Explain What It Means To Be An American Citizen

Media and Journalism sometimes ask the question: what does it mean to be an American? The straight up answer would be that an individual born with in the boundaries of the United States boarders is a citizen. This brings up questions; however, when illegal immigrants have a child with our boarder. Then do we constitute that the parents must become citizens of our country in order to stay with the child or do we deport the parents and the child, who under the constitution is an American citizen. Tough ideas to polarize and draw black and white lines about. Another trait that can make some a citizen could be their mentality. In the aftermath of the bombing of the World Trade Centers the United States has probably never been more unified as a Nation. Loyalty to this country is something that many Americans would say makes us citizens. The sense of freedom and liberty …show more content…
There are sometimes when we take our patriotism to far and this brings some critique and denouncement from other nationalities. I think that we are true to the American way even when some of us get carried away. It is so easy to get caught up in the propaganda that we are the greatest country in the world, but I would not trade the experience of growing up and learning about what it took to be the radical and inspirational nation that we have become today. Others see the great lives that can happen here and illegally come across boarders and though ports to escape hardship. While I don’t condone this act, I do think that the idea these individuals are searching for is admirable. I am glad to say I am an American and I find pride in the ability to say it. I may not always live here but, I will always know where my heart and soul are truly at home; in America, the land of the brave and home of the