An Essay About Being An American

There are people out there who would call themselves American. The real question is what makes someone American and how would you know. To me there are a couple ways that I would consider myself American and the first and simple one is that you were born on American soil (in the United States). Another reason is that if you look like you are from America and the last one is that if you have the freedom that Americans have. The definition of being American differs from each person that you talk to about.

My dad has been and lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina which is South America. He tells me lots of stories about the time he was living down there and last year I asked him a question about being America and he gave me an answer that was not what I expected to be the answer. The answer was that if you told a South American that he wasn’t American he would probably get the snot beat out of you. I started to think about sports and men’s soccer and I believe that they have pride in being American just not the American that we think about. So …show more content…
To have a birth certificate that says born it the U.S. would mean that you are an American. In the past our family desisted to have exchange students in our house and that was really cool because I remember the 2 main ones. The one I will talk about is from Spain and his name is Dany. So he was born in Spain and loves it there but he would always say that he was never going to live there because he liked Spain more. Now that I’m a little smarter I thought about Dany and not wanting to be American and I think if he were born in the U.S. that he would have liked to be American. These ties into the next part about being American. It’s a given if you are an American then you have to be patriotic to your country. It’s not that hard to respect troops that fight for us and so celebrate by lighting fireworks off on the 4th of