> Do you have an indian passport? Are you of official dual nationality? If not, then you are an American.
In fact, you do consider yourself to be some kind of authority about who and what is an American?
> If you wish to identify yourself as Indian-American, you are free to do so. But... you are an American.
And you are actively pushing a false dichotomy!
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I had a lengthy explanation of how we're failing to see eye-to-eye here and what experiences I've had that you may not be aware of.
But instead of investing time proofreading it, I considered it for a minute and then deleted my post, because I'm pretty sure you're just an asshole and you won't try to understand it anyway. Why would you? You've got all the answers. You obviously can't see what a dick move it is to stand on a soapbox dictate the cultural identities of other people.
Otherwise, I'd have to imagine that you wouldn't do it. Unless you're a sociopath.
So you're an asshole and/or a sociopath, but probably a shitty person either way.
Plenty of people are willing to acknowledge and embrace my Indian-ness; I don't feel invalidated by some bigoted troll. Good luck in your life dude, I'm sure it won't be filled with mediocrity and resentment!
Secondly, your nationality is defined by your passport. If it says you are American, then guess what, you are American. I have no idea what your problem is, but remember this. By referring to yourself as Indian-American, you are implicitly implying White-Americans are the true Americans.
If you don't get it by now, I have nothing left to say to you. Good luck in life mate, but try to be more fact based and less irrationally emotional.
It is astonishing that you can make the statement of yourself that you are culturally Indian -- so you apparently understand the concept of cultural identity -- but then turn-around and fail to grasp that, when other people say they are Indian-American, they are not making a statement about a field in their passport.
There are no facts in contention here, because you are making a straw man argument -- attacking my argument as though I were making statements about my nationality. I believe you are being intentionally obtuse by disregarding the fact that it is a statement about cultural identity, which apparently you are fully capable of understanding.