Is America?

Question

the land or the people?

Answer 1

america is the land and americans are the people.

Answer 2

The United States comprises people of many races and many religions, all of whom have had ancestors who have spoken many different languages, from almost every corner of the world. Furthermore, a person may come to the United States from anywhere in the world and become an American and be fully treated as an American in the eyes of the law after acquiring citizenship. And while there may be individuals who say that so-and-so is not a “real” American because of his race, religion, or original language, this is a “particularist” attitude that runs counter to the general spirit and principles upon which the United States of America was founded.

What, then, makes an American, since it is clearly neither linguistics, nor religious faith, nor racial background? The most frequent response is that someone is an American who has been born in the United States or who has immigrated to the United States and become a citizen through a naturalization process.
I myself had reason to think about this only about five years ago, when my wife became a U.S. citizen. She was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to the United States only around ten years ago, shortly before we were married. We went to the designated location where she was to take an oath of allegiance. She stood up with approximately 100 other people and raised her right hand.

The faces represented people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I listened intently to the words each person repeated after the presiding judge. There were no references to race, religion, language, or cultural customs and traditions. Loyalty was not demanded of them for any amber waves of grain or purple mountains' majesty from sea to shining sea. What stood out to me were the following words in that oath:

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiances and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereign, to whom I or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic....
The oath did not require a person to forsake his native language or customs or religion. It did not demand that he speak only English in any social or business setting. It did not require him to believe in any particular religion. And it certainly did not make reference to any particular ethnic or racial groups as being the only “true” Americans.

The core allegiance that was demanded of the person becoming an American citizen was his support for and defense of the Constitution of the United States.

Answer 3

I dont really understand your question, or your implication. America is a country like all other countries. No more, no less. Yes people live here, and it is our country.

Answer 4

Professor Ca is right, must be top answer, America is an idea.

Answer 5

América is a continent with a lot of countries.
Whether usage of America or the Americas is preferred, American is a self-referential term for many people living in all of America. However, most of the English-speaking world (including Canada) uses the word to refer solely to a citizen, resident, or national of the United States of America.
But American is somebdy living in any of these countries. More than 30.
Various languages are spoken in the Americas. Some are of the European origin, others are spoken by indigenous peoples or are the mixture of various idioms like the different creoles.

Spanish - spoken by approximately 360 million in many nations, regions, islands, and communities throughout the two continents.
English - spoken by approximately 325 million people in the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Guyana and many islands of the Caribbean.
Portuguese - spoken by approximately 185 million in Brazil
French - spoken by approximately 12 million in Canada (mainly in Quebec), the Caribbean (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique); in French Guiana; and in Acadiana (a francophone area in southern Louisiana, United States).
Antillean Creole - spoken by approximately 1.2 million in the Eastern Caribbean (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Saint Lucia) and French Guiana.
Haitian Creole - creole language, based in French and various African languages, spoken by 7.8 million in Haiti.
Guaraní (avañe'ẽ) - native language spoken by approximately 6 million people in Paraguay, and regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.
Nahuatl - native language of central Mexico with 1.5 million speakers.
Mapudungun (or Mapuche) - native language spoken by approximately 440,000 people in Chile and Argentina.
Cree - Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 50,000 speakers across Canada
Inuit - native language traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.
Aymará - native language spoken in the Andes, especially in Bolivia.
Dutch - spoken in the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and Suriname
Quiché and other Maya languages - native languages spoken in Guatemala and southern Mexico.
Quechua - native language spoken in southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwest Argentina.

Bye.

Answer 6

right about now we are the land of all people, whether their are enemies or not.

Answer 7

an idea, actually

We're too divided ideologically to be a "people."

We must appreciate the wisdom of Eddie Griffin in "Undercover Brother"

Answer 8

Democracy

Liberty

Intellect

Leader

I can say the other side also =ly