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Submitted by robinx on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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America
Americans. What are they? Who are they? What exactly is an American and what exactly is America? These are questions people rarely contemplate. These two words are axioms to almost everyone. People have a variety of interpretations of these two seemingly simple words. America and being "American" actually mean many things.
"America" is an area. It is a mass on the Earth. As it happens, two continents on Earth are named North and South "America." Therefore, "America" is the greatest of all subjects for a researchers like me , in the first place because of its infinite space and depth and variety, and also because it is ultimately founded upon an idea. The idea, originally phrased in some noble document drawn up by a few rather conservative English gentleman-farmers, is that on this continent there might arise the world's first successful multinational and secular democracy. Profiting by the stupidity of European monarchs, its early leaders were able to buy the Midwest from the French and then Alaska from the Russians, both at knockdown prices. Profiting from the stupidity of later European statesmen, the United States did very well indeed out of two world wars and emerged as the only serious global and imperial power in human history. Even the least superstitious American often has a smidgen of belief in the idea of providence; the notion that this is a lucky country, if not a divinely favoured one.
Its is Superpower, the most industrialized country, a place where almost all culture can be found, a country which claim to be the greatest success history of the modern world. A country which introduced the world the right to the pursuit of happiness, free speech, automobiles, airplanes, rock and roll music, movies and a lot more. A place which has everything and considered as a haven to the people in the poor countries. A place where you can find everything you want , a place of dollars. A place of joy a great eutopia for someones
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