>>79899346Hyphenated Americans are a somewhat unique aspect of America (I say somewhat because due to its "Two Founding Nations" structure, Canada was founded like that too) that doesn't really exist in Europe or Asia. Since none of us lived here since immemorial and was instead a settler colony, we had to found a new national ideal as blood and soil doesn't really work when the first people just showed up and took it since it was empty (well, mostly empty)
>>79899720>having a shared culture and history for thousands of years is meaningless!Yes, you are in fact supposed to abandon that when you come here. Becoming an American means you're supposed to value American culture over the one you came from. That was the point, but it's been muddied in recent years with anti-assimilationist rhetoric.
