Sociology questions from the North American continent. Who is a Native American? Who are immigrants? Okay, here are my thoughts that are beyond impeachment.

 

To begin, agreed upon definitions of “immigrant” and “native”:

Immigrant
noun
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
“he’s a recent immigrant to the US from Germany”

Native
noun
a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not.
“he’s a native Californian”

Next, observation and analysis:

1.) The North American continent had no people originally. There was no sovereign country here. The first people to come here were not immigrants. They were explorers and settlers.

2.) I like the term “First Nations.” Acknowledging who got here first is honest.

3.) The term Native American applies to all people born in the US. Unless there was an earlier version of America named America before Europeans got here, that is.

4.) An immigrant is a person who moves to a land where an established, stable sovereignty exists and that person acclimates into that culture.

The United States of America exists because of European conquest. Europeans came here and took control. They did not acclimate into an existing culture. They imposed European culture and values on this continent, and they took ownership of the land. Most importantly, Europeans did this successfully for centuries now.

Europeans replaced what was here before they arrived. That is conquering, not immigrating. If these murderous Venezuelan gangs – Biden invited them in – through force took over our government, replaced our government, and held onto power, is that immigration? No. That’s America being conquered.

5.) More accurately, Europeans are settlers and colonizers on this continent. But through no honest measure are these original European settlers to be considered “immigrants.” That’s just double plus dumb false speak.

6.) Only those people who come to live on this continent where America has existed for two and a half centuries are immigrants. Legal and illegal.

Immigrant
noun
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

This isn’t semantics. I know woke likes to play loosey goosey with language, making everything relativistic like the definition of “woman”, but agreed upon definitions are fact.

And finally, the conclusions:

    • The first humans on this continent were not immigrants. They were explorers and settlers.

    • The first Europeans who came to this continent are not immigrants. They are explorers, conquerors, and settlers.

    • Immigrants are foreign nationals who come to live in the United States of America. This is the established definition of immigrant. I won’t accept a woke loosey goosey relativistic redefinition of the word “immigrant.”

    • Anyone born in the United States of America since the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a Native American. By definition.