Proud To Be An American Essay

American schools employ teachers who are taught to instruct American students starting at a very young age by way of implementing a specific communication style, organizational style, and intellectual style. According, to the standards of European traditions, each of the components of styles builds upon one another to produce a person that knows how to function in America. For example consider an African student in the fourth grade that has a writing prompt, after reading about being proud to be an American. The picture in the story displays Caucasians’ holding the flag, winning the war. The prompt suggests to the student to write why he/she is proud to be an American. The instructions give a direct order; it does not ask the student if he/she is proud to be an American. Indirectly the question is suggesting that the student …show more content…
This circumstance has a hidden lesson and that lesson is everyone in America is proud to be an American, no questions asked. This student could have experienced Americans killing one of his family members or racial slurs from people suggesting to his family to go back to Africa. In the course of the student collecting his/her thoughts it might be a challenge to locate a positive justification to being American. The haunted thoughts that reside within the student are mostly negative. However, this student’s feelings are dismissed, the student is only to focus on the story that demonstrates that being an American is something worthy to be proud of because Americans are tough and attain freedom for what they fight for.
Moving to another country poses many challenges and one of the main trails one encounters is regression. ‘Culture shock’ is a time frame of a syndrome similar to revolting. For instance, a task that once was simple becomes difficult and an individual can engage in feelings of disillusion. While visiting Paris this past summer, one of the main challenges of concern was the language