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People who become citizens or who were born citizens are not hyphenated anything. They are Americans. Period.
Not Cuban Americans or African Americans or Italian Americans or Chinese Americans, but Americans. That's it.
Anything else is a smokescreen.
Citizenship is important. Ethnic heritage isn't. It is an identity. And tagging oneself with an ethnic heritage out of "pride" means you also have to accept responsibility for all the horrors committed by members of your "ethnic identity." You can't brag about something someone in the past did and assume they did it because they were a member of an ethnic group without accepting "shame" for what someone of that ethnic group did that was terrible.
As we go to press polls show America’s largest swing state in a dead head between Romney and Obama. Florida has 29 electoral votes and the third largest “Hispanic” population in America. Normally this means a cakewalk for any Democrat.
But whoops! Turns out that about a third of these Florida Hispanics (Cuban-Americans) are actually so—as in Americans whose ancestors hail almost exclusively from Europe’s Iberian Peninsula known as Hispania by the Romans. So as a broken clock is right twice a day, the term “Hispanic” as used by the mainstream media can actually be correct about 1/1000 of...
And, as for those so-called Hispanics, I teach in a school that is about 45% that demographic, and I note that by the third generation, their English is as good as anyone else's, and their Spanish rather halting.
My father, whose only "Hispanic" heritage was a dash of Sephardi (kicked out of Iberia around 1500 A.D.) used to say that the Cuban emigres made Miami a worthwhile city. Come to think of it, where would the Midwest be had it not gotten a load of thrifty German and Scandinavian farmers se
Long live the American stew!