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Originally posted by ironman
You know what bothers me? US citizens calling themselves AMERICANS. Last time i checked, America wasn't a country but a continent, hence, ALL people who live in the continent called AMERICA is AMERICAN.
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I think people just say it like that because saying United Staters or United Statian or USer just doesnt sound good.
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Originally posted by Karby
it was a long time before blacks or any other ethnic group other than white could truly call themselves an 'American'.
...that was all..
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....and I think you missed my entire point. My point was: "White" is not an ethnic group. I used all those examples to show that other people with "white skin" or "pale skin" have been persecuted and shunned in the past due to their ETHNICITY. Like I said in my last post, your statement is perfectly fine if you say "It was a long time before any other ethnic group other than caucasians from Britain, Spain, or France could call themselves American"....but you didnt. You just said "white" as a general term for an ethnic group....