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August 13, 2004
Hyphen American
Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they’re Irish and we should all have a drink? It’s not enought to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you’d wonder how they’d get along if someone hadn’t invented the hyphen.
—Frank McCourt in ‘Tis
Isn’t that’ the truth? I understand honoring your heritage and all, but why can’t we just be American? I guess these days a lot of people hate American’s, though, and maybe we should identify ourselvs as Irish or German or, in my case Polish, while travelling abroad.
Posted by Phil at August 13, 2004 01:08 PM
