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I've noticed that people here in the US will refer to themselves as German or Irish or where ever their ancestors came from instead of just referring to themselves as American.

Has it always been this way, or have things changed?

I've noticed that people here in the US will refer to themselves as German or Irish or where ever their ancestors came from instead of just referring to themselves as American. Has it always been this way, or have things changed?

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Has it always been this way

No, but it was that way for a long time in the Northeast. Italian, Irish, and French-Canadians are more clannish. The were brought into work in the mills and cities and lived in ethnic neighborhoods, with gangs and all that. In other parts of the country it wasn't done at all in the 20th century, though it probably is now.