Recca wrote:
Haha, how amusing! Well, I don't mean to offend anyone, but you all do realize that the only "true Americans" are the native Indians, right? You know, what the ones that were shot and killed and bruatally forced off their land by the American settlers? I'm sorry, but the Americans have committed too many crimes in the past against many people and always have tried to rewrite history afterwards. Remember, most "Americans" came from other countries such as England and France so that doesn't really make them Americans.
This raises an interesting point of discussion. Sometime after the Pangaea super-continent broke apart, the earliest humanoid migrants to reach the developing North and South American continents were very likely Eurasians who entered via the Bearing Sea landmass sometime prior to the last ice age.
The fossil record is unclear as to how many pre-Colombian peoples could have migrated from the opposite direction in Viking-style ships. Perhaps someday genetic profiling will become so sophisticated that we will be able to determine the melding process that made up what came to be called "American Indians". I would be curious to see someone accurately trace anthropological processes both before and since the height of the Clovis People, circa 12,000 B.C.
In the meantime, suggesting that one group of migrants from Eurasia has precedence over another, simply on the basis of the timing of their ancestors' arrival, would be like saying that the policy of the present county should judge the rights of its citizens differently, based upon how many generations a family line has resided on the actual real estate, or grant unequal rights depending upon whether a citizen is naturalized or native born.
In other words, Americans are so mixed together in the present nation, it's no longer important who our ancestors were, what race they claimed to be, or when and how they believed their people arrived here. What matters is our cohesiveness as a nation in the year 2010 and beyond. For eons, tribes, cultures, nations, and empires have shoved each other across all of the grubby little shattered chunks of Pangaea, redrawing maps with untold horrors, then forgetting most of these, conveniently or otherwise except in the case of that good old double standard.
Recca, if you can name one real country of clearly sovereign land with surveyed boundaries and an established government that America has defended from outside aggression or entered to overthrow a tyranny that threatened either its own population or contiguous nations, then remained to displace a significant stable (non-nomadic) population with hordes of American citizens, tell me where this place is, and I'll nominate to be the Great 51st State.
BTW, America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator, later absorbed by those imperialistic Italians. Oh, wait. We can't say that. Eurasians are immune to such criticism. Maybe we should really belong to Italy. Florence re-invented money after all - the Florin - to help punch Europe out off the dark ages, so maybe all of our banking woes should be placed on their doorstep as well. Without the Florin, we wouldn't need mortgages. We could just go smash an Atlantian over the noggin and seize his nice beachfront villa. If only Atlantis hadn't sunk beneath the sea... Did it really plunge? Maybe the Indians did it. Or was it Columbus who sailed for Spain? No, he was really an Italian. Ain't allowed to criticize any of them guys. Hmmm... Guilt by association? Yeee, another conspiracy theory is born!