Hyphenated American
🗣️ DISCUSSION 💬
There is a problem with the epidemic of hyphenated Americans. That is, putting ethnicity before nationality in a sense. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage, whether you're an Irish Catholic or a Nigerian Christian, but putting that identity over your American identity is a problem. You are an American first.
True. Those are fine examples. But, usually in english the 'specific' goes in front of the 'general.' Latin, spanish, and greek are the opposite. So, I want to use an animal as an example. Let's use the rat snake. If we say rat snake we know that we are talking about a snake, but, if we reverse it and call it a snake rat, now we are talking about a rodent (there is no such rodent). But, maybe the point is that we are Americans. America first, Americans.