Americans...they really happy and confident?

Question

Or it is just because Americans are, in fact deep in side, very insecure and uncultivated, they act very big and positive??
let me know wat u think, please be honest and intelligent...not red necks responces plz.

Answer 1

We are as confused and frustrated as ever! HAha! Our opinions, beliefs and attitudes will vary as much as our cultural diversities do. We are a country of mixed cultures, morals and ideas. And there are alot of people unhappy with our leader and our reputation in the worlds eyes now days. We will recover though, we are not all as blind as we may seem. And we still have the right to speak our minds!

Answer 2

Its not possible to make on short statement here that applies to all Americans. There is a broad range if confidence and cultivation.

There are definitely a lot of Americans who think this country made a really bad turn for the worst in the last 8 years or so. We think its largely due to the Bush adminstration's manipulation of fear. I don't think that Bush and Al Qaida are in anyway actually cooperating, but I do think that Bush has used the threat of terrorism to gain more power and to make policy changes that favor him and his cronies.

Answer 3

It just depends on the person like anywhere else in the world.

Some Americans are happy and confident and some aren't.

I don't think Americans are any more happy and confident than Canadians, or Dutch, or British.

Answer 4

Uncultivated? Look in an American history book or at our constitution.

Answer 5

Well brother if you ever visited my house you would find out.

Answer 6

Racism in the United States has been a major issue in the country since before its founding. Historically dominated by a settler society of religiously and ethnically diverse whites, race in the United States as a concept became significant in relation to other groups. Traditionally, racist attitudes in the country have been most onerously applied to Native Americans, African Americans and some "foreign-seeming" immigrant groups and their descendants.

Racism against Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans:

Racism against Arab Americans has risen proportionately with tensions between the American government and the Arab World. Edward Said recalls how an Ivy League graduating class in 1973 (just weeks after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War) wore Arab dress in racist mockery. Racism spiked during the 1979 Tehran embassy hostage crisis, the 1991 Gulf War and the Oklahoma City bombing (despite the lack of an Arab connection). Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States, discrimination and racialized violence has markedly increased against Arab-Americans and many other religious and cultural groups. In 2001, an Indian-American Sikh businessman, Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot to death in Mesa, Arizona in a racially-motivated incident, as the victim's turban and beard - required symbols of Sikhism - invoked a perceived connection to Osama bin Laden or Iraq.

In Houston, Texas, political involvement of the Arab, Muslim, and South Asian American community have resulted in the election of a Pakistani American, Masur Javed (M.J.) Khan, to a district seat on the Houston City Council. It seemed that the political climate for Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans was impossible; however Khan, a realtor, was commended by former mayor Lee P. Brown for his activism in the Pakistani and Muslim-American community regarding hate crimes against South Asian Americans. Although Khan is currently an incumbent in a city council district (representing 1/9th of the City of Houston since there are nine geographical districts and five at-large council-members), the 2005 election to fill outgoing at-large council-member Gordon Quan led to a Desi candidate, Jay Kumar Aiyer (a Houston Community College trustee of Asian Indian descent), to campaign for Quan's vacated council seat. During the 2005 runoff election with Democratic National Committee delegate Sue Lovell, alleged race-baiting occurred where a Lovell supporter was accused of making anti-Asian Indian remarks, which was denied by the individual in question. Aiyer lost to Lovell by 600 votes in the December 10, 2005 runoff election; because of the Lovell campaign increasing their grassroots base, there are a few in the grassroots community who suggest that Aiyer's endorsement from prominent Houston-area Democrats (including former mayor Lee P. Brown) was no match for grassroots politics in the City of Houston. Although Aiyer lost the runoff election, he was appointed as the current board president of the Houston Community College System in January 2006.

Minority racism:
Minority racism is sometimes considered controversial because of theories of power in society. Racialist or racist thinking among minority groups does occur. Some racism may be towards other minority groups, such as conflicts between blacks and Koreans (notably in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots) or between blacks and Jews (such as the riots in Crown Heights in 1991) in various urban environments, new immigrant groups (such as Latinos) or even towards whites.

