A question to the Europeans…

I know it’s a running joke that some U.S. born citizens like to identify with their European roots (even if they go back generations) but are generally not accepted as such in Europe. But how do you feel about the first generation—the children of immigrants here, from your countries ? Do you see them as having the right to claim the European identity of their parents even though they’re personally U.S. born ?

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SW-User

It's fine, I've no problem with that.

though I do find it weird if someone says that they're Irish, then if you dig deeper, it was their great great great, grandma going back to 1685 or something, and actually they have more genes from other places, and they've never been to Ireland either, well I think that kind of thing is a quite a bit of a stretch.

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User I understand in that case it’s remote, but I was speaking of people here whose parents were born in Europe, first generation. I wondered if European saw that as different. In that case these are people raised by Europeans.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard oh my gosh I answered wrong of course, I would consider those people European