I attended my first college English class last Wednesday. We are to be addressing the question of the American Identity all semester long. Who is American? What is American? What sort of qualities are American? What do we do about being American?
Annoying much?
As far as I'm concerned, you are American if you accept the label. And since the word "American" has different connotations for everybody, trying to define the Identity of an American is futile.
Manifest Destiny, Sins of our Fathers. American Dream. Meritocracy. Democracy. Vietnam. Imperialism. Of the people, by the people, and for the people. Monroe Doctrine.
All of those words and phrases can be associated directly with America. But are they America?
Does anyone even care?
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