No I think you are just choosing not to understand. No American says they are from anywhere but America when asked “where are you from”.

Ethnicity wise though I am not an American, despite living here my whole life. My grandparents were all immigrants or lived in closed immigrant communities with immigrant parents.

Saying you are ethnically American is like saying you belong to a native tribe. For me this would be inaccurate, and I would be forgetting the people who came here before me, suffered, and built what America is today (the good and the bad). It would also be like saying I am naturally superior or more American than an immigrant who wishes to become an American.

It’s not like Europe where someone will say “bUt mY aNcEsTors iMmigRateD 2000 yEaRs agO fRoM soMeWhEre ElSe tOo!” In America, almost everyone is an immigrant or directly descended from immigrants who existed within living memory. We must not forget this separation between nationality and ethnicity, or we may end up using this false sense of superiority to deny future Americans the ability to come here from wherever they may be.