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What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech c

What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech companies, I am talking about your grand-grand parents who came here a few generations ago) How do you justify the people who let you ancestors to immigrate there being Americans whose work... (replace the rest with your own comment!)

thecreamedcorn 6y ago
50% of the US population came from the original founding stock of the country in 1990. America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.
- non-entity 6y ago
  50% isnt even a majority, assuming this is a real statistic and not something pulled out of your ass.
- DanBC 6y ago
  > America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British I find it difficult to understand how we can describe immigrant colonisers as "not immigrants".
  - site-packages1 6y ago
    > ...British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values. Sounds like white, English-speaking, Christian == colonizer, and anyone else would be immigrants. :/
    - damnyou 6y ago
      Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.
- damnyou 6y ago
  50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.
techCEO4356 6y ago
Your barely legible english is pretty much making OP's point.
- the_h1b1 6y ago
  Do you have a copy of the post content by the poster above thecreamedcorn? Will be quoting it for context. It's very annoying when a post gets flagged and becomes hidden and not even viewable.
dang 6y ago
Please don't feed the trolls. This is in the site guidelines, albeit with softer language: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

thecreamedcorn 6y ago

50% of the US population came from the original founding stock of the country in 1990. America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.

non-entity 6y ago
50% isnt even a majority, assuming this is a real statistic and not something pulled out of your ass.
DanBC 6y ago
> America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British I find it difficult to understand how we can describe immigrant colonisers as "not immigrants".
- site-packages1 6y ago
  > ...British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values. Sounds like white, English-speaking, Christian == colonizer, and anyone else would be immigrants. :/
  - damnyou 6y ago
    Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.
damnyou 6y ago
50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.

techCEO4356 6y ago

Your barely legible english is pretty much making OP's point.

the_h1b1 6y ago
Do you have a copy of the post content by the poster above thecreamedcorn? Will be quoting it for context. It's very annoying when a post gets flagged and becomes hidden and not even viewable.

dang 6y ago

Please don't feed the trolls. This is in the site guidelines, albeit with softer language: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.