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

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Yes
82% 1033 votes Total: 1259 votes
No
18% 226 votes

by TruXter

Yes, Everyone has teh right to be treated as poorly and as nicely as everyone else. Everyone should be considered the same. As soon as everyone acts the same as everyone else, then they are truly the same as everyone else. will that happen any time soon? No probably not.Turn on the news, walk down the street. Do anything and you will see the separatism created by each of the mentioned groups.

Oddly enough you will divisions as you go through a city, there are china towns which most people call it, but in sections of that china town there is the Korean,Japanese and Chinese and Vietnamese sections. It is broken down very well. Many would say it is the majority of society that oppresses them into separation.
Bill Cosby once said " you are making your children stupid" what he meant is that by purposely speaking with a fictitious accent, your kid is raised with that accent and taught to be stupid and speak stupid.there are coming and going trends where it is cool to talk with Ebonics, Ebonics changes as society adapts to it , it used to be the separation. The Ebonics issue is slowly turning into a lazy drunken slur and nearly has phased it's self out,It has no roots or connections to Africa or any other region, there was a small group of people in Louisiana that was a gathering of Jamaican ,African and French and they each taught themselves English by listening to each other which is the closest origin of Ebonics as we have, but you can not give credit or blame to 30 people.It is done to separate from the rest. There are some that want equality and there are some who say they want equality but separation without disturbance is proffered. Can't happen.

As we are dealing with an issue of people coming to America by walking across the border or swimming or flying or just driving straight across, without legal paper work showing proper medical records or proof of intention to pay taxes. The are coming here to live in the land of promises, the dream land because where they are from is oppressive and they just want to make money and get their own family here so they can become part of society. as soon as it was mentioned that the u.s.a. was going to shut the accesses down to verified persons only can cross the border, the Hispanic people went nuts and decided to go on strike. The u.s. said it would stop illegal immigration and it became that only people from Mexico where allowed at the protest. During this protest people who where mistreated by Mexico, who fled Mexico who came to the united states to escape a horrifying world of poverty, held Mexican flags during the protest.

This world is not a black and white world, there are many colors out there. If describing an event where more than one group of the above mentioned people where to be in the same area and you had to give a description of the event and happenings that where going on amongst the people people present but did not know anyone's name you would have to say something. Because there is a separatism, not only is it hair and color and histories it is personalities and desires to be different and live up to an expected image persona.
Somewhere in the near future we will all have the same skin hair and nose and at that time we will be one and there will be no separation, no desire to be called African or Chicano or Chinese or Caucasian . there will be no where to turn when deciding to call our selves separate. there will be no one to blame for our wrong doings, no one to boast for our triumphs because we thought they where better.

We do need separation to stop, but the world really is not ready yet. we still have a couple hundred years of mixing the masses to go through first.

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