3 metallic hair one pink megaman <| sep |> I can ' t speak for everyone , but can say why it matters a bit in my family . The country where some of my ancestors came from didn ' t politically exist for various times over the past several hundred years , having various foreign governments take it over . At times , their language was banned . It was a relative of mine who published the first newspaper in the native language , needing to have it smuggled in , because printing there was illegal . It was that guy ' s nephew who moved to the US . Official US forms that were filled out by the government list his nationality as that of a country he despised . When he could fill in forms for himself , he ' d write in his actual country of origin . Over a few generations , the language has been completely lost by the family in the US . Still , when the country where my name comes from declared independence again , my family was pretty excited . So , that ' s why it ' s being aware of what your ancestors did , why , and to use that as a point of reflection to give perspective on the world , how and why it is the way it is , and how and why you are the person you are in the place you are . All that said , I ' ve spent lots of my adult life as an immigrant to different European countries , and I just say I ' m American . If people ask where my name comes from , I don ' t say America though I tell them .