I reject the notion that a Pashtun from Afghanistan can be an Englishman and Vice Versa.
I’ve never met an Afghan Pashtun Englishman, but I’m sure there must be one out there somewhere. Some of the most English people I know are ethnically Jews, south Asians, and Africans. With a nod to @BartholomewB, I’d suggest that the only people unlikely ever to identify as
English would be the Cornish, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Australians.
Americans don’t have one nationality. Anyone who meets the governments immigration requirements can come here and be a citizen and that’s been the case since it’s inception.
Perhaps you would say the same about the United Kingdom. One often hears the phrase, “He may be British, but he’ll never be English.”
Yes they do.
They’re Americans.
An American of Nigerian descent is no less an American than someone of Irish descent.
They may be of different ancestries but they are both Americans.
I think this may have to do with the semantics of the word “nationality”. I think you are using “nationality” to mean “the quality of belonging to a state”, whereas @CCHcolonel seems to be using “nationality” to mean “the quality of belonging to an ethnic group” (since the word “nation” can be used to mean both “state” and “ethnos”). I think that you are both in agreement that all American citizens are Americans. What @CCHcolonel is saying is that the USA is unusual in being a people defined by citizenship rather than by ethnicity. As he says above, “Poland for Poles, England for the English, Scotland for the Scots.” I am not saying that I agree with that. There are Ukrainian Poles, Pakistani Englishmen, and Italian Scots.
I just see current immigration when coupled with a lot of the political issues as being a deliberate attempt to bloodlessly replace current populations of certain country’s.
That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Only western country’s are expected to absorb these huge amounts of immigrants from all over
Not true. South Africa, for example, is now home to immigrants from all over the African continent.
I’ve probably traveled more than most. I’ve been to 37 different country’s on 4 continents.
Yugoslavia didn’t even exist until the treaty of versailles. It was a made up state and we saw what happened when all that diversity fell apart didn’t we.
I am wondering whether some of your travelling includes serving in the Balkans in the 1990s. If that is the case it would perhaps explain some of your views.
