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How long must a person's family live in a place to be considered from that place?
Example #1: Native American apologists like to say how white people are immigrants, interlopers, if you will. Yet many white people's families have been in the US for generations, centuries.
Example #2: Is a 5th generation white farmer in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe an African? If said farmer were to emigrate to the US would they be a legitimate "African-American"?
In both examples both people know nothing about, nor do they identify with their long past national heritage, in any significant way.
If my observations are correct, it also seems that most people on the liberal side of the table would defend concepts such as "birthright citizenship" that bestows (in theory) full acceptance upon people born into a new society, but will then bristle at the thought of a person whose lineage has been here for generations the same unconditional acceptance.
How long must a person's family live in a place before all the conditional labels be cast off for said person to be considered from that place?
Not simple questions.
IMO in order to answer I'd have to ask: Did the person come to the area legally? If not, they need kicked out asap. If so are they willing to accept and live by the dominate culture's rules/laws? If not, they shouldn't be accepted until they do. If so, then they become a part of that area. Note: This doesn't mean giving up their own culture unless part of that culture involves breaking the law of the area.
Should this be applied to 200 years ago? Nope. Why? Because what happened 200 years ago happened and there's nothing that you or I can do to change it. We can only affect what happens now and if current and future generations are properly taught, what happens in the future.