The American Identity Crisis

The united States of the States draws its strength from its interlocking ethnic and cultural diversity. with this diversity the States is always changing, evolving, into a more cultur every(prenominal)y enriched country by the year. This dissolve lav of cultures begs the question who amongst us is an Ameri quite a little. The nuanced disposition of this question has given birth to the theme personal identity Crisis. A crisis which has made America question its very ideological foundation. The answer to this question is unrestricted due to subjective nature of the question. An Ameri preserve is not a single image or state of being rather it is a melting pot of cultures and ideologies while still corroborate a central idea of freedom and democracy.\nTransitioning from one culture to another is a trying experience and one that can cause a raft of confusion particularly to novel children. Richard Rodriguez can attest to that circumstance in his piece story of a Bilingua l pincer. Here Richard feels that in meet an American he is losing his Mexican culture. This perspective however can be seen to be unfaithful when one looks at the forefront of view of Peter Ferrara, an chap professor at George stonemason University of Law in a commentary on National Review. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there be more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only contravention is that in America they are free to worship as each of them choose. Americans welcome plurality from all lands, all cultures, all religions, because they are not afraid. They are not afraid that their history, their religion, their beliefs, get out be overrun, or forgotten. That is because they go through they are free to pass on to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as each of them choose.  As Professor Ferrara expertly points out, an American is not someone who gives up their culture and replaces it with Ameri canism rather it is a combination of the two cultures preserving aspects of both.\n...