I was watching motor racing earlier and one of the drivers was describes as "African American" and that got me thinking. Many American groups are prefixed by their ethnicity - Mexican American, Japanese American etc. So why aren't others described as "European Americans"? After all, with the exception of First Nation or Native American, they are all immigrants, with the vast majority arriving within the last 200 years. I looked as census information for the USA in 1800, total population roughly 5 million of which nearly 1 million were slaves. African Americans were hardly an insignificant minority even then.
Doesn't it make you want to smile or spit whan you whack a bag of compacted ice against the wall -as you do. And the bag splits -as it does. It wasn't really my intention to wash the kitchen floor today but hey ho my glass is half full literally and metaphorically. @KT53 in the same way Irish Welsh and Scots become British if they do something good
No B3, it's just another form of separating them as a different secies. I've been thinking the same thing as @KT53. Just a couple of decades ago there would be characters in TV series and books referred to disparagingly as Italian/Polack/Irish and so on American but no more. They're all white. Maybe they think African American is less insulting than the N word but it seems to be just a PC acceptable synonym for many.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@KT53 in the same way Irish Welsh and Scots become British if they do something good
Ain't that the truth. Andy Murray was "that whiney voiced Scot" until he won Wimbledon. Then he became the greatest British tennis player in 70 something years.
@KT53 in the same way Irish Welsh and Scots become British if they do something good
Ain't that the truth. Andy Murray was "that whiney voiced Scot" until he won Wimbledon. Then he became the greatest British tennis player in 70 something years.
Have you seen the advert for the upcoming US Open that he's done? Really funny
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have loads of fun with the French when they refer to me as English. No, I explain, OH is English. I am British, being a mixture plus a bit of Danish and born in what is now Tanzania.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Lol obelixx I do exactly the same. The French get really confused when I say I’m Scottish, hubby is English, son is born in France and has a welsh and French godparents..... oh and yes all except godfather Andre are British... oh then there is the Irish grandfather who is not British!
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
I'm feeling short today. We had a shopping delivery and the driver must have been well over 7' tall. He had to duck to come in the front door and had to dodge around the light fittings in the hall. It was like that scene when Gandalf visits Bilbo in his hobbit house.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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@KT53 in the same way Irish Welsh and Scots become British if they do something good
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I feel short a lot at home since Possum overtook when she was about 13 and I'm not short for my age group.