Re: Who are the best boxing fans in the world?

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If you are not an indigenous person then you are not an American with no hyphen. Second , all people of the USA are not the only Americans. Everyone from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America are considered American as they are from the Americas. People of the USA do not have a heritage (no inherent physical traits) or culture ( no experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. ) We are Hypenated-Mutts. The people of Mexico are more American than people of the USA as they have never had to reroot their past.
See map of Mexico before
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/mex...mexico1847.jpg . Which leads to the joke of USA telling Mexicans to go home !!!
Found a quote that was interesting from Teddy Roosevelt.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915
"If there's a better chin in the world than Pryor's, it has to be on Mount Rushmore." -Pat Putnam.
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