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Continued...really today, most of us have ancestors who were colonizers or immigrants AND ancestors from the decimated native population. Some of our own ancestors may have killed some of our own other ancestors. Which is sad. But that doesn't mean WE as a people, must feel guilt or shame for what others did Hundreds of years ago. We are not them, and we can do better now. Anyway, like I said, most people are not card carrying enrolled members of a tribe. I happen to be. But I also have a whole slew of other non-native ancestors from various European nations who moved here. Like I Said to Andy Frobig below, I call it being a mutt. Half my family is native, but the other half were immigrants. This is the typical American heritage story. We should just embrace what makes us each unique and beautiful, be happy for that, and not stress what other people claim and whether it may be true or not. Cuz I don't have time in life to stress that stuff. Really, no one does. Live and let live :)

“most of us have ancestors who were colonizers or immigrants AND ancestors from the decimated native population”: I seriously doubt that “most” of us were colonizers given that the country was first populated (aside from the natives, I mean) by immigrants that England didn’t want, and sadly, I don’t think many are descended from the natives since te colonizers seemed to have killed ost of ‘em. 😰😰😰 I can believe, though, that there are 🫏🕳️ running around wrongly claiming to be descended from natives in order to try to avoid guilt and/or Andy words. (“I can’t be one of the bad ones; I’m descended from natives!” 🙄) People do all manner of s****y things for all manner of s****y reasons. 😰 But back to the topic at hand, what I don’t get is why it seems to bother sooo many people so much about what people claim as their ancestry! We’ve got people ere shouting “You’re not Irish/Polish/whatever! You live in America, and therefore you’re American!” WHY does it concern them? I don’t get it.

I agree with much of what you're saying except one thing. Everyone in this country, except those who emigrated here just recently, do in fact most likely have some ancestors from either one or many if the decimated native populations, AND one of the many colonizing or later emigrating nations (England, France, Spain, Portugal), or one of those brought for slavery during those same years (any if the many stolen African nations peoples). I say this because those people each passed down genetics, they married, interbred, and had kids for hundreds of years, leading yo our mixed population now. So even if one parent of yours literally just moved here, but marries someone who's famijy us from America, you're going to get a massive mix of genetics from those who lived here before you. I can tell you that mist families that have been here several generations, almost guaranteed, have a sliver of native ancestry, whether you look white, black, brown or in between. 1/2

2/2 - same goes for the colonizing countries. Although most natives were killed, most tribes survived in a reduced state and those genetics live on. As do those of the colonizers, and slaves. That's why America is the melting pot. And why people like me, and many others, could take a genetic test and see the rainbow of heritage that created each and every one of us. Despite the history of brutality, the result is a beautiful rainbow of citizens, still trying to work out old hatreds and feuds. I wish everyone could simply embrace our differences and celebrate each other. We are each Worth it.

Why does it matter to them? It’s ust like homosexuality: altogether too many people care what others are doing n their bedrooms. I don’t understand that, ether. Are peoples’ lives sooo good that they can’t find anything to occupy their minds and so feel the need to worry about what others are doing and saying? It’s really baffling to me!

Here we call that (jokingly), being a mutt. We're all a big mix in America. The process if how thus country was colonized made sure of that. That's ok though. It's ok to be lots of "things".

Those things are usually mutually exclusive, not mutually inclusive.