Vivek Ramaswamy Says ‘Heritage Americans’ Aren’t Real: ‘Either You’re an American or You’re Not’

[rangerrebew]

Vivek Ramaswamy Says ‘Heritage Americans’ Aren’t Real: ‘Either You’re an American or You’re Not’
 
Jasmyn Jordan20 Dec 20252,011
 
Vivek Ramaswamy dismissed the idea of “Heritage Americans” as illegitimate during remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, directly challenging a narrative he says is gaining traction among some segments of the “online right.”


“There’s a different vision of American identity that’s emergent in certain corridors of the online right,” Ramaswamy said during his speech on Day 2 of the conservative youth conference. “And it says that your identity as an American is based on your lineage. That how long you have been in the country, your lineage and your genetics tied to the blood and soil of the country, determines how American you are.”

He described the “Heritage American” concept as the belief that the most authentic Americans are those descended from families present during or before the Revolutionary era. While acknowledging that the idea is gaining popularity, he dismissed it as “about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up,” adding that “there is no American who is more American than somebody else.”

Ramaswamy framed his view of national identity in absolute terms. “It’s not like the left. They believe in this nonbinary stuff. There’s no nonbinary American. It is binary. Either you’re an American or you’re not.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/20/vivek-ramaswamy-says-heritage-americans-arent-real-either-youre-an-american-or-youre-not/

[rangerrebew]

So, he's saying there are no "African" Americans or any other kind of "whatever" Americans?

[Bigun]

Sad to say it but many heritage Americans have become so lazy and complacent that it has come to pass that there are now many first or second gen Americans (the real ones that seek to fully assimilate) more knowledgeable and in tune with our founding values than some of the originals.

[Kamaji]

He’s correct.

[GtHawk]

Theodore Roosevelt famously stated, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism," emphasizing that true Americans should not identify with their ethnic backgrounds but rather as Americans first. He believed that hyphenated identities could lead to divided loyalties and threaten national unity.

[Bigun]

Theodore Roosevelt famously stated, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism," emphasizing that true Americans should not identify with their ethnic backgrounds but rather as Americans first. He believed that hyphenated identities could lead to divided loyalties and threaten national unity.

Here's the quote:

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

 Theodore Roosevelt October 12, 1915