Unless your family was hunting buffalo here thousands of years ago, you're just a newbie tourist.
Can I be an American? Please! I was born here, I've lived here. I'v settled here. I own a house. My heart joys to see the mountains that I know. I miss it when I go away in a different way than I miss those far away places when I'm back here. If that doesn't make me American, what will? If I'm not a "real" American, then what am I really?
What claim does a boy have whose great-great-great-great grandparents (and before) hunted Buffalo that I don't? What whould such a boy have gained by denying me an American status?
The real last straw for me was the start of the recession, right around 2000, when I started seeing job offers that required several years
experience in twenty technologies, some of which were mutually exclusive.
What kinds of technologies are mutally exclusive? What knowledge can I have that will preclude me from having other knowledge (as far as technology is concerned)?
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Unless your family was hunting buffalo here thousands of years ago, you're just a newbie tourist.
Can I be an American? Please! I was born here, I've lived here. I'v settled here. I own a house. My heart joys to see the mountains that I know. I miss it when I go away in a different way than I miss those far away places when I'm back here. If that doesn't make me American, what will? If I'm not a "real" American, then what am I really?
What claim does a boy have whose great-great-great-great grandparents (and before) hunted Buffalo that I don't? What whould such a boy have gained by denying me an American status?