Oh I LOVE pierogies!!!!! I used to stand in line for mine every week!!!! When the owner went on vacation, I had to go to McDonald's..............she spoiled me!!!
Oh! McDonald's is nothing compared to pierogies! In Pennsylvania we have them at all the high school sports events and they're always home made. I'm spoiled too :)
The only place I could find pierogies is on Fourth Street mall, close to where I once worked. (our department kept moving us all over the place!!!! we had to keep looking for some place to buy lunch from!!!) Today, I don't where to find pierogies! I want the one that I bought from that lady on Fourth Street mall about 30-years ago!!!!!!! (yeah, she spoiled me good!!!!!)
Yaqui, Irish, German, Scandinavian, and Spanish. But I have Japanese and Canadian citizenship in addition to American, so the context of the question matters.
I am AMERICAN, born and bread. My ancestors we Old World English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, as far as I know. Does that make me anything more than an American? NO, do I feel a need to hyphenate my name to know the I am and AMERICAN NO. To be honest, the only true Americans are those the lives here before this became an English Colony, and even before that. Not knowing what the first peoples inhabiting this land called it. It is they who were the First. So I have to go on what this country became known as when it was made a free country. And that being the case. Everybody living he at the time became AMERICANS in way of thinking, even those held as slaves became so. Heritage is not comparable with nationality. Your heritage is all those who came before you in your family tree. Your nationality is the country you were born in and whatever country your parents we citizens of at the time, and or whatever country you were given citizenship of. So in my opinion if you have to hyphenate your name to understand the difference in your family heritage and your nationality. I think your defeat the purpose of the meaning of your Nationality. As I don't think their is any distinction on being an AMERICAN. You either are or you are not. I don't see the Hinze Fifty Seven European Caucasians li...
I am AMERICAN, born and bread. My ancestors we Old World English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, as far as I know. Does that make me anything more than an American? NO, do I feel a need to hyphenate my name to know the I am and AMERICAN NO. To be honest, the only true Americans are those the lives here before this became an English Colony, and even before that. Not knowing what the first peoples inhabiting this land called it. It is they who were the First. So I have to go on what this country became known as when it was made a free country. And that being the case. Everybody living he at the time became AMERICANS in way of thinking, even those held as slaves became so. Heritage is not comparable with nationality. Your heritage is all those who came before you in your family tree. Your nationality is the country you were born in and whatever country your parents we citizens of at the time, and or whatever country you were given citizenship of. So in my opinion if you have to hyphenate your name to understand the difference in your family heritage and your nationality. I think your defeat the purpose of the meaning of your Nationality. As I don't think their is any distinction on being an AMERICAN. You either are or you are not. I don't see the Hinze Fifty Seven European Caucasians listing themselves as having to define themselves as European/Americans, in order to know that they are AMERICANS first, and whatever their heritage makes them second. Because if you boil it all down those of use living here today, can trace our heritage back to whatever country of origin our ancestors were born in. And by having to identify ones self with the ancestral home land before the country that they are citizens of is ridiculous to say the least. I don't think that anybody in this country who is a citizen should have to hand a sign around their neck stating what their heritage is. It it ever becomes necessary
to show the meaning of being proud of your citizenship, and showing your loyalty, than being called an AMERICAN then the meaning of being an AMERICAN becomes shattered in definition, And we will all have to go back to our last known Ancestor to hyphenate the meaning of being AMERICAN.
I was born, raised and live in Edinburgh. So I was born Scottish / British.
My mums side of the family are from the US (Louisiana and Texas on my grans side and Mississippi on my papas) and my dads side are from Glasgow.
My grans folks were variously from France, Italy, Ireland and Germany. My papas folks were from Holland.
I`m Russian. My father is Russian. My mother is Russian. My grandmothers and grandfathers are Russians. :)
I see everyone has a rich genealogies. But don`t I.
English heritage pretty much straight through going back a long long way on both sides really never got to revved up over that anyway. American and not looking backward.
Well, right here on the Internet, open for The Whole World to investigate; I am on page 67-83 or some such (it changes a lot), of The Descendents of Jean Fruge (Which is very much French; pronounced John Froo-Jhay) but my people arrived here in the USA (Paternal & Maternal) a Half Century prior to it even being The USA and several of those men married Indian Women . . . Which made them Squaw Men; but other than that I am actually French Creole as well as "Creole" too . . . Let's just say that my Maternal Grandmother appeared to be of African Descent. I have blue eyes and let's just say that about 50% of my Clan is made up of Blonds. Which is very "Un-French" and "Un-African" like; as well as American Indian (Cherokee; was my Paternal Grandmother.) . . .
Today, I don't where to find pierogies! I want the one that I bought from that lady on Fourth Street mall about 30-years ago!!!!!!! (yeah, she spoiled me good!!!!!)
to show the meaning of being proud of your citizenship, and showing your loyalty, than being called an AMERICAN then the meaning of being an AMERICAN becomes shattered in definition, And we will all have to go back to our last known Ancestor to hyphenate the meaning of being AMERICAN.
My mums side of the family are from the US (Louisiana and Texas on my grans side and Mississippi on my papas) and my dads side are from Glasgow.
My grans folks were variously from France, Italy, Ireland and Germany. My papas folks were from Holland.
I see everyone has a rich genealogies. But don`t I.
I now live in Finland and my culture and traditions came with me :)