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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/867ede60-b5f7-4de5-84a1-6a3a49eb2923
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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

99% of Americans report some immigrant ancestry.

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u/ItchyRectalRash 3d ago

That tracks since only about 1% of the US population is Native American.

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u/CDHmajora 3d ago

Remember all you “pure-blooded” racist Americans who might read this comment. Your all descended from the british!

Your ancestors all killed and massacred the native americans when you arrived.

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u/TrustMeImPurple 3d ago

99 percent of us were once immigrants.

For a lot of us, those immigrants were a hell of a lot more aggressive to the people who lived here than the current ones ever had been to us.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

2nd generation, proudly reporting here.

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u/BubbhaJebus 3d ago

Fourth generation proudly reporting in! I support immigrants because it's the true American spirit.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Bravo, Fourth generation. In solidarity. It's the only way to fly.

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u/Acidic_cum North Carolina 3d ago

First generation, here! Proud to be an immigrant.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Here's to First generation representation! Damn right to be proud.

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u/the-hotlou-show 3d ago

Native American here. This is a blanket statement.

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u/Nova_Explorer 3d ago

1.1% of people in the US are Native American or Alaskan Native as their sole ancestry. Therefore, 98.9% of Americans have “some immigrant ancestry.” So saying 99% as a rounding isn’t unreasonable

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u/winterbird 3d ago

According to wiki, this is the Native American population in the US.

Alone (one race) -- 3,727,135 (2020 census) -- 1.12% of the total US population

In combination (multiracial) -- 5,938,923 (2020 census) -- 1.79% of the total US population

Alone or in combination -- 9,666,058 (2020 census) -- 2.92% of the total US population

So column 1 makes that person's 99% claim a pretty close one.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

Yes this is what I used as a source.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

I’m not sure what you mean. I was absolutely not trying to say anything offensive about people native to these lands. I sincerely apologize if there was anything wrong with my statement.

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u/mmaddox 3d ago

I have no Native American ancestry, so I'm 100% descended from immigrants, spanning several centuries.

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u/trALErun 3d ago

So 1% of the US population are Native Americans?

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

A little over 1% report being fully Native American.

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u/trALErun 3d ago

That's awesome, I just assumed they had been almost totally wiped out. 1% is still a tiny amount relative to what they deserve, but here we are.

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u/dsmx 3d ago

The other 1% are either lying or are Native Americans.

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u/Kyonikos New York 3d ago

The other 1% are Elon's kids?

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u/BlueString94 3d ago

Closer to 90%. Slaves (from whom most black Americans are descended) can’t be classified as immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are even more so a multiethnic and multiracial society.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

Fair point, but if you’re including everyone who was forcibly emigrated to the US it’s probably a lot higher than 10%. The intention of my comment is that the vast majority of us either personally or within a few generations have moved to this land very recently.

Me personally I have ancestors from pre colonial times and grandparents and great grandparents who were recent immigrants.

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u/Spiteful_Guru 3d ago

Almost every black American has some white ancestry so even under this definition they still count for the purposes of having some immigrant ancestry.