This is the post that started it.Okeefenokee wrote:This is horseshit. The vast majority of colonists came here with deep loyalty to Britain, and is why the vast majority of colonists didn't take part in the revolution.doc_loliday wrote:Unless you're the descendant of a conquistador, you aren't the descendant of someone that came here to conquer. The vast majority of white Americans are simply descendants of people that left their country because they thought they'd have a better life. They didn't owe their homeland shit. An African in Africa is as tied to Africa as you are. They have their own free will and don't belong to their state.
Retract your nonsense.
It's completely false. Immigrants are almost universally tied to where they came from. Nearly none of the immigrants who have ever come to the US, or any other nation, came with a full rejection of where they came from.
I don't even have a problem with the idea that people from place X will be representatives of people from place X when they go to place Y. That's simply natural.
This stupid idea that immigrants are automatically rejecting everything from where they are from, simply because they chose to move, is where I have a problem.
It's not true. If it were true, we'd have the world monopoly on anti-collectivist ideology.