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作者：游客 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
about Americans.
US is an immigrant country with all kinds of people from Asia, Europe and Africa.
I had an Irish-American classmate (red hair, typical of the Irish). We once had a conversation, and she told me that when she travelled in Europe, she felt really at-home when she stayed in Dublin(but not for France, Germany). The bar, the street, the building, the music, everything there made her feel that this country is her root.... I heard similar stories from several Irish Americans. Their ancesters fled Ireland due to the famine in 1850s and they send money home, and visited Ireland very often to see relatives. When JFK was elected as the President of USA in 1960, the first country he visited is IRELAND. The author of the ZT article should teach herself with the DVDs, like "Irish Empire", or PBS' 'the Irish in America'.
During WWII, Italian Americans were temporarily kept in a concentration camp and was released due to F.D. Roosevelt's effort. They were not sent to European battlefield, but rather the pacific front. Many Italian Americans also have strong cultural links with Italy, while there are also some who feel being American more strongly. eg. The famous singer Sinatra.
the Greeks are also easy to distinguish, both by names and faces. Jews, the same things, my Russian friends quickly told me how many professors in the school are Jews...., only by faces....
中国人，你的名字永远写在脸上, if so, you should also say Italians, Greeks, Jews, Frenchmen....你的名字永远写在脸上, because it is so easy to identify them out from Northern Europeans. I guess that the author MIGHT NEVER TRAVEL TO EUROPE or HAVE no FRIENDS OUTSIDE his or her Chinese friend circle, which lead him or her to reach such narrow-minded comments against one ABC here.
US is a melting pot by historical accidents, not by the wills of the first wave of immigrants from England. So there are always all kinds of conflicts, as well as the integration. Before the civil right movement in 1960, the integration was not openly supported, but this movement changed US a lot.
I am happy to see that ABCs are more identified as Americans, though I also appreciate if they are willing to learn some cultural stuff about China. But anyway, they were born in US, grew up in US culture and did not get benefits from China, so why must others push them to identify themselves as Chinese?
So let's individuals' free wills determine their cultural belongings and stop write such implicitly critical articles about these ABCs.
By the way, a brief note: George Bush, Jr., is a German-American. But his father, former US president fought a war against Nazi Germany. He, himself, also standed up against Germany in the Iraq war against Germany. Though I personally did not like this war, but he clearly put national interests of the adopted countries of his ancesters above ethnical kinship. (in German, the family name will be "Busch").
作者：游客 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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 zt - 中国人，你的名字永远写在脸上 -- BPM - (3290 Byte) 2003-10-21 周二, 00:49 (1179 reads) - the author really lacks in-depth knowledge -- goldeneye - (5952 Byte) 2003-10-21 周二, 10:46 (307 reads)
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