Hyphenated America

To continue the assault on our country, and its principles the anti-Americans are at it again. Mr. Chavez believes that you can not be an American without a hyphen and that it is wrong not to use it. So you want to be hyphenated? You feel less than an American without one? Well drag you sorry butt back to ole Mexico so you can be Mexican unhyphenated of course.

“The reaction of European-Americans ranged from hostility and confusion to outright denial.”

Or maybe people do not care, after living here all their life this is their home, hence why our ancestors moved here to start with. Incase this dimwit has forgotten, we the unhyphenated Americans are not to well loved by the Europeans so why would I consider to associate myself with them? Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D address the issue with this Mexican, sorry I meant to say Mexican-Un-American by using *gasp* common sense.

For most of us Americans, the essence of being an American does not include the use of a hyphen because we do not need the added 'security' of belonging, or having allegiance to, more than one place, country or ancestry. America is enough for us and we simply have no need for anything 'more.' We are proud to be Americans and are duly insulted when we are asked to incorporate a hyphenated attachment by dredging up our past ancestry, in order to append a nationality that would ultimately 'dilute' our esteemed title of 'American.'

Yes, it is important to know you ancestry and the possible reasons why your ancestors came to the United States, most likely it would have been for a better life. With idiots like these no wonder why we need affirmative action, I feel so much less of an American now.