What is an American?

What is an American?

Saying American or being an American reminds everyone that it is a freedom or

being free. Living in America and being an American is like you have opportunities

almost in everything. An American is anyone who understands that to achieve the best in

life requires action, exertion, effort. People from different places come to the American

with many reasons. They might be seeking for a better life, or work condition to make

some money, or even leave their countries just to come here to get their children to be

educated. I have seen the difference between being here and being in your own country.

It is hard to be here and not to be here because you would have to leave your everything

in order to come here. As I think of now America reminds me of various types of people

like people that are from with different races, cultures, religions, and all the other

backgrounds. In my opinion people that live in America is not as patriotic as other

countries because America became like an international country. I think Americans must

stand up for themselves and not only think of themselves and not only think of

themselves, also others too.

There are many different ways to describe what an American is. People

have different opinions about it too. As I seek from the internet there are few definitions.

One of them says that "An American is anyone who loves life enough to want the best

that it has to offer". Americans usually look for liberties and what chances in everything.

In every histories say that the origin of America is the Native Americans, which

we do not see that many nowadays. An American is from the prosperous land in the

history of the world.

Another important thing of America is the immigrants. Immigrants are the people

who come here from different countries and they usually leave everything to have a better

life in America. Coming to the United States we must follow the rules, the laws, and

everything, in order to live in America properly. However, we still cannot forget who we

are, where we are from, and backgrounds. For immigrants, it is hard to live here because

they must work hard to afford their lives.

In America there is still racism seems going on but it definitely reduced as it was

back in the days. I saw people who respect others' religions and nationalities. However,

there are others who hate other races or even the immigrants.

For me, being an American must be respectful and welcoming. We must be

respectful because we are all human beings after all. I don't want to blame people who

come here and look for opportunities because they too, want to live like others. By being

on top of everything, of course it would make people to come here and have better lives.

America is a big example for others in every ways. We must take the goods and throw

the bad sides from everything, in this case from America.