Americans and their deep sense of pride for their roots..
By shanshu1
@shanshu1 (12)
August 28, 2008 7:03pm CST
Hello!
Why do americans choose to insert the name of their ancestry in front of their nationality? Like for example Irish-American.
If say, I had french grandparents, over here in ireland, we don't say 'french-irish'..it sounds silly.
Just wondering:)
1 response
@TheHawkBat (669)
• United States
29 Aug 08
I honestly have no idea. I have heard this a lot before, but I've never done this. I guess that is partly because I'd have no idea where to begin... I think I'd be something like English-German-Irish-Native-some other thing here-American.
