What does it mean to be an American today? It depends on whom you ask.
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2021
- In this excerpt of Second Opinion, Erika Lee, a Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota and investigative journalist Jean Guerrero discuss how the immigrant experience shapes American identity. The Times’ Editorial Page editor Sewell Chan moderates the conversation.
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Anti-immigrantion and anti-illegal immigration are two entirely different things. It's shameful and telling when people conflate the two. What is an American? An American is a citizen of the United States, no more and no less.
As a globetrotter with a lot of immigrant friends, I often tell people that being ‘American’ is a self-identity. You don’t have to be a United States citizen to be ‘American.’ You’re American if you say you are. No one has an ‘America Passport.’
I have a lot of friends who are not citizens, including my wife who is native Japanese, who own property, have bank accounts, kids, jobs and so forth in the United States, and who are ‘American.’ They are the definition of American, because they choose to be.
It means you are subject to U.S. law!!! Just ask anyone!!!
As a 8th generation Californian (Californio).
All my father has to say,"we never crossed the border, it crossed us."
As a sixth generation Los Angeleno, i’ve been hearing that line my whole life. It is complete bullshit…. The state of California was only part of Mexico for barely 25 years. Mexico left almost no political or cultural footprint on what is now California. For all intents and purposes, it went from Spanish to American.
@@Rickinvegas exactly. Re read what I just wrote... there were no borders when my fathers people came from Spain to california. Where did I write that said Mexico. My father was born in 1935... so, take that back 210 years.. was that mexico? That's 100 years before mexico gained independence from spain... my father and mom were one of the last arranged Californio marriages.
@@Rickinvegas a little history of my family that still stays and will never leave Ca. My Pops people are directly descended from Pedro Fages (late 1690s) he set foot in California through Monterrey as a soldier of Spain 100 years before mexico gained independence from Spain, the first Spaniard to settle in the san joaquin valley in what's known has Fresno. Fresno was later a city in the 1850s under the US Flag under Nexico in the 1770s.
My mothers people are descended from Don Jose Yorba. My older siblings all born in the 1964, 66, 67 me in 77 and cousins born in the late 50s to the 70s were the last lines to not marry into Californio families.
@@epramos6800 My apologies. My experience with that phrase was usually hearing it from illegal aliens or people who supported open borders. In other words, people who knew nothing of the historical facts and actual history of California in particular and the entire Southwest in general
@@Rickinvegas my fathers people have stories of fighting Russians in Ca too so , yeh no apologies necessary. Thet were sorta the interlopers into Ca. Just small skirmishes a few deaths but they worked it out but the Russians left, said it was too hard in Ca. 🤣
it don’t mean sht
Look at it this way. Some games are just better than others. Chess is a better game than Yahtzee. Poker is a better game than Gin Rummy. None of that matters though if the people playing the game don’t bother with the rules of how to play. Whether Chess is a good game doesn’t mean anything if the players are chimpanzees. America is like that. It’s the best game out there. But the players aren’t using the rules, so the game doesn’t work. It isn’t even the game. It doesn’t even make sense.
Stop the hyphenated BS!
Sorry that’s a little myopic.