I find it baffling that some white Americans (and most of the world outside America) think white Americans are the only “real” Americans. Nobody’s ancestors were “from here” more than a few hundreds years ago, minus Native Americans whose communities have to bear the generational burden of having been slaughtered, displaced, and still routinely under-resourced. Your nationality is how you were socialized or what culture(s) you exist in, not just how you look and how that abstractly ties into some historical “identity” that you’re disrespecting while also pretending to be American. And if that were true, why wouldn’t a second generation Swedish person with no accent be held to that standard?

It’s both racism and stupidity/disrespect, like ppl not having a clue how others feel about themselves and deciding they “should” feel within a box defined by mental concepts that have nothing to do with that person’s experience of reality.