You couldn't let them have an identity, because you were afraid they'd get too strong. But now they're rising, and you're afraid.
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European ancestry =/= European identity. Great portion of colonists considered themselves colonists first, Americans second, English last
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Genetics > identity
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The United States sure rejected other European origins, such as the Irish, the Spanish, Catholics and Anglicans
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The English are genetically part of the European cluster, so what's your point?
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That the U.S. wasn't intended as a European extension? The English did not consider themselves extensions of Spain, France, etc.
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America's purpose was to provide a nice place for the colonists and their posterity to live in. The colonists were of European descent.
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Therefore America was for the descendants of Europeans.
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Which doesn't automatically mean that it was to be an extension of European identity. America rejected European ideals, even to this day.
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