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> heritage Americans I'm curious as to how you'd define a 'heritage' American.
by arunabha 10mo ago
> heritage Americans
I'm curious as to how you'd define a 'heritage' American.
- JuniperMesos 10mo agoNo ties to a foreign country within living memory.
- ceejayoz 10mo agoWhat counts as a tie? The current President is married to a foreign citizen. Does that count?
- BigTTYGothGF 10mo agoWhen my dad remarried, my stepmother was a citizen of a different country, does that retroactively make me no longer a "heritage American"? If they had had kids, would my hypothetical half-sibling be a "heritage American"? If the answer is "no", would it change anything if I told you they would have been (like me) descended from a long line of US citizens going back to the 1790s? Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".
- JuniperMesos 10mo ago> When my dad remarried, my stepmother was a citizen of a different country, does that retroactively make me no longer a "heritage American"? If they had had kids, would my hypothetical half-sibling be a "heritage American"? No, because of the ties to a foreign country through your stepmother. > Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American". No, although if it's only one great-grandmother among 8 I'm not super worried about your mom being more loyal to Norway than the US. Also realistically Norway today has many of the same issues with culturally-foreign immigrants that the US does, so maybe that wouldn't amount to all that much in the unlikely case that your mom did strongly identify with Norwegian cultural norms.
- ceejayoz 10mo agolol you just reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule … but even nastier!