Do white Americans consider themselves just "American" or is heritage important over there?

Do white Americans consider themselves just "American" or is heritage important over there?

White Americans who aren't trailer trash talk about their heritage often.

It seems the only heritage people care about is Irish.

it's mentioned in passing but no one really cares how much of a quadroon you are

Heritage is important for history and behavioral traits, but with the exception of the beaners, the niggers, and the micks on paddy's day, most just consider themselves Americans.

Immigrants care. their kids who are born here care less. Their kids care even less. Finally their kids stop caring at all because they're fully American by 3 generations.

heritage is somewhat important you see white people claiming German, Scottish, Irish,Norwegian , Italian and other nationalities. But america more or less disintegrates previous national identities into a purely American one. at-least that is what white people do.

Some people care more than others but mostly it's just for banter.

In the Midwest we're mostly German and have German festivals and shit all the time.

Italians and Irish have their stuff.

Just American.

We tell people our lineage because it isn't always obvious like it is in the rest of the world.

I'm Texan before American. This is true for all natural born Texans I'd imagine.

Nah, that's not true from my experience. Irish is definitely really common though, but you have a decent amount of people talking about their Scottish, Italian, Norwegian/Swedish or Polish heritage.

As a general rule if an American says they're "Irish" or "Italian" or what the fuck ever fraction of their ancestry they've decided to be that week they don't mean much of anything by it.

Depends highly on region.

People talk casually about it, if they have a heritage. Older relatives like to talk about where their parents or grandparents immigrated from, or if they were one of the people to come over on the Mayflower, etc.

Then you have places like Minnesota where people actively call each other racial epithets like "Mick" or "Wop" or "Pollack", etc.

A lot of Americans like knowing where their ancestors are from. With the exception of Italians and Mexicans, most consider themselves Americans first. Italian Americans and Mexican Americans always consider themselves Italians or Mexicans first, Americans second. For Mexicans I can understand because they're eternally butthurt about America and Americans have an inner hatred for Mexico, but why Italians don't consider themselves Americans I'm not really sure.

When it comes to the Irish (one of if not the largest besides German if we're counting Scotch-Irish/Ulster Scots, who make up a considerable chunk of white American ancestry in most of the eastern half of the country), a lot of Americans just use it as an excuse to drink and party in March. There are a lot of Americans with Irish ancestry, but most don't consider themselves 'Irish' and don't really know much about the country's political troubles and everything that's come from it. I've noticed a lot of Irish get pissed when Americans call themselves 'Irish'.

I think Europeans in general misunderstand what Americans mean when they say 'I'm German/Irish/English/French/etc', because we're not saying we're from that country, we're talking about where our grandparents, and great grandparents came from. You can chalk it up to either being about honoring how we came to be Americans or just special snowflake syndrome.

My great grandparents were from Russia but honestly Russia has such a dark and bloody history that I tend not to acknowledge it.

The most degenerate "white" Americans that I have seen are Irish
I FUCKING hate them

"I've noticed a lot of Irish get pissed when Americans call themselves 'Irish'"

Where I'm originally from in Kentucky, we have a lot of Irish immigrants even still. One of the bars in my hometown is an Irish owned bar and all the mick owners get fucking furious over St. Patrick's day. They basically kick the shit out frat boys wearing green hats every year. Pisses them right off. Call them "plastic patties"

just American.

I wasn't raised with german or english or french values. I was raised with American values. The best thing people living in The United States of America can do for their standing is to un-hyphenate themselves.

It pains me to admit most coal burners here seem to be of Irish descent

They talk about it, but it's just a game of pretend. Moreover, most of them don't even know their own ancestry so they just pick something and go with it.

Yes, it's massively retarded, but there's nothing to be done about it. Most areas have been culturally assimilated to the predominant Saxon culture tbqh

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My parents were both born here; that makes me an American, by definition.

my nigger

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I can attest to this.

>Go to catholic school as a kid
>most of classmates are of Irish or Italian descent (no fucking surprise there)
>The plastic paddies do nothing but prattle on about "muh Irish pride" and often get in trouble for doing stupid shit like smoking marijuana and coming to school with bloodshot eyes

In my family, we talk about our Native American heritage often. I don't personally know any indians, just means some sqaws were mass raped by my European ancestors

I live on the east coast, from my experience- it just depends on the person. Personally I love my heritage and researching my family and shit, can't get enough of it.

teddymind

i've always believed that to be american, you need to be that 3rd generation that assimilates. By that time, they dont speak anything but english, they enjoy the benefits of capitalism, and usually dont have many ties to the dumb traditions their parents and grandparents still cling onto.

>is heritage important over there?
Are you saying there is no such thing as American Heritage?
Insulting us will not fix your Muslim problems or make your country stop being a communist Orwellian shithole mate

Only white guilt cuckolds aren't proud of their heritage here.

