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Nationality, Ethnicity, and History

 I was thinking about how the rest of he world is more culturally advanced than the U.S. because they have been around longer and the people within those geographic locations have been smelted together even as the governments rose or fell It has only been a little over 200 years since America was colonized. Other parts of the world there has been war, trade, and cultural advancement towards a common goal as one people. Before the U.S was colonized only native Americans lived there. (and the nationality label "Native American" which I do not see as a fitting name because it is not specific enough, but maybe that is the point it does not need to be.)
     But when you are talking about America you could be saying north america south america or central america. The term "America" is a very broad term. Ideally I would think you would be able to call "Native Americans" by their tribe names but there are very few organized tribes left and so that might not be the best plan either.
     As time passes and people learn to integrate into one people in a nation the past will truly become the past and you will only be know as  a person from a country with clear political boundaries with (x) heritage. But even then you cannot say you are "An American with French heritage" as most of western Europe has coalesced so much in the past, as early as tribal alliances, or any treaty for that matter between two nations brings them that much more together. I believe this is why the rest of the world is more culturally advanced, they have had more time to come together and the US has only been around for approximately 235 years.
     And nationality, no one person is of one nationality or another, but of many. To my knowledge there is no pure blooded German (as ironic as it is because "German" in English came from a word meaning genuine) or any other ethnicity or nationality.

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