Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 1999/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras/political correctness
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:42:25 -0500

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Edmund William White wrote:

> I would have problems trying to address my friends by THEIR family
> lineages; uh, Russian-German-Irish-American.

Or mine: English-Scottish-Irish-French-German-Austrian-Swiss American.
However, some of my family lines have now been in the United States for
over 350 years. I wonder how long I'll have to be here before I can be
just "American?"

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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