That "Muslim *****" was born in the U.S., from the reports I've heard. What's your point?I had never questioned how we Americans tend to describe our heritage in terms of the birthplace of our ancestors, no matter how long ago. Pretty much every single natural-born American is able to recite where their family is from, like "I'm German on my Mom's side, French and 1/365th Cherokee on my Dad's side." (that's not me, BTW, just a random example.) The funny thing is, we seem to be the only ones that do this...having lived in Europe, I found that someone who identified as German living in England had generally been BORN in Germany. Nobody over there seems to jump on the bandwagon of being German from 10 generations ago just for their heritage, and they think it odd that we do. It's unimportant. Nobody gives a crap, and it breeds separatism and fosters conflict. So why are we, here, so eager to recite a litany of bloodlines and cultural identities? We are a nation of immigrants, that's why, and we feel some need to define ourselves by some previous-to-us birth. That said, so what? Why do Americans hate on others for wanting to keep their culture from dying out? Americans have no real cultural history, unless you mean Native American. Do we begrudge the indigenous people their right to attempt to keep their languages, their myths, their culture intact? So why spew all the hatred?