| Soundwave said: Most white Americans cannot trace their lineage to 1775 (American indepedence): That means even their families at some point were immigrants here. |
What you posted only proves my point that nearly all US citizens have at least 1 ancestor dating back to pre-1776 ...
America exists mainly because of colonization ...
| Soundwave said: Industrialization doesn't change anything, there were plenty of Irish, Italians, Dutch, Germans, French, etc. that came to America looking for better oppurtunity. Kinda the same reason Mexican people come today. Hell, Trump's own family does not extend very far back in the US, his grandfather came to the US in the 1800s ... look for (you guessed it) better oppurtunities to raise his family in. |
No more than 15% of the US population was ever foreign born according to US census ...
You overestimate just how much of America has foreign origins ...
| Soundwave said: There's always been several million Mexicans in America from the point that California, New Mexico, Utah, (basically the entire West Coast) etc. became states ... these people were there before anyone else already as that was Mexico to begin with. The border was redrawn around where they already lived, they didn't immigrate anywhere. |
So then should the rest of Mexico rescind their independence and accede to become one of the states of america if they badly want to be 'Americans' ? LOL
| Soundwave said: On top of that 25% of the population in the very first census (circa 1776) were African American slaves who basically built much of the nation. That means even in the 1700s, the US already had a larger portion of a non-white population than many multicultural European countries do today. And then you had Chinese laborers too. So America has always been a multi-ethnic settler nation. |
Don't even compare African Americans to foreign born citizens illegally crossing the border, at least the vast majority of the former didn't go around trespassing lands ...
