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  by Dee Holder

  Created on: December 06, 2009

  When I first moved to the states I was so irritated with filling in racial information on forms. The

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  by Stacie Moyle

  Created on: March 19, 2010

  Americans are comprised of a group of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds as a result of the massive

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  by Dorothy Jo Bourbeau

  Created on: February 29, 2008

  I went to school with a girl who was what is now referred to as African-American, at that time the term

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  by Marion Garcia

  Created on: December 16, 2009

  Can't African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, etc., just be called Americans?

  
  

  The original thirteen

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  by Dan Keizer

  Created on: January 05, 2009

  In a nation of immigrants, why should ancestry put people into separate categories? Why are some people

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  by Bob Zimmerman

  Created on: November 18, 2009   Last Updated: November 20, 2009

  I was happy to see this topic finally be brought up. I am a white, or as all the paperwork says, Caucasian

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  by Stephen Bate

  Created on: March 03, 2008

  I live in the UK, but have a lot of business contact with the USA. When I hear the distinctive accent,

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  by Bill Wald

  Created on: September 17, 2010   Last Updated: September 18, 2010

  Why do we need to have a designation of ethnicity; a Hyphen? What is it that determines the actual usage

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  by Reynold Conger

  Created on: June 29, 2007

  By putting too much emphasis on ethnicity, America is tearing itself apart.

  The United States spent much

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  by PC Marks

  Created on: November 01, 2007

  Separation of Americans into groups allows racism to continue. Stereotypes continue to grow. The American

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  by Rose Calder

  Created on: February 06, 2009

  Early on in my lifetime, the politically-correct practice of referring to people of color as hyphenated

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  by Rob Purifoy

  Created on: April 09, 2008

  Things can get a little ridiculous when it comes to placing labels on sectors of society and this hyphen

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  by Gary Davis

  Created on: June 06, 2007

  African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans Are Americans. I think the implication is, is it O.K. with

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  by Morgan Johnson

  Created on: March 09, 2008

  Hyphenated-Americans are a result of well intentioned efforts to reverse centuries of discrimination,

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  by Carol Shaw-Sutton

  Created on: January 22, 2009   Last Updated: June 30, 2011

  My parents were foreign-born and both emigrated to Canada, where I was born. I then moved to the United

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  by Salvatore Oliva

  Created on: August 20, 2007

  If you were born in America and your passport is American, you are an American. What does Tiger Woods

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  by Krystle Murillo

  Created on: June 10, 2007   Last Updated: July 14, 2008

  It is easy to see that we have come a very long way towards equality between the various nationalities

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  by Brian S. James

  Created on: May 29, 2007

  I heard someone ask, "Are there many African-Americans in Australia?" It took me a few seconds to realize

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  by Corey Kealiher

  Created on: June 29, 2007

  Steeped as we are in the emptiness of consumer materialism, the quest for identity gives us, at least

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  by Melissa Washington

  Created on: June 05, 2009   Last Updated: June 10, 2009

  I believe that anyone born in America should call themselves American, period. By hyphenating our nationality