What makes an American an American by Scaredheart

What makes an American an American?
‘Land of the free and home of the brave’ –Star Spangled Banner. America is often viewed as a place of refuge, a land where people can escape injustice and harm. America is viewed as a place where you can express yourself without fear, a place of wonder and love of country and place of dreams. America is in reality, a place where yes, there is freedom and love and justice. But what people usually do not see until they get here is the dirty side to America. America can be compared to a commercial, what you see is not always what you get.
America is a place where you can make it to the top, where if you try hard enough you will reach the top. No doubt in your mind. America is the country where you can make it so far, and never fall. It has a fair government, a president that cares about your well fare. Upright and just, ‘we the people’ decide what goes and stays. Because America is united, or that’s what we say. In all honest truth, the government in corrupt and selfish, the president is only a face, and no matter how hard you try, you can only go so far if you’re not crushed. People will attempt to fill you with words about ‘shooting for your dreams’ but there is many things in your way. It’s not the golden cities and lands that are talked about; America is as bad if not worse than almost any of the other countries in the world. America has more freedom and justice, but also just as much corruption and injustice.
America is also a place of wonder, the bright lights of Holly Wood or the big apple New York. From the east coast to the west, from North to South, no matter where you go in America you’re looking at a wide range of culture and thinking. Theres the Trends, the Trend starters, you have the artisans, the scholars, and the students. There’s a wide mass of youngsters that have the potential to do wonders, and those that do not naturally have learn to have it. People are inspired by family, faith, friends, leaders, and their own hearts. There’s freedom to speak your mind, you have the power to express yourself without being beat back. People can be so different but so alike in one place, a place where different is good and attempted on a daily basis. But along with difference being accepted it is also shunned, people who are ‘Taboo’s’ are often looked down upon, where there is a accepted amount of diversity anything that over blows that is not allowed. Often thing such as body pericings, tattoos, Gothic trends, gory images on clothing, ect., ect. . Thing as such are looked down upon for a few generations, but after that they become the norm.

My own opinion of America is thus-
One, Amricans are made up of selfish, giving, greedy, loving, ignorant, intelligent, wonderful, horrid, and dastardly human beings. Americans take in vain their freedoms, but at the same time make the best use of them. America has it’s wonderful moments, and is terrible moments. There’s a wide mix of people, good and bad. America is wonderful and horrid at the same time, there are many problems about it that need to be fixed, there are many close minded people that need to open up but there is also many good traits about the people.
Two, Americans have room to improve. By all means we can become more educated, we can work on working together, we can work on love and faith and honesty. There can be work done on the system that is now corrupt and there can be work done on the government. Honestly, I think that the people that run America might have came from a hard working small town, but they have spent so long in the higher up office’s that they might just have forgotten what it’s like to miss a important school even with their kids because you have to work, or what it’s like to look at the bills and wonder if you can pay them. Maybe they can’t recall hearing the abusive parents or husband or wife beating someone next door and wondering what you should do about it. I don’t think they take enough time to care about PEOPLE instead of NUMBERS. That’s what’s wonderful about the small towns of America, you know who lives next to you and you care for them.

So, what makes an American and American? Maybe it’s the love, or lack of love. Maybe it’s the faith, or the trust in each other. Maybe it’s the freedoms, or how they use them. I can’t pin point it, but I do know that an American is not where you are born, what language you speak, or how well you can write or read. It’s how you live and what you say and your ability to have your own views and express them without fear. That’s what makes an American an American.