Merriam-Webster Dictionary says that an American is: 1) A person born, raised or living in the U.S. 2) A person born, raised or living in North or South America. 3) A citizen of the U.S.
Do you the people agree with this? I want to know.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur a farmer, author, immigrant, diplomat and Canadian militiaman was also a colonial settler in the U.S. before there was a U.S. He married, had a home in what became New York and travelled throughout New England and Canada before returning to Europe.
He described an American in his essays published in the late 1700s Letters From an American Farmer. Crevecoeur said:
“They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race now called Americans have risen…I could point out to a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds…Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.” – From Letter III. What Is an American
Do you the people agree with this? I want to know.
(Genetic testing has proven that many other races mixed too: Native American, African, Spanish, Etc. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/genetic-study-reveals-surprising-ancestry-many-americans)
From this example one could argue that American is a race and not a nationality. American may be the first race without nationality since nations formed in history? What do you think?
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