I am not going to get in a debate with you, because the point is, you said a lot of contradictory things in your post, but I am going to point out what you said in your own words:
Why is it so hard for people to say they are American, without having to immediately qualify it by staking a claim on some other nationality right away, as if it were shameful to be just plain American?
That right there? That is erasure. It is the expectation you are placing on a perfect stranger to excise important parts of their personal identity because you think that in hyphenating their ethnicity, they are somehow indicating shame of some sort. This is a BLATANT falsehood.
You should think about why so many people are taking exception with what you are saying. People are not getting upset over nothing. They are getting upset because of the implications of things that you are saying.
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Date: 2010-06-30 03:08 am (UTC)Why is it so hard for people to say they are American, without having to immediately qualify it by staking a claim on some other nationality right away, as if it were shameful to be just plain American?
That right there? That is erasure. It is the expectation you are placing on a perfect stranger to excise important parts of their personal identity because you think that in hyphenating their ethnicity, they are somehow indicating shame of some sort. This is a BLATANT falsehood.
You should think about why so many people are taking exception with what you are saying. People are not getting upset over nothing. They are getting upset because of the implications of things that you are saying.