Should americans prioritise their common colonial ancestry and legacy

[Mortimer]

Why or why should they or should they not?​

Does it even matter?

Im inspired by two things to ask

First is the amerimutt concept that americans have ancestry from every part of europe

Second is the movie Gran Torino i watched yesterday and all the cool the white guys were irish polak with surname Kowalski a name which is not anglo or anglicanised like usually (the main role Clint played) and italian and all were catholic

While its true that white americans have ancestry from different countries in europe i think the core germanic and anglo saxon backgound is underestimated and its not only about the actual ancestry they might have but also the concept of themselfes and ideology they themselfes call themselfes mutts and such because they want to be a nation of immigrants and inclusive of everyone but they could as well prioritise their common colonial ancestry and legacy like obviously they speak english what does it matter if they are not hundred percent english

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Prioritize?

 

[Mortimer]

Prioritize?

Yes once it was expected from the germans during world war 2
They stopped speaking german and changed their names

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yes once it was expected from the germans during world war 2
They stopped speaking german and changed their names

Not sure where you are going with this, but I suspect it isn't good.
I will only say one thing - many Americans, if not most, can't accurately trace back their heritage.
For instance me - both sides of my family have German derived names. So therefore I am of German descent. Or am I?
Sort of. On one hand both my sides of the family did arrive to America from Germany.
On the other hand, that side of the family before actually came from farther north in Europe, in what is now Denmark/Norway/Sweden. They traveled to Germany to escape the Anglo-Saxon conflicts as well as persecutions and constant harassment from the Vikings.
My DNA is actually almost 90% northern Europe, not German. But for generations both sides lived in Germany.
In other words - it doesn't matter because during all of the wars of that era - people relocated constantly.

 

[Polishprince]

Americans come from all different ethnicities. England isn't the predominant ancestry at all, probably more from German or Irish or Scottish or Hispanic.

But we all speak a common language of English, except for a few hispanic dominated areas like East LA and East Harlem, where its important to know basic Spanish- and at least know how to greet someone in that lingo. "Hey ese, wassup Holmes"

 

[1srelluc]

Way ahead of ya.

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/european-ancestry-heritage-month.1159053/

 

[bendog]

Why or why should they or should they not?​

Does it even matter?

do we get our slaves back? Or at least reparations since we actually had OUT PROPERTY TAKEN BY THE FEDS WITHOUT COMPENSATION. jUST ASKING (-0

 

[InstantOn]

Angela Davis is descended from someone who arrived on the Mayflower.

 

[Doc7505]

Why or why should they or should they not?​

Does it even matter?

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[Failzero]

Yes once it was expected from the germans during world war 2
They stopped speaking german and changed their names

My ancestry was traced back to North Carolina in 1762 ( my dad did not go farther back to Europe for fear it might lead to Bavaria or another German Region and the Animosity towards Germany & Germans was still high in 1968