Settlers build something new. Immigrants just take advantage of stuff other people already made.

@VinceChaos European roots, American greatness!

My roommate with a mother who has an English accent didn’t consider English to be an ethnicity <:sad:366743316475281408>

It upsets my mom a bit that I identify as Anglo-American and don't snowflake about the recent Swedish component

Yes. I hate the term “Native American.” I’m the Native. My ancestors created America.

Amerindian is the correct term

Englishness is still normative Americanness to the point whites with anything else pick that out

Cause it's special

@Sam Southern - TN I should use that more

Amerindian is good

@Alexander Pechorintheres even more to it than that with evidence the people of European descent were the first to put feet on these lands.

If ancestors founding a nation 400 years ago doesn't qualify me as a native nothing does lol

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/indians/redman.html

Kinda like how Elizabeth Warren identifies with her 1/1024th Cherokee

This should be enough reason to be cautious of all immigration

@ThisIsChris I make a point to use it as often as possible to remind people of the difference

study that chart closely

Ok so we should only let in the Swiss

@ExternalPepsi @Alexander Pechorin no calling them "savages", an epithet rule 12

@Josh M. -OH True. Some interesting information there. Regardless, existing on a piece of land and acting like a savage in no way means you’re a native of the country other people created

> Polish 26% Republican

@ThisIsChris okay!

doubt

Real anti slav hours

They're not sending their best, folks. (except me, I'm the one exception)

(Pls no bully, am not serious)

Amerigo Vespucci and Christopher Columbus were not English. 😏 but they were white Europeans. It was i the divine plan that this continent would be discovered and settled by white Europeans ! This was the promised land

@Jacob Half Slavic my grandparents were from Plock, Poland

Chris Columbus never even got to North America lol

He hung around the Caribbean

Francis Drake did tho

@Virgil Oh nice my parents are from Pomerania

Leif Erikson did so long before those guys.

Columbus is still a hero. See: https://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Christopher-Columbus-Thomas-Bowden/dp/1889439363

I'm not argueing with that.

Leif Erikson was Norwegian. People tend to ignore that Icelanders didn't really exist as a peoples yet

yup

Iceland was very recently settled at the time, right?

i believe so

There were also Norse people living in Greenland at the time- who were actually there before the Inuit.

Before the Inuit, but not the Dorset (who the Inuit displaced when they moved Eastward)