Thats what Rob said on know it alls . Edit instead of some weird course of events it was said like in final destination , nobody can cheat death <| sep |> Please remember this post after this latest bit of nonsense passes without incident Trump will not ask his security detail to pay rent in Trump tower . I don ' t know how to state it more plainly . <| sep |> I can ' t upvote you enough ! <| sep |> I didn ' t say we ' d tell them they ' re not British , but they have a dual identity . They ' re both British and Indian . If someone were to tell them they are only British and have no right to say they ' re Indian it would be absurd . So maybe that ' s why it ' s weirder for your white American grandchildren of Italian immigrants to claim Italian identity than it is for an Indianlooking Brit of Indian ancestry to claim Indian ancestry . He might feel he needs to account for the way he looks , whereas the ItalianAmericans don ' t have that social pressure , however mild it is , and are therefore making a bigger deal out of their ancestry than they need to . But this ignores the fact Italians experienced a lot of racism in the U . S . , probably much more than Indians ever did in Britain . There were actual lynchings and pogroms of Italians in America , people wanted to ban them from immigrating due to the mafia and them once not being considered white . You also have to remember we do have white immigrants in Europe that continue to claim the nationality of their ancestors . In England we see this all the time with the large Italian again , Greek , Irish descended communities . You see it in France with Armenians , Argentines and Spanish , etc . The bottom line is people don ' t just magically forget where they came from . Immigrants do pass a certain culture and identity down onto their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren . It happens just as much in Europe as it does in the U . S .