Individualism In My America Essay

One of the greatest creations in the history of mankind was the creation of America. America is land of the free and home of the brave. The people who live in America are free to be themselves even if others do not agree. A famous quote from Emerson’s story “Self Reliance” is “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” This quote is telling the people to trust themselves and make their own decisions, stop being influenced by others to make their decisions. In America people are always influencing others but the people do not have to listen, they ultimately will always chose their own decision by their self-thoughts. My America is shaped and revolves around the idea of individualism.
To begin with America tolerates individualistic people. Before America a long time ago there was people who would be misunderstood. People would be punished for being misunderstood. People were not allowed to be different they all had to have the same beliefs or there would be punishments for them. People such as “Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . . .” During the time these guys were alive it was a crime to be misunderstood they would be punished or killed for believing in other things than the population of people. Later in time people
Claude Fischer in his article “Sweet Land of Conformity” speaks about Americans not being as individualists as they think. Fischer states ““Americans consistently answer in a way that favor the group over the individual. In fact we are more likely to favor the group than Europeans are.” This is saying that people in America are more for the group than themselves. In reality Americans have the choice and do whatever will work out better for themselves in situations. The ability to be an American citizen is a blessing, we are free to do what we want and be