So what is an real American? Is it someone who lives in America or something else? I believe the answer lies way back to the time when the first people showed up in the New Land.
We are rejects from Europe, whatever people don't like. When people in Europe dislike religious ways they just boot us out. Convicts who are in jeopardy of persecution sail for America so they die. They end up here, set up new settlements, and and that how our nation started after we broke free from England. That was 200 years ago. Now, we are the gung ho nation, who threatens other countries for our own benefit. Ever since world war two, we thought we were the greatest, no one would beat us. Is it what we have become? Just people who would kill for success? I afraid it is true. Many people may deny it, saying we are a clean country, no one is beyond compare. We are standing on one leg my friends, we are about to fall, the country of the brave is about to die.
We still get immigrants, but is it so? Does immigrant define America? To be very exact, the native Americans were before we were. That means American? I think it doesn't mean literally people born in America, it is people who pledge allegiance to our nation, people who come other shores, people who look for a better life, people who were discarded by their home nation, that is an American.
Don't you think that a lot of the immigrants who come here though come because they believes America embodies an idea of independence and freedom? Aren't there ideals and reasons to come, not just to get away? At the end we agree, that anyone who believes in this country is an American, but I think even father back there was a different goal than being rejected from your homeland.
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