Talk:Czech American

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John Kerry cannot be called a Czech American as his parents' mother tongue was obviously German, like of the majority of the region from where they moved to Lower Austria, Austria!

• Strong disagree - this is an incorrect assumption. The mother tongue of numerous individuals of Czech descent was German. This is particularly true with the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia before World War II (which is the case for Senator Kerry). Here is one reference to support Kerry's inclusion as a Czech American.BWH76 (talk) 19:54, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

The question is how "descent" is defined. My point is that it is better to define descent by the mother tongue, not the country of origin. The Austrians (or Germans) in that region had a long history of living in that part of Moravia and the majority spoke German. I think that it would make more sense to call him an Austrian American or German American. But if you use the country where some of his ancestors were born to define his origin also Hungarian would be acceptable as Kerry's grandmother was born in Budapest.
I don't know if you wanna hear that, but within 270 000 000 28th great-grandfathers could be any important figure of history. And when you count those grand ... grandfathers from grandfather to the 28th great-grandfather there are more than one billion possible kings. Therefore Kerry could be of any descent you want. 85.127.141.243 (talk) 22:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)