I am a female American? Or am I a European American? Or perhaps I'm Scottish American (on my father's side)? Or maybe a British American (on my mother's side)? I guess I'm a senior American, but I haven't always been.
Seriously, I don't know how to refer to myself. It didn't used to be a problem. I had a strong sense of patriotic pride. I had a strong sense of my femininity.
I had a strong sense of my roots. I knew who I was and who I was not.
The Obama order to remove the word Eskimo in all Federal Laws begs the question, can we actually ever be politically correct enough? We must now use Alaskan Americans. Doesn't that serve to homogenize all the Alaska tribes? How is that better? Just like Native American lumps all, dare I say, Indians together. Or European Americans lumps another group of us?
I am about to the place where I'm afraid to refer to anybody using any descriptive phrase or words. This will be a boon to criminals. Let's say I rob a bank.
How will they describe me? A whitish colored, 5'6", husky person that appears to have boobs? Well that narrows it down. Geez.
Virginia Sparks
Rotonda West, Fl.