There has been a long running racial tension between African-Americans and those of Mexican ancestry. .There have been several significant riots in California prisons where Mexican inmates and African-Americans have targeted each other particularly based on racial reasons. There have been reports of racially motivated attacks against African Americans who have moved into neighborhoods occupied mostly by people of Mexican descent. . The Aztlan movement has been described as racist. The movement's goal involves the pursuit of repossessing the American southwest. It has also been called the Mexican "reconquista"(re-conquest) whose name was inspired by the Spanish "reconquista" which led to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain
Access to United States citizenship was restricted by race, beginning with the Naturalization Act of 1790 which refused naturalization to "non-whites." Other efforts include the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1924 National Origins Act. While officially prohibited, U.S. officials continue to differentially apply laws on illegal immigration depending on national origin (essentially declining to enforce immigration laws against citizens of rich countries who overstay their visas) and personal economy (differentially awarding visas to foreign nationals based on bank accounts, properties and so on).

Wealth Creation:

Some of the institutions of wealth creation amongst American citizens were open exclusively to whites, notably land distributed under the Homestead Act and other settlement efforts in the West. Similar differentials applied to the Social Security Act (which excluded agricultural workers, a sector that then included most black workers), rewards to military officers, and the educational benefits offered returning soldiers after World War II.

Modern Hate groups:

Fundamentalist, racist, and hate groups still operate in the United States. The Ku Klux Klan, the National Alliance, Nation of Islam, National Socialist Movement (United States), New Black Panthers, Aryan Nations,Black Hebrew Israelites, Nation of Yahweh and White Order of Thule are among the institutions most commonly identified in this way. The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project counted 762 active hate groups in the United States in 2004 . SPLC and some other watch groups also list a handful of Black nationalist and Chicano nationalist groups as hate groups

There is considerable controversy regarding the Social structure of the United States and it remains a vaguely defined intellectual concept with many contradicting theories. To this day neither economists, sociologists nor any other authorities source has devised exact guidelines for classes in the United States. With the lack of set class boundaries, the interpretation of class and social status is largely left up to the individual. While many Americans believe in a three-class model that includes the "rich," the middle-class, and the "poor," In reality, American society is, however, much more economically and culturally fragmented. The differences in wealth, income, education and occupation are indeed so great that one could justify the application of a social class model including dozens of classes. A common response to the economic and cultural diversity of those in-between the extremes of wealth, those in the statistical middle class, has been to divide the middle class into three sections: the upper-middle, middle-middle and lower middle. This "five-class" model which can partially be traced to sociologist, W. Lloyd Warner, is, however, still an overly-simplified definition of the American social class system.

Despite the lack of distinctive class boundaries and the vast majority of Americans being under the belief that they are members of the middle class, certain general assumptions have been expressed by leading Social Scientists, think tanks, research institutes, and social critics. While it is generally agreed upon that the American society being as complex as it is, has a highly developed and complicated class system which plays a role in the mundane lives of all citizens, Americans often attempt to deny the existence of social class.

"We are proud of those facts of American life that fit the pattern we are thought but somehow we are often ashamed of those equally important social facts which demonstrate the presence of social class. Consequently, we tend to deny them, or worse, denounce them and by doing so we tend to deny their existence and magically make them disappear from consciousness."- Lloyd W. Warner, What Social Class Is In America


The idea of a society of classes does still persist in the United States; thus continuing to support the notion of the vast majority of Americans to place themselves in the same class, the middle class. The truth is however, that all complex societies such as the United States need an equally complex social hierarchy. Social class itself is as old as civilization and has been present in nearly every society from the Roman Empire, medieval Europe, and the Soviet Union to modern-day America. Even though the lack of set guidelines makes social class a subjective topic, certain prominent theories can be used to, at least, some extend outline the American class system.