Americanness is the quality or characteristic of being American. Speaking proper English and living in the U.S.A is also being Americanness. People that define themselves as an American by speaking English and do what other Americans should do. For example, watch English shows or read American magazines. In my opinion and my family's you can't really defines americanness for AmericanS was made by different cultures clashing together. There are degrees of americanness in the eyes of society. For example, in tangs essay tangs mother English was not very good, because some people couldn't understand it. Tangs tells us how some could understand nothing, some a bit, and others nothing at all. Tangs define her mother as an American because her mother
