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They identify themselves as just“American”
http://www.sina.com.cn 2002/06/10 09:08  金羊网-新快报

  More Americans are forsaking their European ancestries and calling themselves simply "American", according to USA Today on June 5.

   The number of people who claim German, Irish, English or most other European descents dropped sharply since 1990, according to Census data released on June 4.

   In 2000, people reported 38.8 million fewer European ancestries, an 18.6% drop.

   But 7.6 million more told Census that at least one of their ancestries is "United States or American." That''s up 58%.

   Ancestries logged by recent immigrants from Asia and Spanish-speaking countries increased 28% to 91.6 million. They fall under an "other ancestries" category that will be detailed by the Census Bureau later this summer.

   The European ancestry numbers mark the beginning of a new chapter in American assimilation. "Ancestry in the U.S. changes over time," says William Frey, a demographer at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, Calif. "We're going to see these European ancestries fadesintosthe background. ... We're all Americans now."

大部分美国人不识老祖宗

  越来越多美国人“抛弃”了他们的欧洲祖先,并称自己是纯正美国人。据美国6月4日发表的人口普查报告显示,认为自己是欧洲人后裔的人数比起1990年大幅下降。

  据《今日美国》报报道,2000年,3880万美国人的祖先来自欧洲,人数比上次的普查下降了18.6%。但是,在这部分人中,58%,即多于760万的美国人认为自己只是至少有一方的祖先是“美国人或美洲人”。

   而近年从亚洲和西班牙语国家移民到美国的人总数达到916万,比十年前上升了28%。他们将会在稍后被美国人口普查局列入不同的人口范畴。

  事实上,越来越多在美国的欧洲后裔在新的国度里被同化。加州圣莫尼卡弥尔肯学院的人口学家费瑞认为,时间改变了这些来到美国的(欧洲)祖先,而且这种所谓的欧洲血统在这个大环境下消失,他说:“我们现在都是美国人了。”




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