Belial

actually, I think you're wrong here. If your parent move to America and you are born in America, you're born an American. Even if you still have Swedish and German blood and still hold on to your past cultures, it doesn't matter anymore. After all, what makes you Swedish or German? Simple having ancestors who were born there, those ancestors could very well have moved to Sweden or Germany some time ago also, so you probably are no more German and American than you are American, the deciding factor is where you are born.

Sneakiecat

Sure, you would be a citizen of America. But you can't just cut off any cultural aspects. I have a friend who was born in Vietnam and moved here when he was six. If he marries a Vietnamese (as in born in Vietnam) woman and they have kids, they aren't the least bit Vietnamese? I don't buy that. Now, after a couple of generations, if they start to loose the Vietnamese culture, then I think you have a case.

Dodge_Sniper

Wow, that's rare :

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Lolercause

Just having the culture of a place doesn't mean you're of that nationality though. I mean, I know plenty of white kids who act black and ghetto and they're sure as hell not from Africa.

Dodge_Sniper

Although you have a point Lolercause, that's not what we are all saying. If a member of that family is BORN in Vietnam or Mexico, then they have children in the US, then what, the kids aren't the least bit Vietnamese or Mexican? Their roots sure as hell are. People need to stop arguing about nationality, because if you think about it, we're all Mexican, African, all that good shit. Our ancestors all came from the same continent, millions of years ago. It's just a matter of where we live and how long we've lived there.

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Eyes To Zion

Well i've heard his stand up isn't actually half bad, havn't seen it myself so I couldn't comment.

His show however is extremely sub par, no doubt about that. I think i'd actually watch Dane Cook before I watched Mencia.

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Sneakiecat

Since when is acting ghetto an indicator of an African culture? And since when is Africa one big culture? I've been using culture and ethnicity interchangablely, which is a mistake on my part. You can be a different culture of your ethnic group. But most of the people I know that describe themselves by their culture/ethnicity recently (within a few generations) came to the U.S. I'm guessing that Carlos Mencia has stronger ties to his mother than father (he grew up with his maternal aunt and uncle who are Mexican). And I don't know if he's ever claimed that he is Mexican. He's always come across as Hispanic that takes jabs at Mexicans (which is one of the larger groups of Spanish speaking people in the U.S.).

TheOriginalJames

It's not about having grandparents that were born there... it's about having a German or Swedish blood line.

What's next, you're going to tell me an Asian-American doesn't have Asian blood in their system because they were born in America? I guess the Asian features they exhibit don't mean anything anymore? It's all about the blood line, not where you were born.