A discussion with rich historical perspective on who/what is "American"

[tobetrained]

@BlindRawFucker1 for myself, no knives to throw. Anyone across both continents are Americans.

But words can have multiple meanings too. Americans was a term designated by the British to those that migrated to their original American colonies, Canada was barely settled at the time and the Spanish/Portuguese dominated areas to the south of these colonies.

In this, It was a way to create a "they're not us" epithet applied to people who migrated by those that stayed in England/UK or even Europe more broadly.

It then became a term of achievement for those who came here starting in mid-19th century...in search for freedom. It is the rationale of this move that was the subject of the video and convo. What freedom had they been looking for and why.

[hntnhole]

33 minutes ago, NWUSHorny said:

America is a place, the United States of America is a country that was founded on an idealism.  

And, to hone the point a bit finer, unless one is a Native American, or of Native American ancestry, whose ancestors lived on this continent for millennia, we are all immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, whether by choice or by force.  Americans of African ancestry are, obviously, closer to being "real" Americans than those of us with nothing but pale, Caucasian blood in our veins.   

The false contrivance that "racism" depends on - the notion that only Caucasians are "real" Americans - therefore implies that there were zero "Americans" living on this continent prior to the arrival of the Europeans.  

One wonders if the apologists can possibly finagle the contrivances even more obtusely.  

[tobetrained]

20 minutes ago, hntnhole said:

Americans of African ancestry are, obviously, closer to being "real" Americans than those of us with nothing but pale, Caucasian blood in our veins.   

What does this quote mean?