Pros And Cons Of Being Proud To Be An American
What is an American?
Before 1776 America was not a free country. The British government had controlled America. But on July 4th, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed, which states that the thirteen American colonies were independent and was no longer controlled by the British. A quote that John Quincy Adams said was, “It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free”. In this quote Adams is talking about how America fought for their lives so that America could be free. One should be proud to be an American. To be considered an American one must still fight to be an American as well as fighting for one’s beliefs. then being diverse, along with being free.
The first way to be an American is one must still fight to be an American. As stated before America fought the British to be free but after …show more content…
But that is not the case like in the text Two Ways to Belong in America states, “who have lived in the United States for some 35 years…I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship (3, Mukherjee). Bharati was not born in America she was born in Calcutta, India. She then earned her citizenship in American and is now considered an America. Just because a person is not born in a certain place doesn’t mean they are not considered that. As you look at everyone in America, everyone was not born in America, but still considered an American. But might just need to put a little bit more effort into it, but in the end still considered as an American. In the text A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood explains Rodriquez as a Spanish-speaking Mexican American. His family is from Mexico but now his family is considered an
Before 1776 America was not a free country. The British government had controlled America. But on July 4th, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed, which states that the thirteen American colonies were independent and was no longer controlled by the British. A quote that John Quincy Adams said was, “It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free”. In this quote Adams is talking about how America fought for their lives so that America could be free. One should be proud to be an American. To be considered an American one must still fight to be an American as well as fighting for one’s beliefs. then being diverse, along with being free.
The first way to be an American is one must still fight to be an American. As stated before America fought the British to be free but after …show more content…
But that is not the case like in the text Two Ways to Belong in America states, “who have lived in the United States for some 35 years…I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship (3, Mukherjee). Bharati was not born in America she was born in Calcutta, India. She then earned her citizenship in American and is now considered an America. Just because a person is not born in a certain place doesn’t mean they are not considered that. As you look at everyone in America, everyone was not born in America, but still considered an American. But might just need to put a little bit more effort into it, but in the end still considered as an American. In the text A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood explains Rodriquez as a Spanish-speaking Mexican American. His family is from Mexico but now his family is considered an