Not at all on the Irish OP. Though most people turn Irish on St Paddies to get shit faced. The Irish has a hard time initially in America. They took the brunt of anglo-burger self preservation socially and had poor living standards, poor jobs, poor wages, poor land, poor prospects. They weren't even Irish anymore, and all they had was each other. Now, in places like Boston, they're called plastic paddies, because they are entirely assimilated and no where near as tough/alcoholic as they used to be.

The area I'm from, heritage is a important socially, but not essential. To not know where your family has at least most of its' roots from is considered eccentric and not in a good way. We sort of have our own distinct culture, by American standards we have a rich culture.

Its mostly French and German, mixed with some kind of Sioux or Cherokee. But there are English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Swiss, Spanish, Scandinavian, Italian, Polish (I've even seen some "Prussian" with distinctly Prussian but anglicized last names b/c there family came here when Prussia was still a thing). There are often tickets or customs passed down traditionally in the family, but its kind of rare.

>tomato and lettuce under the meat instead of on top of the cheese

>most of them don't even know their own ancestry
You're so full of shit it's ridiculous
Get off my clay and back to whatever shithole you belong to because you're not American

>i've always believed that to be american, you need to be that 3rd generation that assimilates. By that time, they dont speak anything but english, they enjoy the benefits of capitalism, and usually dont have many ties to the dumb traditions their parents and grandparents still cling onto.


i've always believed that to be american, you need to be that 3rd generation that assimilates. By that time, they dont speak anything but english, they enjoy the benefits of capitalism, and usually dont have many ties to the dumb traditions their parents and grandparents still cling onto.
jew just got a stiffy

That looks so good.

American by choice, Texan by the grace of God.

Heritage is kind of important to me. My cousin is a genealogy nut, and has trace my paternal line through our arrival in America in Maryland, back to Ireland, and back to Scotland. Lots of Presbyterian preachers, and one of them is actually mentioned in some John Knox book getting converted. But to be honest popular American culture is shit. Our real contributions are our commitment to freedom and the codification of those in our bill of rights. Fuck Islam.

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in my expirence a whole lot of us do talk about our ancestry if it comes up

>You're so full of shit it's ridiculous
Nope, this has proven
>Get off my clay and back to whatever shithole you belong to because you're not American
I have to relate to a foreign culture to be American? Kek, you heritagefags are hilarious.

Heritage is considered pretty important.
They do cultural-exchange events in elementary schools around here. I can remember being a kid a bringing in pierogi and kopytka for my 4th grade classmates.
Statehood pride is also pretty important. I consider myself a Michigander first and foremost. I imagine it's similar overseas?

American first, lineage second. Family roots are important, but being American is even more so important. A lot of us do seem to value our heritage, it's especially true if you're an Italian. Or an Irish on St. Patrick's Day.

I never call myself German-American or Italian-American, I just say that my family came from Germany and Italy. I don't even bother saying American because the sentence and lack of accent already implies that I am American and 99% of the time, the other person is American too so it would be superfluous. Traveling abroad though, always 100% of the time I'll say American and not even bother with the family lineage.

White American IS American. That is our heritage.

white american isn't a thing.

HANG YOURSELF YOU LADENHOSEN WEARING FAG!

Aaaannnnd now I want pierogies.

>tfw Celt-Slav master race

I used to. But then my home countries got so fucking cucked that I'm embarrassed to be associated with Europe.

You're just saying this because you don't want to look like Mexicans

"muh heritage" Americans are worst Americans

Amen

It quite obviously is.

kike

Spot the cuck with inferior hertiage

A lot of people care about heritage for some dumbass reason. Every nationality fights and fucks and drinks, it's a load of shit.

If you're white, and born in america, you're american, nothing else.

Damn, that's pathetic. You people are worse than the Mexicans.

>Translator's note: I'm jealous that I can't dress like you without being called a racist in the Islamic Kingdom

Come over and I'll fix some up for you. Summertime is officially here and it's hot. I'll throw in a chilled bowl of borscht ;)

Okay I'll give you a mulligan with Detroit. What is there to be proud about in Michigan?

I'm proud of my German heritage. I've really been wanting to find out if my ancestors were nazis or not.

Basically this. After a few generations, nobody gives a fuck.

So obvious that you don't have badass heritage or you're a limp wristed cuck

This is an example of a cultureless burger OP.

Although to an extent, he is correct, because people who take great pride in their roots and bring such things up too often are insufferable.

>worship a foreign culture or you're a cuck

THE THEFT OF RIGHTFUL WISCONSIN CLAY

>This is an example of a cultureless burger OP.
Precisely the opposite. He at least has American culture, whereas the heritage fags are neither here nor there.

