Are Americans any longer a common people?

Question

I am doing a research paper about this topic and if anyone knows any goods sources that i can use to anwser this question, that would be awesome. or if you can give me some more ideas about how i can expand this paper, that would also be great.

I already have some ideas.. I dont think americans are a common people any more.
i wanna talk about seperation of class, like how the middle class has been shrinking.
i wanna talk about the differences between "red and blue" states and how that seperates americans, like the whole gay marriage conflict. I want to talk about how america is a melting pot.

I also want to refute the assumption about how "america came together after 9-11"

I have some ideas but im kind of confused... i dont know if i can expand this topic to 10 pages. I really need some help ppl!!!

Answer 1

Anyone old enough to know how it was say 50 years ago here may agree that America is in decline. That has less to do with race than with spiraling crime and diminishing freedom. Historically all societies have survived by keeping their criminal element in check, and when that failed they became subject to the criminal until they could no longer support his growing demands, and found themselves victims of the very element they in innocent ignorance tried to minimize. I spent my young years in a northeastern city of 30,000 where people seldom even took the keys out of their cars at night, and every street could be walked at any hour of the day or night, including even the darkened alleys. Crime was simply not tolerated, those who tried were removed without ceremony. The social experiment which began with the baby boomers (including me) in one way can now can be seen as a failing proposition from the beginning, if one looks at a graph of crime in proportion it's clear that the upward curve began at that very time. We cannot look back with our idealized eyes and lionize it's proponants while continuing to ignore facts much longer. It's so easy to idolize John and Bob Kennedy for instance while ignoring the fact that not only were they much beloved, they were also the most hated men on earth. I happen to like them too, but I must acknowledge for the sake of fairness that they were the most devisive force in America since president Lincoln. The point is, we're either going to deal with both sides of these issues or we're going to fail as a society. The Scary thing is that we believe (arbitrarily) that we're making progress toward becoming a colorless middleclass nation, while at the same time ignoring the element among us who are being disinfranchised by our movement and are becoming more dissatisfied by the day. About two years ago I had the sobering experience of overhearing a conversation concerning a white racist organization most of us thought was more or less dead, and was hit like ice water to realize that it is not, it has instead become more sophisticated, and appears to have a definite agenda. When I (apprehensively) reported what I had heard, I was told "yes, we know that"! I left the meeting with an uneasy feeling. Things may not be what they seem. I've outgrown politics enough to see that we're becoming more polarized with every election. We must not reach the point of no compromise, but I'm afraid I see things looking more that way. When each side see's the activist's of the other side as criminals maybe it's time to forget the scholarly debates over theoretical ideologies and engage in real world dialogue. "America is not a melting pot, it's a salad bowl", viva la coloures. Alex Haley.

Answer 2

The Melting Pot descritpion was one of literary valuye, no more.

911 proved that people did not believe that 911 was an ourside job, and the recent elections showed that Bush's Iraq war is disapporved of because of his false premise of war against Iraq and connection to 911.


Agfter 911, the ecomony was terrible, because Buish and Co. raided the treasuring little by little, giving rich huge tax breaks, while cutting massively for the poor. Common man in the USA saw this to be anti-american. In 2004, NY went 75-25 against Bush, and only red state illegal electyions and elecytroinc voting machiones tampering alklowed Bush and second term.


Problem with this research is you will have to find groups which knew of the 911 conspiracy. Try researching www.copvcia.com archives. try archinving www.truthout.com, www.legitgov.org.

Answer 3

Could start with the president who's ideas have been one of most polarizing one in rescent years. He takes hard liner approach on politics, ethics/science issues and doesn't like to compromise and that trickles down to his citizens. It's not that country is actually that divided which I'm not sure of but it is true during election times and other important discussions 'wedge issues' like stem cell, torture, war on terror/ Iraq drives people a part in this country. I think it's partly due to leaders who lack leadership and patience to look for common ground and completely unwilling to compromise or corporate to solve problems. It's either their way or high way. This approach has been extremely polarizing and you see it all over media and town forums.

Answer 4

I think you already have enough ideas for a 3000 word paper.

You need to thoroughly read and research your three ideas.

Once you have read as much as you can, you can write the main body of the paper.

You then have more of an idea as to what you can have as an introduction and conclusions will be.

You can also make some reccomendations.

Answer 5

with all the immigrants, America is changing fast