American
To be an American means to have privileges, rights, and freedom. America isn’t perfect, but it is one of the only countries that have rights given to people of different diversities and gender. America does not have tremendous poverty. Instead we have choices given to us by the people who have fought and died for the American people. Without the patriots who planted the first seed in the ground and help plant the American nation we live in now who knows what America would be like now. Some may argue an American is an individual who has papers, while others argue you don’t need papers to be an American.
One of the most important and well-known facts about America is freedom. We are granted the freedom of choice in our lives and how we live. In Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, “The Four Freedoms”, Roosevelts reveals, “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.” (47) This quote demonstrates we are given freedom of speech and press that lets us give our opinions and aspects of the community we live in. The American people are also given freedom of clothes, music, and number of kids. This right of freedom in our lives is one of many rights given to us.
Equality in American is very important, and people have fought for it for years. Equality makes people more open minded about other people’s cultures and create a better nation. There are still people in America and in other countries who do not believe in a community of equality and the respect of other cultures, and that is something that is not perfect in America. In Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” Hughes explains, “O, let my land be a land where Liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, but opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.” (38) This quote defines a call of help for equality. With that way of thinking and believ...
