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angela R

Nothing is wrong with it....

Of course you can love Mexico and still be a good American....Don't let anyone make you feel ashamed because of that.....I know your loyalties are with this country and your heart/culture is with Mexico....

I understand completely!

Â«Â»RUBYÂ«Â»

You should be proud of your ancestry/heritage/race what/wherever it is from.

crishbk

Dude im with you. its stupid, the fighting. Im also Mexican-American and i love the US, but i love Mexico as well. No problem in that.

mycutemy

I'm an Africa-American,I'm African,I was born in America.I don't love it here, I just live here. Never been to Africa,would like to go someday.Things happens thats just life.Just because I'm label Africa-American neither of those names makes me the person......

ashley

it just has to be dealt with--there are lots of ignorant people out there and nothing you, me or anyone says is gonna change that. just love everyone and hope that you change a mind or 2 along the way

LibraSun

There's nothing wrong with that. Remember though that these are just labels. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. Remember the saying, "wherever you go, there you are": meaning that there's a deeper essence of being other than where you were born and where you grew up, and it's something more timeless and placeless.
Also the concept of Mexican as a race is an American concept based on racism; the desire to use a label that describes a non-anglo appearance. Would you say Luis Miguel belongs to the Mexican race? You can see how the labels don't work there.

nick nameless

I guess i am Irish-american, My people came from Ireland, But I was born here. But I consider myself to be an american, who happens to have irish blood. I could bre lithuanian, or polish or chinese, But I was born In America and so I am an American, and proud of it, even though I dont like all the things our government does, or some of the things that other americans do, I will still stand behind my country, and fight for it if need be..
Because we are all Americans, and we may need to stand up for Her soon, Will you?

Tom C

that most of america are racist b@$7@rDs. deal with it, I guess, now I don't mean that in a cruel way, I mean, there is nothing wrong with calling your self Mexican-American, nothing at all, but because of some crack sniffing idiots in this nation, we don't have a moments peace without a complaint! I say We empose racial laws, ie, being finded for calling another person a derogative term, in the intent to insult.

soup100000

i hope to see a time where we do not distinguish ourselves by citizenship or race but just to say i'm a human being.

olea

I did not realize that people are debating about that. I am indifferent to it. I see it simply as your nationality and nothing more. I don't understand why people have problems with it. I am Asian-American, and that doesn't mean anything either; having established it to some people though, makes some individuals assume stereotypical things about my life like I don't know my native language or I've never been to my native land.

TG Special

I don't have a problem with it. I have always called myself German American and nobody ever had a problem with that. It just describes where your people came from.

But when your country exports its people illegally into ours, you can understand why many Americans may feel Mexicans are still more loyal to Mexico, right or wrong.

Jessica

I don't care what you call yourself.

Since I can never find out anywhere whereabouts my family came from, I'll only be able to call myself an American.

J F

People get mad because of this. If you are American, then you are American. To say that you are Mexican American for most people is to say that you live here, but your heart is there. Many people then continue the idea to having a feeling that you are only here for the living conditions, not because of your love for the country. They then draw a stereotypical picture of someone who is a free loader and someone who needs to be sent to Mexico. This is not intirely my view, but it is the way that peoples minds work. My bloodline is Norse. They moved to Ireland in the 1200's and then to American in the 1700's. My family has remained mostly irish since being here as far as the new bloodlines introduced into the family through marrage. I do not call myself Irish-American. I am proud of my bloodlines and heritage, but I am an American. The Norse-Irish is something you see in my face and learn as my friend. I do not wish to fight with Mexico, or its people. I do wish to look out for my country before I worry about the condition or feelings of another. America is about haveing all people from all places together, but for this to work there can be no clicks or divisions. There must be one race. "Americans"

Elle

Call your self whatever you want, I sure don't care. I don't see the big deal.

But, I guess otherpeople could see, a problem with it if you're calling yourself a Mexican-American, and you don't have American citizenship... the I guess you wouldn't be an American... just a Mexican in America.

dani

the definition of an Mexican-American is only of Mexican decent that was born here in the united states....

Pink Panther

i dont know.. But Why cant i call my self italian-american?

Icera

We all live on the same planet don't we....So why don't you call yourself a Earthian...It will save you trouble...

baby_doll

well we tcall people that are born here ans with mexican parents "CHICANOS" because if your family was born in Mexico and you were born in the U.S than your a chicano. i have alot of cousins that were born int the U.S. i think its fine if you consider yourself a Mexican-American theres nothings wrong with that but just dont forget were you come from and dont forget your culture.

sly

yea you're right.... anybody who doesn't like that can leave this wonderful nation... the USA let's you express yourself, it's your rights, and that's what makes this country so damn powerful...

If someone in the US asks what you are, you can either say, mexican -american, german-american, italian-american, etc...
If someone from a different country asks, you can say you're just an American...

PANCHA

Your an American,you can call yourself whatever you want.There is no war.Just a bunch of other Americans who like to think they can throw their weight around.

wheniawoke

here i go again

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

DAR

As you say, war happens. Which side would you be on?

gokart121

Mexico's a country, hispanic is an ethnicity. If you still consider yourself a citizen of Mexico, you haven't emigrated except on paper. What I wonder is if you love mexico so much, why did you become an american in the first place? Part of the issue of the day here is that a lot of mexicans have run away from their country because of its' problems, instead of trying to solve those problems as citizens.

I think we need to have better laws, law enforcement, and a physical barrier between the United States and Mexico until Mexico stands up, and gets its' act together on a lot of issues.

They've got money, they've got people, but one thing they don't have anymore is excuses. America CARRIES Mexico, for the most part. if there was no commerce between Mexico and the United States, Mexico would hardly have any commerce at all.
That's not america's fault.

But again, 'mexican' is not a race, 'mexican' implies nationality.
'Hispanic' is :

HisÂ·panÂ·ic (h-spnk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America.
2. Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture.
n.

So, there's a difference. If you're a citizen of Mexico, working and living in the United States, that's one thing. But if you're a US citizen whose history and family etc. is in Mexico, you're now an american, and that WWII vet put it perfectly, proclaiming himself an 'american hispanic', meaning that he puts his country before his skin color/background etc.

It really depends on you, the finer points of all of this, what your plans are in life, but I for one advocate better limitations and controls on all this immigration stuff. I think we've gone beyond stupid with it, handing out too much money, not asking for good oversight, I think Mexico's got a lot of potential, but some of that potential needs to be explored and developed separately from the United States, and it's hard for people like you who are stuck in the middle or whatever, but there still needs to be some healthy distance between the 2 countries, which is hard because of a shared border. Nonetheless, we should be focusing on trying to give mexico a hand UP, not a hand OUT...they have to get on top of things like birth control, infrastructure, representation, stuff like that...and those are just starters...Mexico's got miles to go, and it's right to want to help, just try and be enlightened about it, too.

Brotha Man...

dude...you a mexican stop trying to kiss whietys @ss...

good girl

BEANS!

TexMan98

If you're a true American, then you are an American first. I don't refer to myself as an Irish-American, I'm an AMERICAN. If you have to distinguish where you came from or your announce your heritage, then don't refer to yourself as an American. It's that simple. If you want to announce your loyalty to a third world country, have at it, just don't also claim to also be an American.

Clyde S

You're either Mexican or American. Pick one.
If you want to be Mexican there's a place for that. Its called Mexico. Go there and be the best Mexican you can be.
If you want to be an American then stay in the US and be the best American you can be.

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