Everyone gives a fuck. No one considererd themselves americans excpet teabaggers

Stfu limp wristed idiot

muh heritage

A lot of scenic beauty, especially in the UP. Proud to have lived in Marquette for five years.
Detroit is a pit. I grew up less than 20 miles from the city. Not the best in the Midwest. But it has its perks.
Grand Rapids is pretty nice for a mid-sized city.
Yooper independence when?

What's your heritage kiddo

Basically no white people here know their heritage, and even less care about it. Unless you are Greek, Irish, or Turkish (ie: not white) it doesn't come up. I live in the southern states.

American :^)
stay mad

My family has been living here for over 300 years, I'm an American. I don't know shit about Wales.

Wenn du dich so gekleidet bist, und doch kann kein Deutsch, sollst du dich schießen.

I've learned two things since learning German. Germans are really corny, un-fun people, and German-Americans who view themselves as being somehow actually German are the fucking gayest faggots in the world.

No one really cares unless asked, except annoying """""Irish""""" and sicilian-moor rape babies on the east coast.

Some sandnigger asked me if my last name was Swedish once lol. thank god it's not

that burger looks tasty

Family comes from all over the British isles, mostly Ireland and Northern Ireland. I respect where my family originally comes from but I am American, not Irish or English. God save the queen though

a-anymore senpai?

What are those fucking badass fish? Pike? Do you have a lot of pike? I think I could hang up there for the summer

These cucks probably live in the south

>ladenhosen

"American" is not a heritage you retards

The x-American tendency I think was greatly the product of an 1960's/1970's grasp at an ethnic identity when it became no longer appropriate or cool to just be White and especially not a WASP. Before that people may have acknowledged their ancestors were of x nationality and they took pride in it but would rarely claim that as an ethnicity. It holds true in different areas, of course, the Scandinavian Americans out west hold to a lot of knowingly superficial Scandinavian identifiers but actually are almost socially identical to actual Scandinavians baring actual socialism.
>by that I mean they're stupid, dirty, and don't have a sense of humor

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Well my dad's family came from scotland in 1784 and my mom's family didn't come from sweden until 1910. I consider myself half american/half swedish. After over 200yrs, I think you should throw your heritage out the window.

>there will never be a Wisconsin version of the IRA to take back Northern Wisconsin from Michigan
MICHIGAN OUT YOUR BROTHERS IN THE SOUTH WANT YOU BACK

First and foremost American. Heritage is second, mostly an excuse to get drunk on certain dates. St. Patty's for the Irish, Oktoberfest for the Germans, everyday for the Native Americans.

Show me a 3rd or 4th generation immigrants who gives enough fucks about their heritage to consider themselves a German, Dane, or whatever instead of an American.

People celebrating Oktoberfest or St Patrick's Day doesn't count, those are just excuses to eat brats and get hammered.

Not from there, I just want my state to be whole again. ;_;

Incest is a trait among the whites

You are american not half that and half this. Swedes would laugh at you If you told them that you are half swedish since they came here as easly as "1910"

>tfw white Australian
>have full Italian name
>people think I'm 1st generation Italian
>know max 2 words
>my closest italian relative is my namesake grandad

I mean at least i can tell people to call me Tony but it's kinda annoying.

Never knew. Mother was adopted, and dad's side of the family has been here since at least before the civil war. Have an anglo surname, but that's probably just from their integration.

Damn that is gorgeous. Is that the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee?

Depends- generally we know at least some of our family history, but most of us are so mongrelized that it can't really create a specific identity. I'm broadly half Germanic, but the only German thing I've done is go to an Oktoberfest thing once. The truth is we aren't enculturated to take pride in our identity because everyone is afraid of being called a racist. America is schizophrenic about race- on the one hand it's an underlying obsession, but people, especially in academia, will also try to deny that race even exists.

Check3d

>American
>Culture

Even putting up the front that this country isn't a sort of business-soul crushing, culturally void meat grinder makes you sound precisely like a cunt. Big gulps, selfies the Kardashians and multiple mortgages is not a fucking culture.

Maybe at one point of time before the melting pot meme we had culture. I wish we did have a legit American culture, but it doesn't exist user. There are very small pockets of culture that exist sometimes. Usually until they are inevitably monetized, sold and destroyed.

The only people that mock the muh heritage types ARE cultureless SWPL burgers though and try to refute this.

Protip: You can't.

I wouldn't be so hard on them if they actually learned something about their roots, like their ancestors' native languages or anything apart from dressing up like a fag a few times a year to get drunk and act like a fucking prick.

Honestly, I'd actually encourage white Americans to start expressing ethnic pride, considering how non-white ethnic groups have turned their own identities into political weapons. But it's a lot more than wearing green and drinking shitty beer.