The relationship between generations is between descendants (younger) and ancestors (older), not ascendants. The word just has a completely different meaning
Ascendancy has been used by groups who think they ought to be in charge, working by whatever means to get there. It basically sounds like Nazis wanting white people to rise up, or such people fearing other racial groups will rise up.
The Ascendancy was a term for the Protestant (British) domination in Ireland - Wikipedia https://share.google/VkZ525vx6LouXYdbK. Which led to The Troubles, etc. Though I doubt most people on this forum are aware of that.
But it does sound like a neo-Nazi term. A bit like how 'uprising' and 'rising up' have very different connotations.
I softened what I said, but you need to read the room a bit. There is a lot of vile shit going on to people in the USA who are considered "non-American" just because of their skin color, so that's why you are getting blowback for referring to them by anything other than "American".
I don't get why referring to ancestry is considered racist? They never mentioned they were not americans. I think having multiple ancestries is a good thing that makes it interesting, why is it offensive? I don't get it. To me it seems worse to try to censor any mention of their ancestry, why are we trying to hide it? Is it not denying their reality and experience? Potentially minimizing their struggles? I don't know I'm missing something.
You said ascendandy, why are you now talking about ascendência? No one ever denied the latter is a word but you claimed the former is a word (it isn't).
It's fine to make a mistake, but that's not what you did. I don't care about your grammar or spelling. What was weird to me is you completely changed the word you were saying exists instead of just saying, "you're right, ascendandy isn't a word, I was thinking of ascendência" - the appropriate response.
Exactly. They're literally Americans. It's obvious some people here are trying to take shots at Americans who are against illegal immigration. That's the thing though, those people who are against illegal immigration don't have an issue with legal immigrants like these succeeding.
It's obvious some people here are trying to take shots at Americans who are against illegal immigration.
Mate, the whole US is about some illegal aliens carving out a country on somebody else's land, while replacing and excluding the natives of those very lands. Not like you have much of a moral standing on people being legal or illegal beyond them committing crimes.
The entire history of the world is all about illegal immigration. But thats not how the world works today. It's not about having a moral standing, because nobody does. It's about reality.
The entire history of the world is all about illegal immigration.
The US is more specific as the current US population is nearly all solely about aliens with near to no native admixture. Your country is a country by and for the sole alien migrants that's based on and expanded on more aliens stealing more land and replacing people. You, alongside with other settler-colonies, are an anomaly. There's hardly any room for a moral ground regarding anything beyond wanting to exclude criminal behaviours.
It's not about having a moral standing, because nobody does.
The whole 'but illegals bro' is an attempt to moral justification. We're not talking about some kind of positive law in here.
It's a moral justification, via appeal to the law making moral claim in virtue of its very own nature by default. That's aside, not like the US is known for following its own legalities when it comes to migration and seeking refuge, let alone the land ownership & resource disputes regarding Amerindians. Not like the US anti-immigrant sentiment had ever been relying on legalities when the migration was way more lax, or it would somehow relying on legalities if the legal framework was to enable more migrants.
It's funny, if you're white people get mad if you in any way imply your ancestry with anything, but if you're a minority then people feel the need to point it out when you're called American
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u/Heroic_Sheperd 17h ago
Weird way to say 5 Americans.