Quote Originally Posted by ChattanCat View Post
I guess if it wasn't for my last name, I wouldn't have a heritage at all...
This is an attitude I've never completely understood. You have a very rich heritage -- you're an American! It was your people who invented the cotton gin and the reaper. Your people built the Empire State Building, and rebuilt large portions of the world after the Second World War. An American wrote Last of the Mohicans, and another wrote My Life on the Mississippi!

As an American, you're the inheritor of a great tradition of innovation and hard work. And the best part? Anyone can be an American!