[Jennifer31044]

You aren’t the only one to hold that opinion, but I would like to offer a different perspective. When you see they hyphens, you assume that people are trying to categorize themselves as something other than plain old Americans. When I see the hyphens, I see people trying to categorize themselves as Americans in a country that has a long history of categorizing non-WASPs as something other than Americans. For example – until recently Mexican-Americans were commonly refered to as Mexican or Spanish. They weren’t called Americans. By hyphenating Mexican-American, people were standing up to proclain their American-ness.

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Name : Jennifer31044, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 30, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Enginner, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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