East Asian/Indian or Indigenous (Taino, Arawak, or Carib.) ancestry. The vast amount of admixture present in Mexicans, and the population of Jamaican people being nearly entirely from Africa make it so that those two places are more or less melting pots of different ethnic backgrounds who share one culture with each other rather than a single ethnicity.

@@FragRevel This argument again. In depends on the context. "American" means the same as United Statestian" in most contexts, including this one.

That's is extremely rare. How did you manage that?

My family also were from Virginia in the 1630s but moved out west manifest destiny now I'm a 4th generation Alaskan if not counting my small Alaska native ancestory

Quite literally the old stock of Americans. Very cool!

What about Whites?

@@curtiswilliams8285 I mean that's straight up what a "African-American" is. It's not just a generic term for any African descent person in America, its specifically the descendants of the enslaved. They are one group that is in a very unique place for sure... if a nigerian immigrates to america i'd call him nigerian-american, not african-american.

@@MotiveToKill Whites whose families have lived here since before the revolution(aka Old Stock Americans) are definitely a distinct ethnic group separate from our cousins across the pond as we’ve developed our own distinct history, culture, and identity over the centuries.

God Bless USA!

“Almost everyone in the US has an English ancestor in some form” not true

Its true for everyone who arrived especially before the 60s and 70s. Most Americans come from mixed ancestral backgrounds and the English are among those ancestral components. The only way a person in the US would not have any English ancestry at all is if they arrived more recently such as after the year 2000 especially. But if you've been here for centuries then you have English ancestors as well as other mixed ancestry from other groups. For example most Blacks have English ancestry on the White side of their ancestral trees.

@@rebeccacanales I’m telling you the %s and numbers you are giving are off

@@rebeccacanales what exact % of American citizens would you say have a full 100% English great grandparent? I would say 50-60% of U.S. citizens at most

@@danielalbo4994 I'll be quiet honest here and say I did not look into percentages because percentages can vary based on how far back the ancestry goes. For example, you assumed I would only go as far back as a grandparent or great grandparent. When I say everyone pretty much has English ancestry if they've been here long enough I am referring to ancestors as far back as 5th, 6th, and even 7th generation great grand parentage. Basically around the 1700s. With all the intermarrying and interbreeding between the different people coming here it's not difficult to imagine that if you go back far enough, nearly all families who have been here a long time will have an English ancestors somewhere on their tree generations back even if everyone else on the tree is something else.

You're in a big city. You have no idea who or what Americans are.

It's Okay To Be Clown Pilled Could you elaborate further? I’m not quite understanding why you said that.

Mexican is also an ethnicity though. Mexico has it's own cultural traditions such as music, festivals and cuisine for Mexicans be considered an ethnicity. Mexicans can be of any race but share the same traditions for the most part.

@@elemanuel6079 In that aspect you're right, As a Mexican man, in my case I am Spanish blood mixed with French blood and a little from the Natives...As you say the traditions and culture mark the heritage of a nation and I agree with you....

Disgusting. America will never mix.

@Paul Pape Productions already has what? Men and women born and raised in the USA can use American as his or her ethnicity?

Didn’t we uh..........didn’t we make Hispanics or some shit?

Based on the defintion of ethnicity. It already is one

I agree

"MANDALoRIAN''

The Appalachians have been there for as long as Hispanics have been in Central and South America. American is an ethnicity for those who have been here for centuries. You can't call Hispanics an ethnicity without calling Americans an ethnicity since both have been here for an equal amount of time and both have been separated from the parent cultures for an equal amount of time. What your friends were talking about was that they were American by nationality which may be true if they are citizens. It really depends on the context. If they immigrated here or their parents immigrated here they can only be American by citizenship but they cannot be American by ethnicity. And a lot of people get confused by that.

@@ThorRandulfsson Indeed.

Alright, I’m Celtic-Slavic-Nordic-Germanic-Latin (European)-Cherokee-American.

@Armando Martinez Many folks do 😕... That is what... it was coined as 🤦‍♂️.

Nah

He's half Black American.

@@Intellectualrigor I think he’s like a quarter or less actually.

@Мастурбек Кумысович, you know Black Americans aren't African, right?

That would be interesting. Our African decent families are mostly from the eastern coast. There are probably some very interesting stories.

@@Intellectualrigor Well their ancestors go back to Africa way more earlier, even for the Caucasians.

Dairy Peak! RL How many children do Amish couples have in your area? I’m always curious

Lmao

If you had the 'typical' ancestry of someone from the mid-"Appalachia" area - you'd also have English ancestry.

@@rogerwilco2558 Fair point. I thought without doubt I'd end up being descended from the May family of the Kent area in SE England. When I had everything looked up though, it came out how I explained up top. I guess I was referring to the predominant either Scottish or Scots/Irish stock that many people in my general area come from when I said that about having the typical ancestry for my area.

Brendon when did your ancestors move to america then

@@aukusti3761 Over a century ago

@PFC Lad American in the past was a much more concrete identity. but thanks to the 1965 immigration act, the identity has been watered down. I feel little in common with most who come to the country today.

@PFC Lad I know it's my nationality. I'm talking about identity.

jack60091 pretty much

I'm sure 50% of your Ukrainians are not original, because some of them are usually Ukrainian-Jews who directly identify as Ukrainian-American and that's the same as Russian-American / all of the eastern Europeans are mostly Jewish and identify from one of the ethnicity in some of these countries.

We already exist.

That is interesting. Where i come from in South America we are taught that Americans are anyone who live in the continent that was named América since 1507, 100 years before British settlers arrived.

@@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020 I heard the people in South America call us United Statians lol

@@darius5396 lol yeah but that’s just cos it translates like that in Spanish. In truth , we acknowledge everyone from the northernmost point in Canada to the southern tip of chile as Americans. I guess it’s just the way we were taught.

Technically that is right. I never did like that we are American by nation and continent. It just seems confusing in general.

@@darius5396 yeah you’re right, it can be confusing,

Too bad Western Europe is trying to pretend they are the USA now which they are not and which is BULLSHIT. Especially the UK and Germany. :( :( :(

@@stephendise9006 I think western Europe ESPECIALLY the UK is trying way to hard to be American without even realizing it

You guys teamed up with the Midwest during the civil war. All that effort and victory just for both regions to commit suicide and leave the south as the only coherent part of the country. Tragic honestly

Caucasian and Hispanic aren’t races

So you are half Ethnic American and half Dominican with a bit of Greek and Hispanic thrown in. This would make the US one of your ancestral homelands. I encourage you to embrace it.