[MajorBill]

It's great that The Villages has many clubs recognizing customs of the many countries that sent immigrants to the US over the centuries. They focus on celebrating the cultural heritages of those countries.

I was inquiring about a discussion group of those who -- because of the ever changing nature of child citizenship rules -- are considered (or consider themselves) 1st generation Americans. I consider myself 1st -generation because a) I experienced the separateness of being 'a foreigner' by school and employers during my pre-college school years; b) the citizenship rules for 'natural birth' and 'foreign birth' has had many changes since WW II; and c) even the federal government struggled with my citizenship status decades after the Federal court ruled on the question in my case. It was not until 1966 (13 years after my birth) that only 1 parent had to be of US citizenship if a child was born outside the borders of the USA; and then only if serving honorably for the US Armed Forces, a US government agency, or certain international organizations; and the birth was was reported/claimed to the appropriate embassy/consulate.

OBTW: Unless our parentage is of "Native American' bloodlines, we all are descendants of 'immigrants'.