Non-Americans, what do you like/dislike about Americans of your heritage, nationality, and/or ethnicity?

[Solarbeam]

For example, what do Irish people think (like/dislike) of Irish-Americans, Koreans with Korean-Americans, Caribbean people with Caribbean-American, and so-on.

[redheart]

African americans are the coolest 

most sassiest folks on this planet

 

love what they brought to the american culture

[suit up]

i find it annoying when they're like "i am *insert nationality*!!" when in reality they don't anything about the actual country and are actually like 1/8 of that heritage

[Reckoner]

 

African americans are the coolest 

most sassiest folks on this planet

 

love what they brought to the american culture

 

[milkcafe]

black americans are so cool and funny honestly 

[Solarbeam]

i find it annoying when they're like "i am *insert nationality*!!" when in reality they don't anything about the actual country and are actually like 1/8 of that heritage

True. Especially when that person says that they are part-Native American. More than 50% of the time, that is not true or if it is they just use it to justify things like they are so unique or wearing certain clothing

[Obelisk]

I dun care. Unless they are immigrants, most of them lose touch, with their background.

[brumalParty]

I hate them. I feel like all of them are brainwashed to the point where they shouldn't even be considered as one of us. They always look down on their own culture and try to teach people the "right" way to live (i.e. dressing like Americans, spending your day like Americans, eating like Americans, thinking like Americans etc.). I can understand an American doing that to a certain point but I find it really funny how non-Americans accept making the American Culture the most dominant culture in the world under the name of globalization.

[Guest]

don't know any arab americans 

[Bryant]

I don't know what to think about English Americans, seeing as although they are plenty of them, they don't really seem to identify as English at all.

 

It might be a bit rich of me to comment on Irish Americans, seeing as I'm only half-Irish and live in England, and Anglo-Irish people can get just as tacky about St Patrick's day etc. But most Irish-Americans are far more distant from Ireland or any actually Irish people. They can come off as pretty ignorant and condescending, and then there's that whole involving themselves in conflicts that they don't understand and funding terrorist groups issue...

[Chiaka]

I dont think of them as they are the same nationality as me, coz they didnt grow up in my country,

they barely or dont know my language at all.

To me they are just americans, not related to me.

[Azur]

I don't know any French American (I know there are some of them in Louisiana for example but not a lot)...I feel like they probably don't care about their french heritage. They are just Americans.

[Joon]

True. Especially when that person says that they are part-Native American. More than 50% of the time, that is not true or if it is they just use it to justify things like they are so unique or wearing certain clothing

Yeah, Im a 1/16th Cherokee and I don't think it grants me any special privledges when I don't really know anything about the culture and don't experience any of the stuggles that native Americans face today. If my family didn't keep good records of our family tree, I never would have known.......Inusually don't even mention it, all my ancestry and heritage is just one big melting pot and I have little to no cultural connection to any of them. I think it's kind of sad, that I don't have a connection to any culture other than modern day American culture, but it is what it is.

[sakurahanabira]

I'm Vietnamese-American, but I've seen some Vietnamese nationals online who consider us Vietnamese-Americans "traitors" because our parents fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. :/ During the Vietnam War, there was a mass fleeing of southern Vietnamese refugees when the Viet Cong overtook Saigon and as a result, the majority of overseas Vietnamese were originally from south Vietnam. And since I've lost the ability to speak my first language due to living in white areas growing up, a lot of Vietnamese people including my own parents and grandparents are disappointed in me for not being able to speak it. Perhaps if I had grown up near Vietnamese-majority areas like Little Saigon, I would've still been able to speak it but I had nobody around me who could speak Vietnamese except family. 

 

i find it annoying when they're like "i am *insert nationality*!!" when in reality they don't anything about the actual country and are actually like 1/8 of that heritage

 

there is a difference between nationality and ethnicity. Nationality is the country you are born/have citizenship in, ethnicity is your ethnic background. I am of full Vietnamese ethnicity but am American by nationality. 

 

in my experience as an Asian-American, 1st and 2nd generation Asian-Americans seem to be closer in touch with their or their parents' heritage than 3rd-4th+ gen Asian-Americans who were born to parents born in the US. It also depends on whether your parents and grandparents passed their culture down to you or not. I was raised with Vietnamese customs growing up despite being born in America (plus I live in California which has the largest Vietnamese immigrant communities) so I've been exposed to my parents and grandparents' culture since I was a baby. And a lot of 1st gen Asian-American parents where I live stick their kids in Chinese school, Korean school, or Japanese school after regular school or on the weekends so they can retain their heritage language since it is very easy to forget how to speak your first language if you don't use it. 

[JihyoStoleMyHeartAYAYAY]

 

African americans are the coolest 

most sassiest folks on this planet

 

love what they brought to the american culture

 

  

[benseac]

don't know any arab americans 

 

Come visit SE Michigan and you'll find a number of Americans of Arabic descent.

[Oppa did mean it]

I always get in fights with my cousins over this type of shit

 

They always talk shit of our country and think they know what's wrong with it, even though they has been there like 3 times, I always make fun of them in return and tell them that a loser in a 1st world country is still a loser 

[cherrimotion]

They always talk about how much they know about that country's culture while butchering it. It's so annoying 

[joyvelvet.]

If half of their family is Americans and the other half is another ethnic race, I understand but if their nationality is half American but their other half is ethnic race is Jamaican and they act like their full Americans I don't like them, for example, my friend's cousin who happen to be born in America but is her ethnic race is Jamaican and the girl has absolute no respect for our culture and speaks and act like she is American. Like that bitch needs to wake up and accept the fact that she is Jamaican and stop acting like we are shit, cause we ain't!