Crevecoeur's The American Israel Of God

The nation that had miraculously emerged from colonial status, and reached beyond the simple terrestrial politics; The United States deserved reign as “The American Israel of God”, and many patriots were eager to affirm the relationship between national identity and theology, as well as to interpret the history of their country as a chapter of sacred history. This rhetoric of biblical analogy was an inheritance of the mission, and accordingly, while Americans believed that they could find their source analogies in biblical history, at the same time, new men and woman felt differently. That being said, Jean de Crevecoeur raised the famous question of what it is to be an American. At the same time, he answered saying that they were a new race …show more content…
Now, while formulating their different definitions of themselves and their country, and exhibiting two distinct attitudes towards the past, Crevecoeur was enthusiastic about their collective youth and the national situation in the United States, which caused them a continuing concern. Now in this day and age, it feels like the term American is used to refer to all the people that just simply come from America. Usually, the use of this term can generate some type of controversy since there are different ways of understanding it depending on where one is located. Thus, the majority of Americans say that being American is only true when you are born in the United States, but when speaking about being an American, individuals can’t speak of only one single type of identity, but of multiple ones. The word “American” is a broad word that can be used not only to designate a region but also cultural expressions, forms of government, social groups typical of the region, and international integration among countries that make up the