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What Makes An American?

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What is an American? One may say an American is just someone who gets to live free in America, but it is so much more than that. at American is not just a single person but instead it’s everyone as a whole. It’s not who we are as a person but who we are supposed to want to be. An American is everything beautiful.
When I think of America I can’t help but think of the song by Katharine Bates, “America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown the good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!”
This song explains a lot of what America is which in turn explains what an American is. We are the ones who help protect this Earth God gave to us. He is our protector, but we are the Earths protector. If giving a seed we are supposed to plant it, for it will grow. We are here to help others in need of help. We as Americans are supposed to be there for each other no matter what race, or religion we are. We are all one in the same. Americans are the people who accept all of the flaws in everyone and everything and find love in it anyway.
Our history is what helped make us as Americans who we are today. not all of our history was good: the wars, slavery, etc., but we have come a long way. With those horrible things that happened we were like children just learning from the mistakes we made in life to form a better American. I disagree with slavery 100% it is inhumane, but if we didn’t already go through the years of having slaves then perhaps 10 years from now we would. It was

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