Wednesday, November 12, 2014

what is an american?



An American is a person that is a united citizen to America, But that’s what every person thinks just because we were born in the US doesn’t make us Americans and just because our parents were born in America doesn’t make us white American people. I believe there is a difference between being in America and being an American. There is more to just being an American, there are all kind of history.

Being in America is one thing, to be in America you have to respect the laws, but you get freedom. The reason why we have laws is because some people in America take advantage of it and tend to do dense things. For example selling drugs, shootings, rape, kidnapping, etc… I feel that these people don’t deserve to be in America, there are people out there that have suffered with slavery, or immigrants that cropped our farms and don’t get the freedom. I say this because they sacrifice their selves for us, and we don’t thank them or appreciate them, even the African Americans that suffered through slavery.

Being an American is someone who demands what they want. Sometimes I think the four fathers were the people who beat fair people; America was built on blood, slavery and lies. The blood was built on a land where it was originally Native American. This was the blood that was part of Americas upcoming. 

Also the slavery was when the African Americans were taken away from Africa to “free them” to work for them and become slaves and get an amount of money a day, or most of the wages that was nowhere after taking a family. This situation is compared to the immigrants that came to the United States to be freed and make money by farming but to those immigrants it felt like slavery they were only getting paid a certain amount of money.
 

Everyone has suffered throughout life but there are certain people that have been through hell. My point is that I find it unfair that they treat African Americans, immigrants or Hispanics, and Muslim people, they always have to be so stereotypical with a certain race, and they have to pay the most consequences. We all are Americans! And we should all be treated equally the same, even if you are a Jew, Russian, Italian, Korean, etc… You are American.

1 comment:

  1. In the first paragraph i do not get why criminals should not be in America when their are other criminals in other parts of the world as well. I like how your thesis is clear about what you feel/think it means to be an American.

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