Americans are prone to doing this because they see Irish/Polish/italian/Greek/whatever as an ethnicity and not just a nationality. It’s like a Jew is Jewish even if they’re atheists who have never gone to temple.

The reason is that “American” isn’t an ethnicity. It’s only a nationality. The US population simply has too much heterogeneity for most to consider themselves as belonging to an ethnic group called “American.” Leaving aside the native Americans, who obviously should have first claim to being called Americans but who also come from a diverse range of cultures, the closest thing to a purely American ethnicity would be the African American population, but that’s because of some very bad reasons.

And as far as there are people who do call themselves ethnic Americans, they’re often white nationalists who you probably wouldn’t want to see anyway.

This is all I get when I click on that picture. When I tried opening it externally it said hackers where trying to access my connection…