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Funkdamental posted...

This is what I want to ask about the sense of American identity and heritage. For every American, there has to be a point where you if you trace your family's history in the United States back far enough, you reach Year Zero: the point when they first arrived as settlers or immigrants. For some of you, that might be half a dozen generations ago; for others, it might be only half a dozen years.

Do you feel that the whole of American history -- colonial, revolutionary, independent -- is your history? Or, if your family arrived in the US as recently as the 1930s (for example), do you feel that your "national" history as an American dates back only as far as your family's arrival and prior to that, your "national" history was not American but perhaps European?

I ask this because it's always seemed a little odd to me how people can adopt the entirety of their county's history as their own when their family arrived from a different country maybe only three or four generations ago. A sense of "roots" is a complex thing, I guess.

That being the case no where has culture except Africa then.
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