American equals diversity
When thinking of an American there is never one definition to define the whole idea, yet there is one thing that is synonymous with American and that is freedom. Freedom is also hard to define because of all the things that Americans have associated with freedom; but when looking at, what Americans do, large classifications of Americans, what Americans are not, and examples of Americans, what American means is more clear. Being an American in today’s society means being able to function in a diverse country.
What Americans do is exercise their freedoms and while exercising their freedoms they gain more control of can and cannot do. Harvey and Jellison describe making a choice between two negative decisions, “When we face decisions …show more content…
Poor caucasians are a type of American because they are a large majority of what is infamously thought of when saying American. The way poor caucasians treat other races is deleterious and is illustrated by Hughes in his poem “I, Too, Sing America”, Hughes states, “They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes.” Hughes vocalizes his frustration with the separation of the races and how poor caucasians have tried to keep minority races down with the words. The second classification of Americans is immigrant because most of what is thought of as American including the citizens are not native to America. Crevecoeur describes Americans as, “He is either an European, or the descendant of an European; hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a man, whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.” J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur showed that diversity is not only something Americans have to deal with but something Americans
When thinking of an American there is never one definition to define the whole idea, yet there is one thing that is synonymous with American and that is freedom. Freedom is also hard to define because of all the things that Americans have associated with freedom; but when looking at, what Americans do, large classifications of Americans, what Americans are not, and examples of Americans, what American means is more clear. Being an American in today’s society means being able to function in a diverse country.
What Americans do is exercise their freedoms and while exercising their freedoms they gain more control of can and cannot do. Harvey and Jellison describe making a choice between two negative decisions, “When we face decisions …show more content…
Poor caucasians are a type of American because they are a large majority of what is infamously thought of when saying American. The way poor caucasians treat other races is deleterious and is illustrated by Hughes in his poem “I, Too, Sing America”, Hughes states, “They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes.” Hughes vocalizes his frustration with the separation of the races and how poor caucasians have tried to keep minority races down with the words. The second classification of Americans is immigrant because most of what is thought of as American including the citizens are not native to America. Crevecoeur describes Americans as, “He is either an European, or the descendant of an European; hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a man, whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.” J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur showed that diversity is not only something Americans have to deal with but something Americans