Adding an ethinic prefix to the American label has become as fashion forward as wearing your shorts big and below the beltline of design. So let me ask you this, do you live in America as an American citizen either born here or nationalized? Then you should consider yourself an American. Period. Why put cultural difference in front of American? What purpose could there be in adding additional monikers other than to suggest being and American just isn’t enough status for you.

 I mean one can see with their eyes any racial difference  so why point it out? Would it be any more correct for me to say I am an Irish, German French-American? (All of which linger in my background.) Do people in other nations apply a kind of tacked on prefix in front of their homeland name to their citizens from different birthright?  I mean really have you ever heard of a Native-British or an African-Chinese?  And you and I both know , from watching the many countries that competed on the FIFA World Soccer events recently, that all countries have a fair mix of immigrants that live among them. Yet they remain simple and well defined as in “I am British, Swedish, or Asian,” etc. when they need to introduce themselves to others as such.

To tell you the truth the whole political-correct thing smells of  fear. Fear that some cultures may one-up another in our fair land. How quickly we forget the whole spirit of freedom, and that immigration was an effort to remove the stigma and struggles of our fore fathers/mothers . America was founded on colonization with people of many different backgrounds and upon the blood of a civil war, the civil liberties led to “The United States of America.” Now political correctness wants to divide us all and categorize our differences.

No one should ever disparage another person’s family heritage. But keep in mind we were all initially immigrated from other cultures. It was the desire to live freely without “political correctness,” telling us what to do that brought our first families to America in the first place. How backwards our forward thinking has led us. Instead of laying down lines of demarcation among America’s citizens we should do everything we can to promote unity and loyalty.

I cringe every time someone implies that it’s wrong of me to neglect to address another with the something dash American. It kind of feels like they are suggesting that being plain old American is now uncool.

Oddly many of the people that insist on the ethinic prefix have never left American soil and really have no nationalized rights to use the other, because  if you look on their birth certificate you will note they are registered from birth as simply American.