What It Means To Be An American Essay

What do you think about when you hear the term, American? An American flag? Cupcakes with red, white and blue sprinkles? According to google, the term American means, ¨relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants.’. Sounds pretty boring right? This definition means to be apart of the American society. To be born within the limits of America. But don't you think being an American is much more than that?

According to amacad.org, “To be or to become an American, a person did not have to be any particular national, linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism. Thus the universalist ideological character of American nationality meant that it was open to anyone who willed to become an American.” To me, being an American is more than just living in America. Being an American comes with new freedoms and new passions for things. Being able to discover places and things you have yet to know about. To be an American is to be able to vote for who I think has the right and the power to help our country, and to be able to say that I am free. But thatś the basics, right? Look up American or America, you will most likely see the words freedom or vote. But being an American is much more than just this. Freedom and having the right to vote. This is what mostly makes us Americans but there is so much

I'm an American, you're an American, my parents are Americans.We all know what this term means and who we are. We use the word so freely, but do we really know what it means? Ask a variety of people and chances are you'll get various different answers that involve freedom and our founding fathers. A big part of our freedom is our chance of beliefs. We have the freedom to believe who and what we want to. These beliefs stretch from believing in a god to believing in a