2006-10-10 12:49:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
someone who lives in america...
2006-10-10 12:50:59 · answer #1 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Are you meaning the true Americans? Or United States? This Continent is North America, ANYONE born on it is Americans Canadians, Mexicans, etc... you get the picture. Or the narrow idea only United States is America? This is the part I will assume you refer to. This Country is like no other on earth. An Englishman for example could move to France, and never be a Frenchman. Or vise versa. But, You can be any Nationality and come to here and BE an American. It is the greatest Country because we have both Freedom and Liberty.
And don't tell me you have to be white. I (and many of us) Had ancestors standing on the shore waving at your dumb azzs as you stepped into the surf!
2006-10-10 20:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by jadamgrd 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
American and "citizen of the United States" are two different concepts.
You are a citizen of the United States when you have the legal status of citizenship. There is some debate over how that status is legally acquired. The 14th Amendment would appear to be decisive on the question, but the legality of the 14th Amendment is, itself, under a shadow because of unlawful acts by the federal government pertaining to its passage and to its ratification. However, the basic point is that citizenship is a LEGAL thing, which governments can award or cancel.
That's not true, however, for being an American. Being an American is a BIOLOGICAL thing that has nothing to do with having US citizenship, or with paying taxes to the US government, or even with being born in the Western Hemisphere. You are an American if, and only if, your parents were Americans, and, of course their parents before them... all the way back to the pre-Independence American colonies.
The first Americans were European White people who came free to America, or who acquired their freedom shortly after arriving in America. Their descendants inherit the status of American in quite the same way that the child of English parents is himself English.
All Americans are White. There no exceptions. There are no African Americans. Let the Black US-residents choose their collective name, but it should not include the word American, because that word is a European word (it's Italian), and it is already claimed by Whites.
Words like American, English, Dutch, German, Swiss, Russian, French... these words don't pertain to political organizations (countries). They pertain, instead, to distinct groups of people (races). Not every citizen of Ireland is Irish. Not every citizen of the United States is an American.
The governments of nearly all countries would dearly love to replace the organic and true meaning of national designations with artificial, political meanings. Why? Because governments do not like having competitors for the loyalty of the people. The loyalty of each citizen to his kinfolk carries a potential conflict with his loyalty to the government and its laws. It is in the interest of governments, then, to destroy familial and racial loyalties, if by any means they can.
And one of the means they commonly practice is the corruption of language, attempting (for example) to make a Frenchman be anyone born inside the borders of France, rather than anyone born to the ancient breeding stock of the people of France. Or trying to make an "American" out of any featherless biped who managed to get born inside US territory.
2006-10-10 20:10:41 · answer #3 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone residing in North, Central, or South America (technically).
As for the USA bashing, it is not necessary. There are about 296 million of us living in the United States and we do not all think alike. For every person who approves of what the government is doing right now, there is MORE than one person who does not approve of it. We want to be seen as individuals, just like anyone else.
2006-10-10 21:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the united states
a person who knows 2 languages are bilingual
a person who knows 3 languages are trilingual
a person who knows 4 or more is mutilingual
and finally... a person who only knows one language is called an "american"
2006-10-10 20:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by Lee S 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A person who is born in the United States and a person becoming a citizen in the United States.
2006-10-10 19:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by D.J 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
only agreement of 6 billilons call this country american
2006-10-10 19:52:32 · answer #7 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Anybody from America.
2006-10-10 19:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well someone born in America or the USA as we call it.Can also be something made there.
2006-10-10 19:55:03 · answer #9 · answered by john h 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Someone who praises childish behavior and childish policies far into adulthood.
2006-10-10 20:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by roostershine 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a person. I am one
2006-10-10 19:54:20 · answer #11 · answered by sak60446 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