Is anybody else here an elderly black woman trapped in a young white males body?

It isn't made up of immigrants. @dark548

@Spoiledbrat Yeah, it is, ultimately.

No it isn't. Most people were born here. @SomeMichGuy

@Spoiledbrat I said "ultimately." We are all immigrants, from what is currently known.

An immigrant moves to a new country and settles there. @SomeMichGuy

@Spoiledbrat Yes, and, ULTIMATELY, we all came from elsewhere.

Not here.

Your family's threads came from elsewhere, as has everyone else's.

That's not an immigrant. An immigrant moves from one country to another. @SomeMichGuy

@Spoiledbrat An immigrant comes from somewhere else to "here".

All of our families *ultimately* came to the New World from elsewhere (Europe, Africa, Asia).

None of us are native to the Americas. Even the "Native" Americans were the first immigrants, from what is currently known; it seems that the Canadian expression, the "First Nations", conveys that primacy without implying that they were indigenous.

But that's not what an immigrant is. Most americans now are not immigrants. Look it up.@SomeMichGuy

@Spoiledbrat
We are [b]all[/b] from families which at some time or other came here from elsewhere, whether yesterday, hundreds of years ago, or thousands of years ago.

But we today are not from elsewhere so we are not immigrants. I asked you to look it up but you'd rather argue with me. 😑@SomeMichGuy

Go argue with someone else because that's not what an immigrant is.

@dark548 You took this seriously?

@Spoiledbrat lol

I said ULTIMATELY.

I actually do try to choose my words.

Americans aren't immigrants at all period. @SomeMichGuy

@SomeMichGuy Actually, nobody from Europe or other continents was here more than 500 years ago.

@Spoiledbrat My grandparents were.

@RedBaron The "Indians" crossed on the land bridge...or, more accurately, a set of peoples crossed and there DNA combined and formed the mix we think of as "native" Americans, etc.

That happened well over 500 yrs ago.

@Spoiledbrat
[quote]Americans aren't immigrants at all period.[/quote]

Well, there are people who are made citizens quite regularly, who ARE. The Afghani people we are taking in are just an obvious example.

But my father's family, my mother's family--at various points in time--emigrated to the US. So *I* am *ultimately* an immigrant, I was not here back to the dim mists of the past.

Neither were you.

You don't need to be to not be an immigrant. Just look it up, fuck 🙄@SomeMichGuy

You're a dick. @SomeMichGuy

Some Americans are immigrants but most aren't because most were born here. Get over yourself. @SomeMichGuy

And SHUT UP@Spoiledbrat

You know what an immigrant is. You're just playing stupid to push your own agenda.@SomeMichGuy