As an American citizen, do you ever desire to go back to the country your ancestors immigrated from?

Mike N

I am an American with native American, German, Irish, and God only knows what else. I would have to make too many trips to cover them all.

shy_angeleyes01

I agree 100% with mommato.

mommato4boys

I can't really go back because I never have been there. I would love to visit the places that my ancestors came from but they are places to visit... America is my home!

bekkiboo31

No, I do not. I'm happy just where I am....at HOME in the USA. See, there it is again....."go back"........hmmm....how can I possibly "go back" to a place I've never been?

tankgirl_84

NO!

Well, like somebody else said, I can't go back to some place I've never been. And I'd be rather busy trying to see all the places my ancestors came from, which does include the US. It would be nice to visit Scotland or Ireland some day, though. I don't think I want to visit England at this point in time.

duc602

not at all i figure if they had enough sense to get the hell out, why would i want to show my ignorance and return, besides i am 1/4 cherokee. so how would i do this.

Cookie Dog

While researching the family tree, I have found the Farm my great-grandad left when the family came to the USA in 1895. Still retains the name. I thought that if I had a few extra million I could go buy it and use it for a summer home.

Yukaza

No ,not at all my ancestors came here in 1702 from Germany.Ive been back to visit it but Id NEVER want to live there.I love the freedom of the country of my birth and that's the USA.........

To the poster above,your ancestors were not indigenous to this country,they immigrated here from another Continent across the Bering Strait,so you would have to go back to Asia or Africa.read the real history of the so called native American.

Contrary to the opinion of the uninformed named Janet German's are not Nazis your racists remark is understood tho ...you need to get a real education next time around

Elizabeth L

Me too, but I'm also as much Mexican as I am German and I wouldn't want to live down there when they did because it was during the revolution......That's why my ancestors came here.

yes Africa

AngelsFan

Hey,when I win that lottery,I'm gonna go to Yorkshire,Eng.(one side)Cambourne ,Eng.(another side)Prussia (another side) and Scotland ,with a quick trip thru Ireland.That's a "Heinz 57" American for ya.

give_god_a_chance2004

Well my ancestory is irish, and to be honest I do think about wanting to go back to ireland. Ive never been there, and ive always wondered what ireland would be like today. From what I do know the country does have beautiful scenery, and a rich history. I do desire at times to go back to my ancestral country and live there where my ancestors came from. Part of me has always wanted to, thing is I didnt know this until after you asked this question. I guess its just something I never admitted openly to anyone. I might someday decide to go to ireland, and learn my familes history.
Oh and you wonder about life germany? If you really want to know then go there, it wont hurt you to learn your familes history will it?

revolution is brewing

I'm American Indian. Where would I go?

That's what my grandfather did. He went to Mexico in 1939 and stayed there.
His parents had moved to Sacramento, California from Mexico, running away from the revolution,in 1910 to live with his "Californios", cousins.

WonderGirl

No, I really don't consider myself anything but American. My family can be traced back to the Mayflower and there is Native American in my family. In grade school, I was forced to do a project on my family's roots. Since then, I've never identified myself as being anything but American.

ALWAYS GOTTA KNOW

I am 3/4 Norwegian. I have no connection to Norway because I was born here and that severs the connection. I have no interest in Norwegian culture, etc. I do not understand people who feel an intense connection with a country they may have visited but only contained their ancestors. I really don't get it.

ravin_lunatic

I'm a pure blooded Heinz 57 Californian, with ancestors from Germany, France and Scotland. I don't want to even visit those countries when I haven't even been to Colorado or Maine!!!!

I'd like to go to quite a few places my recent ancestors came from; if I could only pick a few, I'd pick Israel (I think I'll wait a while), Italy and then Ireland. I'd also really like to see Iceland, because my parents were stationed there before I was born, and if they had waited another month I would have been born there and had dual citizenship -- American and Icelandic -- so it feels a little more like a second home to me than even places my great grandparents were from.

Parrot Bay

I would think it would be natural to miss your home country. There are good things about Germany and good things here. Even when Moses was leading the slaves out of Egypt the slaves would miss things about being in Egypt.
Even US citizens who have German roots but have never set a foot there go back to visit. Some call themselves Germans even though they are US citizans and not German Citizans

longroad

Oh yes My Great great grand mother lived in Switzerland, love to visit, and depending on standard of living, to live there.

TRUTHSEEKER

don't like the Nazis. I'd rather go to Ireland.

Tommy D

I wonder, too. I want to stay and change The United States direction under Bushism. We need to vote for change in each coming election.

larryclay2006

not if you are a halfbreed

I Love Mutts

That's a good question. I am Native American, and this is my country, only now its full of millions of other people(immigrants). But if they all went back to their country of origin, my people could have their country back!

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