An American Identity Created

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How is an American Identity Created?

Everybody is different. Some people are creative, nice, rude, strict, and forward. So many different verbs, but we all have friends and that makes us kind of the same as other people. America isn’t very accepting of immigrants and we all have our different reasons for that, but we don’t know what they have been through. We have it pretty good and they just want something like what we have.
Being rude to someone because you don’t like what they are isn’t the answer. If you don’t like them then don’t say anything. We all handle things different. If someone smiles at you, you don’t have to smile back, but it is nice to. Most people don’t care what people think of them and I am one of them. My point

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