Re: American Attitudes

[Jeffrey Miller]

Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Miller wrote:
> >
> > I would tend to agree with you, but would pose the question
> > then, of how recent a phenomenon can we trace this to being,
> > if indeed it is so.
> >
> Which phenomenon? That a country absorbs immigrants that
> keep a kind of double nationality? I think this is as
> old as the Roman Empire - probably older. A Roman
> Citizen kept a double citizenship, for example, St Paul
> was proud of being a jew and a roman. Many Roman Emperors
> were from non-Latin ancestry.


Yes, I know.

I was talking about the strong identification within the US - it hasn't
always been so.

-j-