Crevecoeur's The First American Groups

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The first American group who are “ farmer-industrious, optimistic, upwardly mobile, family-oriented, socially responsible, a new man given new hope in the new world, a lover of both hearth an earth, a builder of communities”(p. 104). Crevecoeur defines the first American group as freedom seekers, looking for freedom and having a better social life, take an action and responsibility for the society their belong to. They work hard and hoping to provide better life for their families and build a better society. Another kind of American, “ A kind he though would fade away with the raw frontier that had created him. This kind lived alone or with a slattern woman and a litter kids out in the woods”( p. 105). This kind they isolate themselves from

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