American Identity
What’s American identity or distingue a pride Americans, from the rest of the world? How do we identify ourselves and how other identify us? These are questions that we will need to answer to find our truth American identity. These questions become more and more difficult to answer, as America grow more diverse or as the number of immigrants from all around the world continuous to sky-rocket. Unlike other countries, since the 18th century after the American declaration of independence; The American identify have not been based off people’s racial, religious and ethnical identities. According to ezinearticle.com, previously the definition to what an American identity was at the time have focused only on liberalism and ethnoculturalism. This just means that America was identify as a land of freedom and opportunity, but was mostly looked at as a nation of white Protestants. On the other hand, in today society American identity is being look at from a different prospective, two overlooked newly elements …show more content…
But what can they do? If he or she have any useful art, he or she is welcome; and if he/she exercises it, and behaves well, he or she will be respected by all that know him (Friedman, pg1).” What he meant was that, being identify as an American has nothing to do with an individual religious believe, ethnicity, or status. Even though other countries might wonder if American have their own culture or view us as having no cultural, because of how diverse we are. Some refer to us as the “50-50” nations because of irreparably Separation between the red and blue political states. But because we are not only a nation comprised of immigrants of various vintages, we are uniquely able to integrate those immigrants and separate heritages into the American cultural. Sharing a set of political and philosophical commitments, these shared factors all together mode what we now called the United
What’s American identity or distingue a pride Americans, from the rest of the world? How do we identify ourselves and how other identify us? These are questions that we will need to answer to find our truth American identity. These questions become more and more difficult to answer, as America grow more diverse or as the number of immigrants from all around the world continuous to sky-rocket. Unlike other countries, since the 18th century after the American declaration of independence; The American identify have not been based off people’s racial, religious and ethnical identities. According to ezinearticle.com, previously the definition to what an American identity was at the time have focused only on liberalism and ethnoculturalism. This just means that America was identify as a land of freedom and opportunity, but was mostly looked at as a nation of white Protestants. On the other hand, in today society American identity is being look at from a different prospective, two overlooked newly elements …show more content…
But what can they do? If he or she have any useful art, he or she is welcome; and if he/she exercises it, and behaves well, he or she will be respected by all that know him (Friedman, pg1).” What he meant was that, being identify as an American has nothing to do with an individual religious believe, ethnicity, or status. Even though other countries might wonder if American have their own culture or view us as having no cultural, because of how diverse we are. Some refer to us as the “50-50” nations because of irreparably Separation between the red and blue political states. But because we are not only a nation comprised of immigrants of various vintages, we are uniquely able to integrate those immigrants and separate heritages into the American cultural. Sharing a set of political and philosophical commitments, these shared factors all together mode what we now called the United