Could one problem be...

[Dill]

(11-02-2016, 02:17 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: I'm sitting here playing WoW, reading the Bengals Message Boards and thinking about all the different people we have in the United States. Could one of the problems, well not problem really but a reason we have so many problems, be that we have no national identity?

Sure, we are all Americans but that's pretty much as far as it goes. We all trace back to somewhere else and then we try to identify as wherever it is our ancestors came from. Family trees and ancestry is big business these days as people figure out where it is we came from.

We classify ourselves as African-American, German-American, Scot/Irish-American and so on. When asked, we sometimes say we are American but most of the time we will give our origin before putting American.

I guess there's no getting away from it though since we all want to be unique, that special little snowflake when it comes to who we are.

Has anyone really checked all the snowflakes, or even most of them? 

I have a feeling most of us are not so special.