Viz, thanks for elaborating!
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Secondly, why the need to keep pointing to your family's past and/or the country they came from generations ago? It's not as if the average US citizen or the US as a whole hasn't achieved anything.
I'm not sure if you've ever been to the US or not, but we're such a diverse country, with so many different people from different places that we tend to cluster in groups with similar ancestry. [...] Being that you're from a country that's probably the size of the county I live in, I can understand why you don't necessarily get why we're this way. It's definitely not the fact that we aren't proud to be American, because we are, but we're also proud of where we came from and how we got to be here.
I follow your reasoning about the diversity and the resulting clustering. I had to laugh at the country/county joke; it is probably true.
That being said, Germany, France and the UK are a lot bigger than The Netherlands, but there's no (or at least not as much) 'clustering' going on there.
My idea: lack of common history/shared experiences makes for more clustering. The US is a relatively new nation without any bonding (or diversifying) events before the War of Independance.
Prediction: in, say, 250 years, there'll be no more references to ...-Americans.
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I’m more inclined to believe that religion is a type of tradition rather than the other way around.
I think I agree with you; haven't thought it through completely yet. It doesn't make my earlier statement (tradition is milder form of religion) less true, though.
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It was only an example, you’re reading far too much into it.
OK, could be. Can someone explain to me why nobody ever mentions German-Americans, Scottish-Americans, etc., while Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans and some other groups are always indicated this way? Thanks!
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