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Europeans tend to keep to their “origins” even if they move abroad or are born in a different country than their parents were from.
So if I end up moving to Germany, but both my wife and I are Italian, the children will consider themselves Italians, not German. Sure, some might take it and call themselves German but not all.
But then they complain about Americans who call themselves German/Irish/Italian while not growing up in those European countries only to turn around and claim that immigrants from other countries can never truly become a part of theirs. Very strange double standard many pretend they don’t have.
Idk anyone who complains about that, I know a few Americans who are born to German and Italian immigrant parents and even in our friends circle we only jokingly say "Oh the Americans came", otherwise we refer to them and they to themselves as German and Italian.
And who was originally in the Americas?…
Do you understand why their comment about me “not looking American” is ignorant?
Not the people you're insinuating, as they weren't even the first migratory group to arrive in the "Americas"
The etymology of the name America itself is European *(Vespucci Amerigo being Italic)
We could say the same thing about "Japanese." The modern Japanese are not the original inhabitants of the island, as they emigrated from modern China to modern day Japan and displaced the native Austronesians. You wouldn't be this absurdly pedantic to a Japanese person today saying who is and isn't Japanese
Tell me where your people are from and I'll tell you who "originally" was there, and not your people