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nirvana_slash_archive2022-05-02 10:07 pm
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Quote: Real Americans (1991)
Krist: We're not Americans! We are the children of a genocide that was perpetrated against the natives many years ago. We have inherited all of this, but we are not stupid enough to accept it.
Dave: You can't call yourself American. You know, all of us are from--Kurt and I are German and Irish, Chris is Yugoslavian. There's no such thing as an American.
Kurt: The Americans are the Indians.
Krist: That was genocide, what happened to the Indians.
Dave: They're native Americans.
-Interview with Gian Carl Chirico
Rome, 1991
Archivist's note: This interview was translated into Italian and then back into English, so some nuance may have been lost.