Ignore the ignoramus. You cannot cure stupid.

Ignore the jerk.

Sorry to hear this loser is harassing you. You probably don't want to get in a big fight with an idiot in a gas station, for your own safety. If he wants to see you as un-American, I don't think you're ever going to change his mind.

That was just a racist rant. Racism is everywhere and it's becoming more widespread at the moment. It's hard to take and really unfair to be judged because of the colour of your skin or any other physical attribute. Just be tough-skinned about it. Be dignified and ignore remarks as far as you possibly can, and try, when it happens, to think of other Americans who are pleasant and non-racist. There really are more of those, thank goodness. Take extra care when someone's being hateful not to engage and try to get to where other, more reasonable people are, because not only are racists sharp with their tongues, many of them don't mind being violent either.

React? Okay!

The guy was a dique!

You were born here, your parents have citizenship, HELLO, Fellow U.S.Citizen!

There is a time and a place for discussion. And there is a time and a place for walking away. And there is a time and a place for fighting.

This one...walk away. He clearly isn't interested in the truth. Anything else will likely result in an unnecessary fight.

You can't react...there is no way you can win over an irrational red neck like that guy apparently was. Sorry.

In fact I admire the VN-Americans. They have blended into their new country in a very admirable fashion. You should be proud of your parents.

Never, ever, under any circumstances refer to yourself as a hyphenated American, such as "I'm an Asian American."

Why?

Let President Roosevelt explain it to you:

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”

“This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”

“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”

“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”

“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”

Now that we have that out of the way, if you were born in the United States, you are an American. Americans come from all parts of the world, from all races, all ethnicities, all religions.

What you encountered is a stupid person, and they can be found everywhere.

That guy has his head up his a-s-s, and his kind will die out in time. Meanwhile, you have full rights and privileges of citizenship. Sorry that you crossed paths with that loser.

my thoughts are that I disagree with that person.