As a nation, we're causing this kind of international ignorance by putting so much emphasis on ethnicity rather than nationality. All of these hyphenated-American subgroups are watering down what it means to be an American. If people would stop focusing on skin color, eventually the U.S. WOULD be seen as a diverse place, but instead we're all focused on the differences and not the areas in which we are the same.
Having said that . . . . the U.S. is not truly one nation in culture so it's really hard to define what being in American is. We have the deep south, the northeast, the midwest . . . . and the left coast and we couldn't be more different than many of the tiny european countries are.
As a nation, we're causing this kind of international ignorance by putting so much emphasis on ethnicity rather than nationality. All of these hyphenated-American subgroups are watering down what it means to be an American. If people would stop focusing on skin color, eventually the U.S. WOULD be seen as a diverse place, but instead we're all focused on the differences and not the areas in which we are the same.
Having said that . . . . the U.S. is not truly one nation in culture so it's really hard to define what being in American is. We have the deep south, the northeast, the midwest . . . . and the left coast and we couldn't be more different than many of the tiny european countries are.